New York Times The Times of the Sixties

The New York Times is regarded as the world's preeminent newspaper. Its news coverage is known for its exceptional depth and breadth, with reporting bureaus throughout the United States and in twenty-six foreign countries. Winner of 112 Pulitzer Prizes, the Times has the largest circulation of any seven-day newspaper in the U.S.John Rockwell is a journalist, arts critic, and editor. He was raised in San Francisco and spent the 1960's as a graduate student in Berkeley. In 1972 he began writing at The New York Times as a classical music critic and reporter until 1991, as the paper's chief pop music critic during the 1970's, and from 1992 to 1994 as the paper's first European cultural correspondent. From 1994 to 1998 he served as the first director of the Lincoln Center Festival. He returned to the New York Times to become the editor of the paper's Sunday Arts and Leisure section. In 2004 he was named the chief dance critic, and retired at the end of 2006. He has published four books, on American music, Frank Sinatra, and Lars von Trier as well as a journalistic compilation.