Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, known to many as ‘Punch’, dies at home in Southampton, New York, after a long illness One of America’s most famous newspaper publishers, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, whose family owns the New York Times, died on Saturday at the age of 86. Sulzberger was one of the “gray lady’s” best known executives. His tenure in charge of America’s best-known newspaper spanned a period of vast and dynamic changes in the media industry. His son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr, is the current publisher of the paper, overseeing the traumatic adjustment to a digital world that began at the end of his father’s period of control.

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