Jim Schachter is an associate managing editor at The New York Times, directing a range of projects aimed at expanding The Times’s footprint online and in print and leading the development of news-driven products with commercial appeal.
 
In 2010, he oversaw the relaunch of The Times's online business report at NYTimes.com/BusinessDay, a successful counterpunch to the Wall Street Journal’s introduction of a local news section in New York. His team has introduced local news pages in copies of The Times sold in the Bay Area, Chicago and Texas, forging innovative collaborations with non-profit news start-ups in those regions.
 
Closer to home, Mr. Schachter leads a pilot project, The Local, that develops hyperlocal Web sites teaming professional journalists, leading journalism schools and local residents to cover the news of everyday life. The Fort Greene/Clinton Hill Local is a collaboration with the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. The Local: East Village is a collaboration with the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University.
 
Previously, Mr. Schachter was deputy editor of The New York Times Magazine, and of the newspaper’s Culture and Business reports.
 
Before joining The Times in 1995, he was a reporter or editor for the Los Angeles Times, the Kansas City Star and the Jacksonville (Fla.) Journal. Mr. Schachter and his wife, Pamela, live in Summit, N.J. They have four children ranging in age from 10 to 23.