New York Times’ Publisher-To-Be

Reported On Cooperstown Shooting

COOPERSTOWN – A.G. Sulzberger, who this week was named publisher-in-waiting at the New York Times, was in Cooperstown in April 2010 to cover the aftermath of the Good Friday shooting of one CCS student by another in Cooper Park.

“In this village of 2,000, where phone numbers are given by their four-digit suffixes, people remain badly shaken in the aftermath of a violent dispute that left two 16-year-old boys recovering from gunshot wounds,” he wrote in a dispatch published on April 5 of that year, four days after the shooting.

This week, Sulzberger was named deputy publisher of the eminent newspaper.  In that role, he will be prepared to succeed his father, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., publisher since 1992.

While reporting here, the younger Sulzberger, who was 30 at the time, interviewed former mayor Carol B. Waller, District Attorney John Muehl, Father John P. Rosson, the St. Mary’s pastor, Village Historian Hugh MacDougall and others.

The article appeared under the headline, “After a Shooting, Cooperstown Searches for Answers.”

Sulzberger, chosen after a selection process that included two of his cousins, is a fifth-generation descendant of Adolph Ochs, who bought the newspaper at auction in 1896.   A.G. stands for Arthur Gregg, but he will be using his initials so as not to be confused with his father.