Shoreshthe drift report · all case files
Case file

A. G. Sulzberger

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american journalist who is the publisher of the new york times”. Today it says “american journalist”.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-03.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2020 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since. Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now. 1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2020

Arthur Gregg Sulzberger (born August 5, 1980) is an American journalist who is the publisher of The New York Times .1 He is the son of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. , the chairman of The New York Times Company and the preceding publisher of The New York Times . The New York Times on January 1, 2018. "A Conversation on the Future of The New York Times: Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and Dean Baquet in conversation with Jack Rosenthal" .2

This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 965129905.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american journalist who is the publisher of the new york times”. Today it says “american journalist”. Read the current article and compare.
2020Oct '232025
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.

What Wikipedia says this is

Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2020, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.

Then

american journalist who is the publisher of the new york times

Now

american journalist

Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.

← back to the drift report