By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 10/01/12 8:53am

Inside the Times

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Clyde Haberman on Writing an Obituary of the Boss

The New York Times announced that Arthur Ochs Sulzberger died on Saturday morning with a 7,741-word obituary by veteran Times writer Clyde Haberman. In an email to Poynter over the weekend, Mr. Haberman described the writing process.

Mr. Haberman began working on the obit in 1997 — the same year “Punch” Sulzberger stepped down as Chairman of the Times Company (he had retired from his role as Publisher in 1992).

“It is never simple to write about the boss,” Mr. Haberman told Poynter. “But Mr. Sulzberger made the assignment as easy as could be.” Read More

By Steve Huff 9/29/12 11:01am

Obits

The New York Times

Former New York Times Publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger, Sr. Dies

Former New York Times publisher and chairman Arthur Ochs “Punch” Sulzberger, Sr., who ran the paper from 1963 to 1992, has died. The Times reports Mr. Sulzberger passed away at his Southampton  home on Saturday. The senior Sulzberger piloted the paper through the rough seas of the late 1960s and early 1970s and was primarily responsible for pulling the trigger on one of the biggest exposés of the Vietnam War, the Pentagon Papers: Read More