NYT Publisher Defends Coverage of Biden’s Age, Says It’s Made White House ‘Extremely Upset’

The White House has been unhappy with the ‘extensive’ coverage of concerns about the president’s old age.

President Joe Biden speaks about Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on his mishandling of classified documents in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House on Feb. 8, 2024. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

The New York Times’ reporting on concerns about President Joe Biden’s age has made the White House very unhappy, according to the publisher of the newspaper.

The revelation came in an interview with Oxford University’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, during which NY Times publisher Arthur Greg Sulzberger was asked if journalists should take a different approach when covering an “authoritarian candidate.”