N.Y. Times Promotes Primis

Lance R. Primis, president and general manager of the New York Times newspaper, was named president and chief operating officer of the parent New York Times Co. on Thursday.

Primis succeeds Walter E. Mattson, who becomes vice chairman of the board, said the company’s chairman, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger.

Sulzberger said Mattson, 60, and Primis, 46, will also participate in company activities with him as members of a new office of the chairman.

The position of president and general manager of the newspaper will not be filled immediately, Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said. Instead, four business executives will report directly to him, the publisher said.