TIME100 AI 2026 · Leaders

A.G. Sulzberger

Publisher and Chairman, The New York Times Co.

The New York Times publisher once wrote about the last place still developing Kodachrome film, and the story became a 2017 movie.

Born
1980-08-05, Washington, D.C., United States
Now
Publisher and Chairman, The New York Times
Studied
Brown University

Interesting facts

  • Detour

    After graduating from Brown he went to the Galapagos Islands to help monitor the lobster catch and improve his Spanish.

    brownalumnimagazine.com
  • Before AI

    Spent three years as a reporter at The Oregonian, writing more than 300 stories including exposés of a county sheriff's misconduct.

    en.wikipedia.org
  • Turning point

    Was lead author of the Times' 97-page 2014 Innovation Report on going digital, which leaked to BuzzFeed News.

    en.wikipedia.org
  • Connection

    Is the sixth member of his family to run the Times since his ancestor Adolph Ochs bought the paper in 1896.

    reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
  • Numbers

    Says spending upwards of $20 million on one legal fight, the Times' AI copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft, is the cost of defending journalism.

    wired.com

Career

  • The New York TimesPublisher and Chairman2009 to now
  • The OregonianReporter2006–2009

Education

  • BA, Political science, Brown University, 2003

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