NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2006--NYTimes.com announced today that Robert Larson has been named vice president, product development and management, effective immediately. Mr. Larson will supervise the site's incorporation of expanded search, interactivity and new devices such as Times Reader, which allows users to download an electronic version of the newspaper onto a portable device. He will also oversee the effort to build out key content areas and distribute news and information onto mobile platforms. Mr. Larson will report to Richard Meislin, associate managing editor for Internet publishing, The New York Times, and work closely with Vivian Schiller, senior vice president and general manager, NYTimes.com, on strategy, business and operations.

In making the announcement, Mr. Meislin said, "As NYTimes.com has evolved and grown, Rob has been one of its great creative forces -- as he showed so brilliantly in leading our recent site redesign. His new role will give him even broader opportunities to see the future and help lead us there."

Ms. Schiller said, "Rob's new position will provide an opportunity to employ his leadership and unique vision of the Web to grow the site and our digital business in key content areas, and in this way we will better meet the widely differing needs and interests of our millions of online visitors."

Mr. Larson, 37, had been director, product management and development, NYTimes.com, since May 2004. From 2000 to 2004, he was director, information architecture, where he led the team that launched Times News Tracker, the site's e-mail alert service, in 2002. Previously, he served as education editor where he led the team that developed and launched The New York Times Learning Network in 1998, after having served as community developer for The Times's New York Today site. Before that, he was deputy editor and then editor for The New York Times on America Online from 1996 to 1997. He began his career at The Times as a producer for NYTimes.com in 1996. Before joining The Times, Mr. Larson was a freelance screenwriter.

Mr. Larson received a B.F.A. degree in film and television production from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1992. He received an M.A. degree in instructional technology and media from Teachers College at Columbia University in 1996.

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