Type Private Owner MediaNews Group | Industry Media Parent organization Digital First Media | |
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Products Newspaper
Online newspaper Website info.bayareanewsgroup.com Headquarters San Ramon, California, United States Founded 2006, Oakland, California, United States Founders George Staniford, Benet A. Dewes Profiles | ||
Bay Area News Group (BANG) is the largest publisher of daily and weekly newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area, including its flagship the San Jose Mercury News. A subsidiary of the Denver, Colorado based MediaNews Group, its corporate headquarters is in San Ramon, California and publication offices in San Jose and Walnut Creek, 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 San Jose, California.
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The structure allows the company to share stories between its various newspapers, meaning one reporter can get the story for all the publications.
BANG daily newspapers include the following, most of which are published as local editions of the San Jose Mercury News:
2011 Restructuring
On August 23, 2011, the company announced the reorganization of 11 of its newspapers, with shuttering of all of its East Bay mastheads 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 newspapers under the Oakland Tribune name, those newspapers to be shuttered and folded into the new publications.
2016 Restructuring
In March 2016, BANG announced it would further consolidate its newspapers down to two: The East Bay Times and The Mercury News, eliminating the Oakland Tribune and the other papers.