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The race to replace Joe Kahn; Anna Wintour’s celeb packed dinner
Lachlan Cartwright
June 03, 2025
New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger leaves the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, DC June 14, 2021. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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In tonight’s edition we dive into who could be the next Executive Editor of The New York Times ahead of publisher A.G. Sulzberger’s exclusive invitation only BBQ this weekend.
Also tonight Ezra Klein’s response to rumors he’s involved in an “Eyes Wide Shut” NYT “internal relationship drama.”
Plus a top Vanity Fair editor is laid off as the contenders for the Global Editor in Chief job narrow (and Anna Wintour hosts a celeb packed dinner).
Mentioned tonight: Kathleen Kingsbury, Ben Smith, Carolyn Ryan, Marc Lacey, Dick Stevenson, Elisabeth Bumiller, Matea Gold, Philip Pan, David Leonhardt, Nestor Ramos, Patrick Healy, Adrienne Carter, Pui-Wing Tam, Ellen Pollock, Mohammed Hadi, Max Tani, Annie Lowrey, Graydon Carter, Radhika Jones, Mark Guiducci, Genevieve Smith, Carl Swanson, Ari Melber, Lawrence O'Donnell, Al Franken, Margaret Sullivan, Molly Jong-Fast, Caryn Zucker, Tom Llamas, Lester Holt, Don Lemon, Jim Acosta, Joy Reid, Emily Sundberg and Hugh Jackman.
New York Times Smoke Signals
(Exclusive.) On Saturday the best and brightest talent of The New York Times will gather in the Catskills in Upstate New York at the Sulzberger compound for the family’s annual BBQ.
It’s one of the hottest invitations within The Times and serves as an indicator of who may be in the mix to be the next Executive editor of the Grey Lady.
Guests will be served hotdogs, pulled pork and fried chicken but it’s the palace intrigue about who will replace Joe Kahn to be the next Executive editor that has Times Kremlinologists salivating.
Kahn turns 61 in August but with a hard and fast rule by publisher A.G. Sulzberger that no editor can serve past the age of 65, contenders for the top job have to start making their moves now.
And it’s the unexpected news about one top contender that has newsroom insiders buzzing. That person is…
