Bay Area News Group (BANG) is the largest publisher of daily and weekly

newspaper A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as p ...

s in the

San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Go ...

, including its flagship ''

The Mercury News ''The Mercury News'' (formerly ''San Jose Mercury News'', often locally known as ''The Merc'') is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published by the Bay Area News Group, a subsidia ...

''. A subsidiary of the

Denver Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the Unit ...

-based MediaNews Group, its corporate headquarters is in

San Jose, California San Jose, officially San José (; ; ), is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 popu ...

, and publication offices in San Jose and

Walnut Creek A walnut is the edible seed of a drupe of any tree of the genus ''Juglans'' (family Juglandaceae), particularly the Persian or English walnut, ''Juglans regia''. Although culinarily considered a "nut" and used as such, it is not a true bo ...

, although the Walnut Creek location was scheduled to be closed under a 2011 restructuring. Previously known as ANG (Alameda News Group), the name changed to Bay Area News Group in 2006 after the MediaNews Group bought ''The Mercury News'' and ''Contra Costa Times'' from McClatchy Co. Most production aspects have now moved to ''The Mercury News'' facilities in

Print

The structure allows the company to share stories between its various newspapers, meaning one reporter can get the story for all the publications. BANG publishes three daily newspapers: * ''

(San Jose)'' * ''

East Bay Times The ''East Bay Times'' is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Walnut Creek, California, United States, owned by the Bay Area News Group (BANG), a subsidiary of Media News Group, that serves Contra Costa County, California, Contra Costa and Al ...

'' * ''

Marin Independent Journal The ''Marin Independent Journal'' is the main newspaper of Marin County, California. The paper is owned by California Newspapers Partnership which is in turn mostly owned by MediaNews Group.

'' Bay Area News Group's newspapers collectively cover the East Bay, South Bay, Peninsula, and Marin County. It has beat reporters covering San Jose and Oakland but none for San Francisco, where it cedes coverage to the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', its main competitor. On the other hand, the ''Chronicle'' does not cover the South Bay as thoroughly as BANG does via ''The Mercury News''. Bay Area News Group's only coverage in the North Bay is Marin County.

2011 restructuring

On August 23, 2011, the company announced the reorganization of 11 of its newspapers, with shuttering of all of its East Bay nameplates under two new publications as of November 2, 2011. The planned merger and publication reorganization was modified in October 2011, when BANG decided to scrap plans to launch the ''East Bay Tribune'' and instead consolidate its

East Bay The East Bay is the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area and includes cities along the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay. The region has grown to include inland communities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties ...

newspapers under the ''Oakland Tribune'' name. * The ''Oakland Tribune'', ''Alameda Times-Star'', ''Hayward Daily Review'', ''Fremont Argus'' and ''West County Times'' were scheduled to publish their last editions on November 1, 2011. The following day, subscribers were to get copies of the new ''East Bay Tribune''; instead the mastheads were made local editions of the ''Oakland Tribune''. * The ''Contra Costa Times'', ''San Ramon Valley Times'', ''East County Times'', ''Tri-Valley Herald'' and ''San Joaquin Herald'' were scheduled to become the new ''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (f ...

''. * The ''San Mateo Times'' was scheduled to publish its last issue on November 1, 2011. As of November 2, 2011, subscribers were to get localized versions of the ''San Jose Mercury News''.

2016 restructuring

In March 2016, BANG announced it would further consolidate its newspapers (other than the ''Marin Independent Journal'') down to two: ''The East Bay Times'' and ''The Mercury News'', eliminating the ''Oakland Tribune'' and the other papers.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Companies based in Oakland, California Newspaper companies of the United States MediaNews Group Newspapers published in the San Francisco Bay Area Companies based in San Jose, California