Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, the son of the New York Times publisher Arther Ochs Sulzberger Jr., will leave his reporting job at The Oregonian to join the Times.
It is believed that Sulzberger's move to the Times marks an effort to keep the landmark paper under family control. It has been reported recently in New York Magazine and Vanity Fair articles that there are concerns about who would succeed Sulzberger Jr.
Sulzberger, 25, spent two years at The Oregonian after working as an investigative reporter at the Providence Journal following his graduation from Brown University.
There was no official announcement of Sulzberger's move to the Times. The news came from a source in the Multnomah County government in Oregon, which Sulzberger covered while at the Oregonian. It is unknown what role Sulzberger will take at the Times.
But according to a 2006 Boston Phoenix article about Sulzberger while he was at the ProJo, Alex Jones, the director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of government, the younger Sulzberger was always in line for the job.
“I think that the prospects of a member of the family being the chairman and publisher after Arthur Jr. are very great,” Jones said. “I think that is the tradition of the family. I think the family believes that it is in a position of stewardship that needs to be in family hands. At the same time, that is premised on the idea that there is someone worthy."
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