Gordon Medenica

Biography: Gordon Medenica
Gordon Medenica, formerly head of strategic planning for the New York Times Co., advised the Tierney group in its bid to purchase the papers and Web site last year. Afterward he oversaw news operations, among other duties. He was named executive vice president last November. Medenica worked at the Times in the 1980s and '90s, during the 1993 acquistion of the Boston Globe, at the time "the biggest deal ever in the newspaper industry," he said. He later became group publisher for Times sports magazines. He was president and CEO of Dorna USA, a sports-marketing company, from 1999 to 2001, going on to advise the Blackstone Group on the possible acquistion of Knight Ridder, then-owner of the Daily News and Inquirer.