The family that has published The New York Times for more than a century and a quarter.
Adolph Ochs bought a struggling New York Times in 1896 and rebuilt it on a promise of serious, independent journalism — “All the News That's Fit to Print.”
His son-in-law Arthur Hays Sulzberger and their descendants — Orvil Dryfoos, Punch Sulzberger, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., and A. G. Sulzberger — have led the paper ever since, one of the longest family stewardships in American media.
Under the Ochs-Sulzberger family the Times became the nation's newspaper of record and one of the most awarded news organizations in the world. Their continuity kept it independent through a century of change.
The family stewardship is a rare constant in American journalism.
The Ochs-Sulzberger family is based in New York. Owners and publishers of The New York Times across five generations
1896.
Adolph Ochs — bought and revived The New York Times (1896)
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