The Bay Area News Group announced today The Oakland Tribune will be renamed the East Bay Tribune and their other properties in the San Francisco East Bay Area (West County Times, the Alameda Times-Star, the Daily Review of Hayward and the Argus of Fremont) will also be renamed East Bay Tribune.
The Contra Costa Times, Valley Times, Tri-Valley Herald, San Joaquin Herald, and East County Times will all become known as The Times. Additionally, the San Mateo County Times will become an edition of the San Jose Mercury News, focusing on Peninsula issues. The East Bay papers will all retain their own separate local news section that covers its community.
As part of the consolidation and renaming, BANG says it will eliminate 120 news and production jobs.
Two new weekly newspapers will be launched in the East Bay: The Valley Journal serving Alamo, Danville, and San Ramon; and the Times-Herald, covering Dublin, Livermore, Pleasanton and Sunol.
