Tom is an Associate Managing Editor at The New York Times, responsible for the news report on digital and print platforms and for maintaining a 24-hour news environment. He is responsible for overseeing story selection for the digital sites and Page A1 of the newspaper, as well as strategic thinking about how to maximize search and social media.
He was promoted to the newly created position in 2010 after eight years as Sports Editor for a 60-person department. He led it transition from focusing almost exclusively on New York print readership to one that included a growing national and international audience, concentrating on investigative and enterprise reporting and big-event coverage. As part of that effort, the department became a newsroom leader in digital-first publication, multimedia, blogs and social media.
He hired and cultivated reporters whose coverage set national agendas, including Alan Schwarz, whose reporting on concussions won the George W. Polk Award in 2010 and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, Juliet Macur, whose coverage of Lance Armstrong raised questions about his use of performance-enhancing drugs years before he confessed, Michael S. Schmidt, who continues to do groundbreaking reporting on doping in baseball even as he has moved on to covering the Justice Department and John Branch, who won the 2012 Pulitzer for feature writing for his report on a fatal avalanche in the Cascade Mountains.
He joined The Times in 1993 as a News Editor after working at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Pittsburgh Press, The Annapolis Capiital and The Delaware Gazette in Ohio.
