A key architect of the New York Times' digital transformation and author of its 2014 Innovation Report, AG Sulzberger will succeed his father Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr (69) at the end of the year.

The 40-year-old AG Sulzberger is credited with leading the paper to embrace the internet and to the launch of its paywall in 2011; earlier this year it generated more revenue from digital than print for the first time in its 170-year history. From a print circulation of about a million - mostly in metro New York - in 1997, it has grown to more than 6.5 million total subscriptions spanning nearly every country in the world.

The younger Sulzberger became publisher of the New York Times in 2018, having worked as a metro reporter, national correspondent, associate editor for newsroom strategy and deputy publisher. A graduate of Brown University, he began his journalism career as a reporter at the Providence Journal and The Oregonian.