The New York Times company has announced that Christopher M. Mayer, SVP for circulation and operations at The Boston Globe, has been named publisher of that paper and head of the New England Media Group, effective January 1, 2010. He succeeds P. Steven Ainsley, who is retiring at the end of the year.

As publisher of the Globe and head of the New England Media Group, Mayer will be responsible for The Boston Globe; BostonWorks; GlobeDirect, the Globe’s direct mail subsidiary; the Worcester Telegram & Gazette; and the related Web sites of both newspapers. Mayer will also oversee the Company’s investment in Metro Boston, a free daily newspaper targeting well-educated young professionals.

Mayer joined The Boston Globe in 1984 in the information services department. He was named senior vice president, circulation and operations in 2008, overseeing production, advertising operations, circulation marketing and distribution.

Previously Mayer served as chief information officer and senior vice president, circulation, among other positions. He also served as SVP of Community Newsdealers, the former home delivery subsidiary of the Globe.

Ainsley was named publisher of The Boston Globe in September 2006. During his tenure the Globe has won two Pulitzer Prizes. Ainsley became president and COO of The New York Times Company Regional Media Group in 2003. Previously, he was SVP of the Regional Newspaper Group since 1999. Ainsley had been a publisher at various New York Times Company-owned newspapers since 1982. He was publisher of The Santa Barbara News-Press, in Santa Barbara, Calif., from 1993 to 1999. Before that he served as publisher of New York Times Company-owned newspapers in Alabama, Florida and Maine.

Ainsley has been a director of the New England Press Association and the Alabama Press Association and has served as a director of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association since 2004. He has also served as a director and officer of numerous local civic and charitable organizations in the communities in which he has lived.


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