David Holmes Black (born April 9, 1946), is a Canadian media proprietor who founded and is the majority owner of Black Press Group Ltd. He serves as the company's Chairman, and previously served as its Chief Executive Officer and President. Black has served as President of the British Columbia and Yukon Community Newspaper Association, a director of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, a Governor of the Canadian Newspaper Association, and as a Director of the American Press Institute. Black was inducted the Business Laureates of British Columbia Hall of Fame in 2009. As of 2022, Black Press and its subsidiaries own more than 170 titles throughout western Canada and the United States. Early life and education Black was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Alan and Adelaide Black. He graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in civil engineering. He then obtained his MBA at the University of Western Ontario. After school, he briefly worked for Crown Life Insurance in the early '70s. In 1973, Black was hired to work as a junior business analyst in the acquisitions department at Torstar, which publishes the Toronto Star newspaper. Black Press In 1975, Black purchased the Williams Lake Tribune of Williams Lake, British Columbia for $60,000. The paper had previously been owned since 1969 by his father Alan Black and the paper's publisher Clive Stangoe. Black operated the Tribune exclusively for four years until purchasing the husband-and-wife owned Ashcroft-Cache Creek Journal in nearby Ashcroft in 1979. Black continued to purchase other newspapers over time and soon formed newspaper clusters around Victoria and Vancouver. In 1991, Black formed Sound Publishing after he purchased three newspapers on the Kitsap Peninsula in the United States. The subsidy has since managed all of his titles in Washington (state) and Alaska. In 2001, Black purchased the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. In 2010, Black purchased The Honolulu Advertiser and merged the two Hawaiian papers together to create the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. The paper is managed by a subsidy, Oahu Publications, along with all other publications Black owns in Hawaii. On September 19., 2002, Torstar announced that it was investing $20 million to acquire a 19.35% share in Black Press. At that time Black Press published 88 newspapers and had 11 printing plants. Annual revues were $240 million. In 2006, the Black acquired 119,000-circulation Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio from Knight Ridder for $165 million. Prior to buying the