Barnes to leave Times' board

NEW YORK -- The New York Times Co., facing renewed pressure from investors, on Tuesday named two new candidates for its board with strong backgrounds in finance and technology. The Times said it would nominate Robert Denham, a partner at the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, and Dawn Lepore, the chairman and chief executive of Drugstore.com Inc., as directors. They will replace Brenda Barnes, chairman and CEO of Downers Grove-based Sara Lee Corp., and James Kilts, a former chairman and CEO of Gillette Co., which is now part of Procter & Gamble Co.