Sulzberger was a
reporter with the
Raleigh Times in North Carolina from 1974 to 1976, and a London Correspondent for the
Associated Press in the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1978. Sulzberger joined
The New York Times in 1978 as a correspondent in the
Washington, D.C. bureau. He moved to New York as a metro reporter in 1981, and was appointed assistant metro editor later that year. Sulzberger is a 1985 graduate of the Harvard Business School's program for management development. From 1983 to 1987, Sulzberger worked in a variety of business departments, including production and corporate planning. In January 1987, Sulzberger was named assistant publisher. A year later, Sulzberger was named deputy publisher, overseeing the news and business departments. In these capacities, Sulzberger was involved in planning the
Times's automated color printing and distribution facilities in
Edison, New Jersey, and at
College Point, Queens, New York, as well as the creation of the six-section color newspaper. Sulzberger became the
publisher of
The New York Times in 1992, and
chairman of
The New York Times Company in 1997, succeeding his father,
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger. On December 14, 2017, he announced he would be ceding the post of publisher to his son,
A. G. Sulzberger, effective January 1, 2018. Sulzberger remained chairman of the
Times board until December 31, 2020, when he passed that position to his son as well. ==Awards and honors==