NUEVA YORK .- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, ex editor del New York Times que llevó al periódico a nuevos niveles de influencia y ganancias durante algunos de los momentos más trascendentes del periodismo en el siglo XX, murió el sábado. Tenía 86 años.

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Sulzberger, quien era apodado "Punch" y fue miembro del Cuerpo de Infantería de Marina de Estados Unidos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y en la guerra de Corea antes de unirse al Times como reportero, murió en su casa, en Southampton, Nueva York, luego de una larga enfermedad, anunció su familia.

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  • In this 1992 photo, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger poses for a photo in the New York Times boardroom beneath a picture of Arthur Ochs, in New York. In 1896, Ochs acquired control of the New York Times. Former New York Times publisher Sulzberger, who led the newspaper to new levels of influence and profit amid some of the most significant moments in 20th-century journalism, died Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012. He was 86. (AP Photo/The New York Times Archive, Burk Uzzle) MANDATORY CREDIT

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    FILE - In this May 26, 1992 file photo, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, flanked by Washington Post Company President Katharine Graham, left, and New York Times Company President Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, after awarding them the Paris City Medal, in Paris. Sulzberger has died at age 86. The newspaper reports that his family says Sulzberger died Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, at his home in Southampton, N.Y., after a long illness. He had retired in 1992 after three decades at the paper's helm and was succeeded by his son, Arthur Jr. (AP Photo/Jose Goita)

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    FILE - This March 2, 1973 file photo shows New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger in his office in New York. Sulzberger has died at age 86. The newspaper reports that his family says Sulzberger died Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, at his home in Southampton, N.Y., after a long illness. He had retired in 1992 after three decades at the paper's helm and was succeeded by his son, Arthur Jr. (AP Photo/Anthony Camerano, File)

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    FILE - This March 12, 1973 file photo shows New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger in his office in New York. Sulzberger has died at age 86. The newspaper reports that his family says Sulzberger died Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, at his home in Southampton, N.Y., after a long illness. He had retired in 1992 after three decades at the paper's helm and was succeeded by his son, Arthur Jr. (AP Photo/Anthony Camerano, File)

  • Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

    Esta foto del 2 de marzo de 1973 muestra al editor del New York Times Arthur Ochs Sulzberger en su oficina de Nueva York. Zulzberger murió el sábado a los 86 años en Southampton, Nueva York, luego de una prolongada enfermedad. (Foto AP/Anthony Camerano/Archivo)

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    Esta fotografía de archivo del 20 de julio de 1977 muestra a Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, editor del periódico New York Times, en su oficina en Nueva York. Sulzberger murió a los 86 años el sábado 29 de septiembre de 2012, en su casa en Southampton, Nueva York. (Foto AP/Ray Howard, archivo)

  • FILE - This July 1, 1971 file photo shows New York Times president and publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, center, smiling at a news conference in New York, regarding the supreme court ruling permitting the Times to continue it's series of articles based on secret pentagon papers about U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Others in photo are unidentified. Sulzberger has died at age 86. The newspaper reports that his family says Sulzberger died Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, at his home in Southampton, N.Y., after a long illness. He had retired in 1992 after three decades at the paper's helm and was succeeded by his son, Arthur Jr. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)

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Durante las tres décadas que estuvo a cargo del New York Times, el periódico ganó 31 premios Pulitzer, publicó los llamados Documentos del Pentágono sobre la guerra de Vietnam y ganó una demanda por calumnia que estableció la primera protección constitucional para la prensa.


"Punch, el viejo capitán de la Infantería de Marina que nunca rehuyó a una pelea, era un vigoroso defensor de la libertad de prensa", manifestó su hijo y actual editor del Times, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger hijo, en un comunicado.


La renuencia de su padre a echarse atrás en las disputas sobre libertad de expresión "ayudaron a expandir el acceso a información primordial y evitar la censura y la intimidación gubernamental", agregó.