In 2001, Jonathan McCarthy served as the executive producer for Newsday.com. He had been there since the website’s early days, having arrived in November 1996 after a short stint at the New York Times Magazine Group, where he learned HTML and other Web skills. At Newsday.com, McCarthy tried to integrate the Web team into the main newsroom, a process that he challenging and politically fraught . He also integrated coverage for NewYorkNewsday.com, which appeared as a separate page within the main Newsday.com home page.