Clark Hoyt is an American journalist who was the public editor of The New York Times, serving as the "readers' representative."
He was the newspaper's third public editor, or ombudsman, after Daniel Okrent and Byron Calame.
His initial two-year term began on May 14, 2007, and was later extended for another year, expiring in June 2010.
Indeed, Hoyt would spend most of his journalism career at Knight Ridder—except for a stint at The Miami Herald as a Washington Correspondent during the 1970s — until its sale to The McClatchy Company in 2006.
[1] Hoyt is also a joint 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner; a prize he shares with fellow journalist Robert Boyd for their coverage of the Democratic vice presidential nominee Thomas Eagleton, and their uncovering of the electric shock treatment and powerful anti-psychotics used to treat Eagleton's ongoing mental health problems regarding his manic depression, which Eagleton tried to keep secret from the Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern and the press.