The American publisher and philanthropist Adolph Simon Ochs (1858-1935) rose from a cultured but impoverished background to control the so-called ideal newspaper, the New York Times.Adolph Ochs was bo...
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When Adolph Simon Ochs began his journalism career in 1869, he earned $1.50 a week delivering newspapers in Knoxville, Tennessee. At his death sixty-six years later, he had built the New York Times to...
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As Rupert Murdoch continues his $60-a-share courtship of the Bancroft family and their showcase property, The Wall Street Journal, there’s been a fair amount of whining and yelping from journ...
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On the weekend of Jan. 28, Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner traveled to Las Vegas to work on plans for a Rolling Stone Hotel and Casino.
Mr. Wenner’s magazine has a long history with the ci...
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Five years from now, The New York Times is going to be an object published on newsprint—loaded onto trucks in College Point, hauled to distribution depots and stuffed into blue plastic bags. ...
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In September, New York Times publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. embraced self-sacrifice. He and company vice chairman Michael Golden would renounce stock compensation this year and the next, he ann...
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Who Says the Editors Are So Smart?
