David Bessen
VP and CIO
Median News Group

D avid Bessen joined MediaNews Group as Vice President and Chief Information Officer in 2005. Dr. Bessen began his career in publishing technology as the founder of a small typesetting company specializing in academic journal publishing. Later, he worked as a support analyst and software trainer with Bestinfo, the software company that developed one of the first commercial-grade publishing systems that operated on a PC. He then worked for Management Processor Integrators as Vice President of Operations, consulting on electronic page-building projects at TV Guide and Copley Newspaper’s Fox Valley Press near Chicago. He then joined Copley Newspapers as director of Copley Information Services, where he worked for nine years, first at their Chicago-area facility and then at the corporate office in La Jolla, CA. In his former career, Dr. Bessen taught medieval and Renaissance history at several Midwestern colleges.