John D. Pomfret, Key Figure in Revamping The Times, Dies at 93 As a senior executive in the 1970s, he was part of a management team that expanded the paper’s format, boosted advertising and ushered in computer technology. John D. Pomfret, right, general manager of The Times, recognized a questioner in the audience during a sales conference at the newspaper’s headquarters in Manhattan in 1979. Next to him was William Shuck, a Times advertising executive.Credit...David Chalk March 2, 2021 John D. Pomfret, who as a New York Times executive was instrumental in a watershed effort in the mid-19...