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LAWRENCE -- The publisher of the New York Times and chairman of the New York Times Co., Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., will receive the William Allen White Foundation's 2003 national citation Feb. 7 at the University of Kansas.
Sulzberger will accept the citation and give the annual William Allen White Day public address during a 1:30 p.m. ceremony in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union. During his visit, Sulzberger will meet with journalism students and faculty, and he will speak to the combined reporting and editing classes that produce the University Daily Kansan newspaper.
A panel of White Foundation trustees chose Sulzberger Jr. to receive the 2003 citation, presented annually since 1950 to journalists who exemplify the ideals of William Allen White (1868-1944). KU's William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications is named in honor of the nationally influential Kansas editor and publisher.
Sulzberger's father, Arthur O. Sulzberger, also received the citation in 1974. The elder Sulzberger became chairman emeritus of the New York Times Co. in 1997 after serving as chairman and chief executive officer since 1973. He also was publisher of the New York Times from 1963 to 1992. The Sulzbergers are the only father and son both to have received the award.
Sulzberger Jr. was named chairman of the New York Times Co. in 1997. As the company's senior executive, he is responsible for its long-term business strategy. Sulzberger, who became publisher of the New York Times in 1992, continues to run the company's flagship enterprise on a day-to-day basis. Over the past decade, he has shaped and implemented innovative print, broadcast and online initiatives that are enabling the company to compete successfully in the global media marketplace.
During Sulzberger's tenure as publisher, the Times has earned 25 Pulitzer Prizes and given its readers innumerable examples of momentous journalism, such as its breakthrough "How Race Is Lived in America" series, its historic new-millennium edition and its internationally acclaimed coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack in "A Nation Challenged" and "Portraits of Grief."
Before coming to the Times, Sulzberger was a reporter for the Raleigh (N.C.) Times from 1974 to 1976 and was a correspondent in London for the Associated Press from 1976 to 1978. He joined the Times in 1978 as a correspondent in its Washington bureau and worked his way through the ranks, becoming publisher in 1992.
Sulzberger earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Tufts University in 1974 and is a 1985 graduate of the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development.
Other notable recipients of the William Allen White Citation have included James Reston, 1950; Walter Cronkite, 1969; Arthur O. Sulzberger Sr., 1974; James J. Kilpatrick, 1979; Helen Thomas, 1986; Charles Kuralt, 1989; Bernard Shaw, 1994; Bob Woodward, 2000; Molly Ivins, 2001; and Cokie Roberts, 2002.
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