Art Brisbane, ex-Star publisher, to share folksy ways with Times readers

What’s the key to being seen as an authentic Midwesterner? Being from someplace else first.

Arthur Brisbane, the new public editor of the The New York Times, is steeped in establishment ways. He grew up in on Long Island, went to Harvard and lives on Cape Cod. His grandfather worked as an editor for the towering publisher William Randolph Hearst.

But on the East Coast, Brisbane is seen as a quintessentially Midwestern figure, all because he spent much of his career working for newspapers in Kansas City.