The ''Alameda Journal'' is an American weekly paid newspaper which serves the city of Oakland and surrounding

Alameda County, California Alameda County ( ) is a List of counties in California, county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 1,682,353, making it the 7th-most populous county in the state and List ...

. The ''Alameda Journal'' is now published under the name ''East Bay Times.'' It is published weekly on Friday with an estimated circulation is 23,259. It is edited by Jon Kawamoto, and is owned by

Digital First Media 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 ass ...

as part of their Bay Area News Group.

History

The ''Alameda Journal'' was founded in 1987 by John Crittenden. Hills Newspapers later purchased the paper as part of its east bay dailies and weeklies, which included In 1998, it was purchased by

Knight Ridder Knight Ridder was an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing. It was bought by McClatchy on June 27, 2006, allowing the latter to become the second largest newspaper publisher in the United States at the time ...

and Contra Costa Newspapers as part of a larger deal to buy Hills Newspapers. The News Media Group purchased the papers in 2006 but later declared bankruptcy in 2010, selling the papers to a hedge fund. Digital First Media acquired the papers in 2010. In 2014, the ''Alameda Journal'' ceased free delivery of the paper, requiring those wishing for delivery to subscribe to the Oakland Tribune. The effort was part of a strategy to drive more people to its website. In 2016, the Bay Area News Group consolidated its local papers under two names, The Mercury News and East Bay Times. Alameda Journal was subsumed under the East Bay Times name, becoming a section published on Fridays.

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