Sam Dolnick is an American journalist, film and television producer, and deputy managing editor for The New York Times.
[5] Through his mother, a director of The New York Times and the Smithsonian Zoo,[6] he is a fifth-generation member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family that owns the newspaper.
[4][10][11] After graduating from Columbia, he interned for Wayne Barrett at The Village Voice in 2002 and worked night shifts at The Staten Island Advance from 2002 to 2004.
[15] In addition to covering amateur cage-fighting,[16] horse racing,[17] and the Sochi Olympics,[18] he also profiled the Sinaloa cartel's 90 year-old drug mule, Leo Sharp in 2014 for The New York Times Magazine.
[1][28] In 2018, he profiled a man named Erik Hagerman who, upon learning that Donald Trump has become president, decided to cut off from all news media and live in self-imposed isolation.