Excellent cover story from this week’s New York Magazine on how The New York Times came back from the brink.

The Times has taken a do-or-die stand for hard-core, boots-on-the-ground journalism, for earnest civic purpose, for the primacy of content creators over aggregators, and has brought itself back from the precipice. And if that does indeed end up being the case, there’s one unlikely person who deserves most of the credit: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. Sulzberger has a great story to tell. After all, it was he who made what appeared to many to be a quixotic bet on quality at precisely the moment when the world looked like it was moving in the other direction. But after years of public excoriation, he’s highly wary of telling it. (“Think of him as an abused dog,” one of his colleagues told me. “It’ll take him a while to trust again.”)

The Kingdom and the Paywall