Sam Dolnick | |
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Education | Columbia University ( BA) |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, newspaper editor, television producer |
Employer | The New York Times |
Parents |
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Relatives |
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (great-grandfather) Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger (great-grandmother) Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg (grandmother) Arthur Golden (uncle) Michael Golden (uncle) Ben Dolnick (brother) |
Awards |
George 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]
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]
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]
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Sam Dolnick | |
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Education | Columbia University ( BA) |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, newspaper editor, television producer |
Employer | The New York Times |
Parents |
|
Relatives |
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (great-grandfather) Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger (great-grandmother) Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg (grandmother) Arthur Golden (uncle) Michael Golden (uncle) Ben Dolnick (brother) |
Awards |
George 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]
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]
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]
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