Allan Marshall Siegal (May 1, 1940 – September 21, 2022) was an American newspaper editor and journalist who worked at The New York Times for 45 years.
[1] His father, Irving, immigrated from Poland during his teenage years and managed a seltzer delivery company before becoming a landlord; his mother, Sylvia (Wrubel), was a housewife.
[1] During the 1960s, he briefly worked at ABC News (under the aegis of Peter Jennings) in 1966 but soon returned to the Times.
[1] Siegal served as the in-house authority on language, style, taste, professional ethics and practical newspapering.
He co-authored the New York Times' stylebook and its ethics manual along with designing the first computer system in the newsroom.