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Sam Dolnick

Sam Dolnick

American journalist, editor, and producer

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]

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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

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    "Sam Dolnick - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  2. [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.
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    of 2, Page 2. "Reading God's Mind". Brandeis Magazine. Retrieved 2021-09-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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    "Inside the 3-Way Family Contest to Become the Next Publisher of the Times". Intelligencer. 2015-08-24. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    "Lynn Golden Betrothed To Edward I. Dolnick". The New York Times. 1972-12-24. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    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.
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    Pompeo, Joe. "Sulzberger scion Sam Dolnick gets a promotion at the Times". POLITICO Media. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    New York Magazine: "Children of the Times - Who’s who in the Ochs-Sulzberger clan" retrieved September 27, 2015
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    "Are the Knicks This Good?". The New York Times. 2012-12-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    "Columbia Spectator 13 September 2000 — Columbia Spectator". spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    "The View from Here". airmail.news. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    "Sam Dolnick, Author at Village Voice Staging". Village Voice Staging. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    "NYT Reporter Sam Dolnick Receives 2012 Worth Bingham Prize". Nieman Foundation. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    "Sam Dolnick, Member of the Sulzberger-Ochs Family, Joining Times Newsroom". Observer. 2009-08-21. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    "Sam Dolnick and Jay Schreiber Named New Deputy Sports Editors at The New York Times". Observer. 2013-02-19. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    "Tomato Can Blues". The New York Times. 2013-09-18. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    "The Jockey". The New York Times. 2013-08-13. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Pompeo, Joe. "Sam Dolnick leaves Sports to tackle mobile for the Times". POLITICO Media. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    "A Note About Sam Dolnick". The New York Times Company. 2015-07-23. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  23. [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.
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    Silverstein, Jake (2015-11-05). "The Displaced: Introduction". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    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.
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    Ember, Sydney (2017-04-03). "New York Times Elevates Sam Dolnick to Masthead". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    "Sam Dolnick Promoted to Assistant Editor". The New York Times Company. 2017-04-03. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    "#2 - Sam Dolnick, Assistant Managing Editor, New York Times". Insideradio.com. 5 August 2020. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    Dolnick, Sam (2018-03-10). "The Man Who Knew Too Little". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
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    "Sam Dolnick Elected to the Pulitzer Center Board". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  31. [31]
    New York Times Company press release, "Introducing Our Senior Masthead Team" April 20,2022
  32. [32]
    "The New York Times Masthead" 2023 version
  33. [33]
    "Mother Jones reporter wins Polk for Romney story". AP NEWS. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  34. [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.
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