Meet Joe Kahn, the Enigma Who Will Run the New York Times

Meet Joe Kahn, the enigma who will now run the Times.

This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Kahn at home in April. Yes, he gets home delivery. Photo: Chris Buck Abe Rosenthal, the totemic New York Times editor who published the Pentagon Papers, used to say that there was one path to the executive editor’s office — over the dead, burned, and maimed bodies of the ten other people who wanted the job. So I turned to Joseph Kahn, the new top dog at the Times , and asked whom he incinerated to get here. “I didn’t kill anybody,” he said, suppressing a sly smile. It w

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