Bay Area News Group

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Bay Area News Group
Company type Private
Industry Media
Founded2006
Headquarters San Jose, California, U.S. [1]
Products Newspaper
Online newspaper
Owner MediaNews Group
Website www.bayareanewsgroup.com

Bay Area News Group (BANG) is the largest publisher of daily and weekly newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area, including its flagship The Mercury News . A subsidiary of the Denver-based MediaNews Group, [2] its corporate headquarters is in San Jose, California, and publication offices in San Jose. [3] Since 2010, MediaNews Group has been controlled by Alden Global Capital. [4] 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. [5] Most production aspects have now moved to The Mercury News facilities in San Jose, California.

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The company structure allows for the ability to share stories between its various newspapers, meaning one reporter can get the story for all the publications. Newspapers BANG publishes include: [6]

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. [7] 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. [8]

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. [10]

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