How stories are chosen for the front page of NYTimes.com
How The Times’ Home Page Gets Made
Jim Roberts, The Times’ associate managing editor and NYTimes.com’s digital news editor, is the man making most of those judgments, along with his team of editors and a home-page producer. “The front page of the [printed] newspaper has become more interpretive,†Mr. Roberts said. “It reflects more enterprise reporting, it relies less on breaking news elements of the day, and part of that is driven by the fact that so much of the day’s breaking news is covered on the Web, whether it’s our site or other sites or people on television or any other fashion.â€Â
He considers CNN.com his competition and checks its site to compare their breaking news coverage.
“I think we also are building or managing the Web site to be in a competitive world,†he said. “We’re not CNN. We don’t pretend to be CNN. But we are in competition for them for readers. We definitely want to be in tune with breaking news.â€Â
