Peter Roybal has been a product manager at Yahoo! News since June, 2005.
Areas of focus have included story, video and photo aggregation, traffic
and financial analysis, and serving as liaison to international Yahoo!
News sites. Previously he was editor of CQ.com, a subscription-based
legislative news and information service, at Congressional Quarterly in
Washington, D.C.
Roybal writes in his replies to NewsTools2008 registration questions:
“Generally, my interests revolve around engaging a mass audience with
quality journalism regardless of the format. I am also interested in
reproducible business models that can fund as many feet on the street as
possible. Finally, I think online news presents a new (and often
overlooked) opportunity to build international audiences around global
stories. Would be happy to discuss any of these topics.
“I’m always eager to meet new people and swap ideas. I would hope we will
be thinking big in terms of audience because I think sometimes the
technology oriented conversations lead toward ideas that are of interest
to a fairly narrow group of people who already consume a lot of news.
I’m mostly interested in doing more with people who read only a couple
stories a week.”