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Fremont Argus
''The Argus'' was a newspaper in the town of Fremont, California. Floyd L. Sparks was the longtime owner of ''The Argus'', along with the ''Daily Review'' and the ''Tri-Valley Herald''. It was last owned by Bay Area News Group-East Bay (BANG-EB), a subsidiary of MediaNews Group, who purchased the papers from Sparks in 1985. The newspaper was scheduled to be closed down, with the last issue of the paper published on November 1, 2011. ''The Oakland Tribune, Alameda Times-Star, Hayward Daily Review, Fremont Argus'' and ''West County Times'' all published their last editions the same day. On November 2, subscribers will get copies of the new ''East Bay Tribune'', a localized edition of ''The Mercury News''. The plans were later reversed. In 2016, the paper was one of four that was merged into the ''East Bay Times''. References External links Official siteArchive at Newspapers.com Mass media in Alameda County, California Fremont, California Newspapers published in the San Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MediaNews Group
MNG Enterprises, Inc., Trade name, doing business as Digital First Media and MediaNews Group, is a Denver, Colorado, United States–based newspaper publisher owned by Alden Global Capital. As of May 2021, it owns over 100 newspapers and 200 assorted other publications. History MediaNews Group was founded by Richard Scudder and William Dean Singleton. Both had experience in the American newspapers, American newspaper industry. Scudder ran the ''Newark Evening News'', a newspaper founded by his grandfather. Singleton had begun his career as a reporter when he was 15, for a small-town Texas newspaper and subsequently became the president of Allbritton Communications, Albritton Communications, a newspaper conglomerate in Texas. Based in Denver, Colorado, Scudder and Singleton purchased their first newspaper in 1983. They incorporated MediaNews Group in 1985, with Singleton as CEO and Scudder as chairman. The company began to purchase small local newspapers that were financially tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |