Sam Dolnick

Sam Dolnick
EducationColumbia University (BA)
Occupation(s)Journalist, newspaper editor, television producer
EmployerThe New York Times
Parents
RelativesArthur Hays Sulzberger (great-grandfather)
Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger (great-grandmother)
Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg (grandmother)
Arthur Golden (uncle)
Michael Golden (uncle)
Ben Dolnick (brother)
AwardsGeorge Polk Award (2013)
Worth Bingham Prize (2012)

Sam Dolnick is an American journalist, film and television producer, and deputy managing editor for The New York Times.[1] He helped launch The Daily podcast and the documentary series, The Weekly.[2]

Biography

Dolnick was born to novelist Edward Dolnick and Lynn Iphigene Golden, who met at Brandeis University as students.[3][4] His mother is the daughter of Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg and a granddaughter of The New York Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger and his wife, Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger.[5] Through his mother, a director of The New York Times and the Smithsonian Zoo,[6] he is a fifth-generation member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family that owns the newspaper.[7] He has a brother, Ben Dolnick, who is a novelist.[8] He is also the nephew of Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha, and Michael Golden, former publisher of the International Herald Tribune and vice chairman of The New York Times Company.[8]

Dolnick graduated from Georgetown Day School, where he played basketball,[9] and received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University.[4][10][11] After graduating from Columbia, he interned for Wayne Barrett at The Village Voice in 2002 and worked night shifts at The Staten Island Advance from 2002 to 2004.[12][13]

In 2004, Dolnick joined the Associated Press and moved to Delhi in 2007 as a foreign correspondent for AP.[4] Dolnick joined The New York Times in 2009 as a metro reporter.[14]

Dolnick was promoted to deputy sports editor in 2013.[15] In addition to covering amateur cage-fighting,[16] horse racing,[17] and the Sochi Olympics,[18] he also profiled the Sinaloa cartel's 90 year-old drug mule, Leo Sharp in 2014 for The New York Times Magazine.[19] His story later became the inspiration for Clint Eastwood's 2018 film, The Mule.[20] In 2014, he left the sports desk to become senior editor of the paper's mobile team.[21]

In 2015, Dolnick was promoted to associate editor.[22][7] As associate editor, he was responsible for launching numerous digital and mobile initiatives at the Times,[23] including NYT Audio, NYT VR,[24] The Daily podcast, The Daily 360, and the TV documentary series The Weekly, where he also serves as an executive producer. Dolnick was one of three cousins in the Ochs-Sulzberger family who had been candidates to become deputy publisher of the Times and successor to Arthur Sulzberger Jr.[4] A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher's son, was named to the role in October 2016.[25]

In 2017, Dolnick was elevated to masthead as an assistant editor.[26][27] In that role, he oversees the Times' audiovisual work.[1][28]

In 2018, he profiled a man named Erik Hagerman who, upon learning that Donald Trump has become president, decided to cut off from all news media and live in self-imposed isolation.[29]

In 2019, Dolnick was elected a member of the Pulitzer Center board.[30]

In 2022 he was promoted to deputy managing editor.[31][32]

Awards and nominations

Dolnick was the recipient the 2012 Worth Bingham Prize for investigative reporting into New Jersey's privatized halfway houses.[13] He also won a George Polk Award in 2013 for the same work.[33][34]

References

  1. ^ a b "Sam Dolnick - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  2. ^ Siegel, Tatiana (2019-04-12). "Michael Barbaro and 'The Daily' Podcast Team on Launching 'The Weekly' FX Series, Working With a Romantic Partner". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  3. ^ of 2, Page 2. "Reading God's Mind". Brandeis Magazine. Retrieved 2021-09-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ a b c d "Inside the 3-Way Family Contest to Become the Next Publisher of the Times". Intelligencer. 2015-08-24. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  5. ^ "Lynn Golden Betrothed To Edward I. Dolnick". The New York Times. 1972-12-24. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  6. ^ Staff Reporter, a Wall Street Journal (1997-01-23). "New York Times Gets Trustee From the Sulzberger Family". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  7. ^ a b Pompeo, Joe. "Sulzberger scion Sam Dolnick gets a promotion at the Times". POLITICO Media. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  8. ^ a b New York Magazine: "Children of the Times - Who’s who in the Ochs-Sulzberger clan" retrieved September 27, 2015
  9. ^ "Are the Knicks This Good?". The New York Times. 2012-12-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  10. ^ "Columbia Spectator 13 September 2000 — Columbia Spectator". spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  11. ^ "The View from Here". airmail.news. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  12. ^ "Sam Dolnick, Author at Village Voice Staging". Village Voice Staging. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  13. ^ a b "NYT Reporter Sam Dolnick Receives 2012 Worth Bingham Prize". Nieman Foundation. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  14. ^ "Sam Dolnick, Member of the Sulzberger-Ochs Family, Joining Times Newsroom". Observer. 2009-08-21. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  15. ^ "Sam Dolnick and Jay Schreiber Named New Deputy Sports Editors at The New York Times". Observer. 2013-02-19. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  16. ^ "Tomato Can Blues". The New York Times. 2013-09-18. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  17. ^ "The Jockey". The New York Times. 2013-08-13. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  18. ^ Dolnick, Sam (2014-02-17). "Biathlon Penalty Loop Is Like the Dunce Cap of the Olympics". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  19. ^ Dolnick, Sam (2014-06-11). "There's a True Story Behind 'The Mule': The Sinaloa Cartel's 90-Year-Old Drug Mule". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  20. ^ Dolnick, Sam (2018-12-05). "The Long Path From My Desk to Clint Eastwood's 'The Mule'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  21. ^ Pompeo, Joe. "Sam Dolnick leaves Sports to tackle mobile for the Times". POLITICO Media. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  22. ^ "A Note About Sam Dolnick". The New York Times Company. 2015-07-23. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  23. ^ Johnson, Eric (2016-09-20). "Full transcript: New York Times editors Sam Dolnick and Clifford Levy on Recode Media". Vox. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  24. ^ Silverstein, Jake (2015-11-05). "The Displaced: Introduction". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  25. ^ Hufford, Lukas I. Alpert and Austen (2016-10-19). "New York Times Sets Up A.G. Sulzberger to Succeed Father as Publisher". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  26. ^ Ember, Sydney (2017-04-03). "New York Times Elevates Sam Dolnick to Masthead". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  27. ^ "Sam Dolnick Promoted to Assistant Editor". The New York Times Company. 2017-04-03. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  28. ^ "#2 - Sam Dolnick, Assistant Managing Editor, New York Times". Insideradio.com. 5 August 2020. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  29. ^ Dolnick, Sam (2018-03-10). "The Man Who Knew Too Little". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  30. ^ "Sam Dolnick Elected to the Pulitzer Center Board". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  31. ^ New York Times Company press release, "Introducing Our Senior Masthead Team" April 20,2022
  32. ^ "The New York Times Masthead" 2023 version
  33. ^ "Mother Jones reporter wins Polk for Romney story". AP NEWS. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  34. ^ Dolnick, Sam (2012-06-16). "As Escapees Stream Out, a Penal Business Thrives". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-05.