Leonard M. Apcar

Leonard M. Apcar became editor in chief of NYTimes.com in June 2002. As editor he directs a Web news staff of 35 producers and editors and plays a leading role in the strategic management of the Web site.

Mr. Apcar was previously assistant editor of foreign news at The New York Times since February 1998 and was responsible for feature stories, projects and investigative stories. Mr. Apcar joined The New York Times in January 1991 as assistant business and financial editor. Since then he has also served as an enterprise editor, assignment editor and chief of correspondents.

Prior to joining The Times, Mr. Apcar was business editor for The St. Petersburg Times where he launched the paper's first daily business section. From 1976 until 1989, he was a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal. During that period, he covered the automobile industry in Detroit, Congress, tax and budget, and labor issues in Washington, D.C. and banking, savings and loans and the Southwest economy in Dallas, Texas.

Mr. Apcar earned a B.A. degree, cum laude, with honors in political science from Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California in 1975 and received a M.S. degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1976.

Mr. Apcar is married, has two children and lives in Scarsdale, New York. He serves on the advisory board of The Media Center at the American Press Institute, the board of directors of the Online News Association, and the board of trustees of the Scarsdale Library.