Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Digital First Media |
Founder(s) | George Staniford and Benet A. Dewes |
Publisher | Sharon Ryan |
Editor | Bert Robinson |
Founded | February 21, 1874 |
Language | English |
Ceased publication | 2016 |
Headquarters | San Jose, California, U.S. |
Sister newspapers | The Mercury News, East Bay Times |
ISSN | 1068-5936 |
OCLC number | 760300116 |
Website | eastbaytimes.com/oakland |
Free online archives | California Digital Newspaper Collection |
The Oakland Tribune was a daily newspaper published in Oakland, California, and a predecessor of the East Bay Times. It was published by the Bay Area News Group (BANG), a subsidiary of MediaNews Group.[1][2][3] Founded in 1874, the Tribune rose to become an influential daily newspaper. With the decline of print media, in 2016, the paper announced that the Tribune would fold into a new newspaper entitled, the East Bay Times along with its owners other newspapers in the East Bay starting April 5, 2016.[2] The former nameplates of the consolidated newspapers will continue to be published every Friday as weekly community supplements.