ANG Newspapers
Summary
Bay Area News Group, based in San Ramon, California with offices in San Jose and Walnut Creek, is a subisidary of the Denver based MediaNews Group, a part of their Bay Area News Group-East Bay. The ANG Newspapers label referred to several newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area, including its flagship, The Oakland Tribune and other papers such as The (Vacaville) Reporter, Alameda Times-Star, The (Fremont) Argus, The (Hayward) Daily Review, Marin Independent Journal, The San Mateo Times, Tri-Valley Herald, Vallejo Times-Herald, Milpitas Post, and Pacifica Tribune.Previously known as ANG (Alameda News Group), it had a production facility in Pleasanton, California.
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Copy editors ‘have been sacrificed more than any other newsroom category’
King’s Journalism Review The decline of newspapers has fallen especially hard on copy editors, Natascia Lypny writes.
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Steve Buttry to copy editors: ‘Say goodbye to obscure pun headlines’
“Let’s be honest: Newspapers have been way too tolerant of puns in headlines. A great pun can make a great headline, but too many pun headlines are silly and… Read more.
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Denver Post, Contra Costa Times revamp story editing with fewer copy editors
In some ways, the Denver Post and Contra Costa Times’ cutbacks in copyediting, announced last month and now final, is a common story these days. Less common are the other changes they’re making in how they… Read more.
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Contra Costa Times second MediaNews paper to consolidate copy editing
MediaWire memo A memo from Contra Costa Times Executive Editor Dave Butler shows that another MediaNews paper is shifting copy-editing responsibilities within the newsroom. Thursday morning, Westword published a memo from Denver Post Editor Gregory Moore saying copy-editing would… Read more.
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Controversial 'Doonesbury' Strip Rejected By Some Newspapers
Some newspapers are choosing not to run a controversial new "Doonesbury" strip, which skewers a Texas law that requires women who are seeking abortions to receive sonograms.
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Police chief sends sergeant to reporter’s home after midnight to demand article revision
Oakland Tribune The Berkeley, Calif. , police chief apologized Friday after sending a sergeant to the home of newspaper reporter Doug Oakley at 12:45 a. m. to insist on changes to a story posted earlier in the evening. Jim Ewert, general… Read more.
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Bay Area Newspapers Cancel Merger
San Francisco-based newspaper publisher, Bay Area News Group (BANG), is reversing plans to amalgamate 11 of its papers into two titles. The Oakland Tribune and The Contra Costa Times will now retain their names. In August, BANG announced plans to print the Oakland Tribune, Alameda Times-Star, Daily Review, Argus and West County Times under a single name – the East Bay Tribune – as reported in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Bay Area News Group pulls a Netflix, decides against its own controversial rebranding plan; launches Community Media Labs initiative featuring open newsrooms
The president of the Bay Area News Group said today that the company had reconsidered its idea of rebranding its local newspapers and will instead retain "the majority" of its current newspaper titles. " "After carefully considering the feedback we received after we announced our plan to rebrand our newspapers, we decided to embrace a strategy that maintains the majority of our current mastheads and includes bringing the community into the newsroom," Mac Tully, president of Bay Area News Group said in the company's.
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And Then There Were Two
Some forty journalists will lose their jobs in November, when the Bay Area News Group squeezes eleven community newspapers down to two. BANG announced Tuesday that it would fold The Contra Costa Times, San Ramon Valley Times, East County Times, Tri-Valley Herald, and San Joaquin Herald into a new paper called The Times, and merge The Oakland Tribune, Alameda Times-Star,.
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MediaNews Group Consolidates Eleven Bay Area Papers Into Two
California’s Bay Area residents are a couple months away from losing many of their local newspapers, as the Bay Area News Group—a division of MediaNews Group—consolidates twelve newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, into just two: The Times and the East Bay Tribune.
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