Michael Golden

Michael Davis Golden is an American businessman, currently serving as vice chairman of the New York Times Company. Early life and education Golden was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the son of Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg and Ben Hale Golden. His mother was Jewish and his father a gentile. His mother was a daughter of long-time Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger and granddaughter of Times owner and publisher Adolph Ochs. Golden is a double graduate of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1971 and master's in education in 1974. Golden earned his master's degree in journalism from University of Missouri in 1977. He went on to receive an MBA from Emory University in 1984. Career From 1976 to 1983, Golden worked for eight years in a series of editorial and management posts at The Chattanooga Times in Tennessee.