IS 290-1 Assignment 1
Mary Hodder
Local Newspaper
Listing: Papers are listed at bullet
points, and then following in order are owners of the papers, and possibly 2nd
level owners of those 1st level owners.
Owned
by: Bigfoot Media, Inc. (also owns San Mateo Daily Journal, 14,800 circulation) , Berkeley, CA
Arnold Lee and Edward Carse
Owned by: UC Berkeley's Office
of Public Affairs
Office of
Public Affairs
101 Sproul Hall, #4202
Berkeley, CA
94720-4202
UC Regents, State of California
Owned by: Bay Classifieds (appears to own, according to domain name
check and secretary of state incorporation check), Oakland CA
Member of: TradeExpress.com (central and south coast editions – CFM is a
member of this group of weekly classified newspapers and the ads are
aggregated)
Owned
by: Independent Berkeley Students Publishing Company, Inc. (publisher
and owner) located at Eschelman Hall, UCB
(name
licensed from the UC Board of Regents, located on UC Campus)
Owned by: New Times:
Co-founders Jim Larkin (chairman and CEO) and Michael Lacey (the company's
executive editor) each own 40% of New Times; employees own the rest In addition
to the East Bay Express, they own 11 other papers including SF Weekly, and The
Ruxton Group, which sells advertising for 28 newsweeklies in major metropolitan
markets. 1201 E.
Jefferson, Phoenix, AZ 85034
Owned by: ANG Newspapers which has The Oakland Tribune, Alameda Times-Star, The Daily Review, The Argus, the Tri-Valley Herald, The Marin Independent Journal, the Times-Herald and the San Mateo County Times, in the Bay Area.
Top level ownership: MediaNews Groups and MediaNews Technologies (MNGi) which maintains 74 Web sites, which include MNG's 49 daily newspapers, several regional portals, a number of classified vertical sites and the company's umbrella site, www.newschoice.com. 1560 Broadway, Suite 2100, Denver, CO 80202.
Owned by: Hearst Newspapers: The Hearst Corporation subsidiary publishes a dozen daily newspapers including the Houston Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Antonio Express-News, the Albany Times Union, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All dailies offer online editions. In addition, the company publishes 18 weekly newspapers in Michigan (Vassar Pioneer Times), Texas (Beaumont Journal), and New York (Ballston Journal). Joint Venture
Top level ownership: Hearst Communications Inc. Family-owned Hearst Corporation is a media
giant with interests in newspapers (Hearst
Newspapers), magazines (Hearst
Magazines), and business publishing; TV and radio (Hearst Argyle
TV); a cartoon and features service (King Features);
cable network programming; and online services. The company owns 12 daily
newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle (which Hearst acquired
after a lengthy antitrust inquiry that also resulted in the sale of rival paper
San Francisco Examiner) and the Houston Chronicle; 18 weeklies;
15 US consumer magazines, including Cosmopolitan; stakes in cable TV
networks, including A&E, Lifetime,
and ESPN;
and business publishers. Hearst also owns about 30% of iVillage,
the Web network aimed at women.
Owned by: New Times:
Co-founders Jim Larkin (chairman and CEO) and Michael Lacey (the company's
executive editor) each own 40% of New Times; employees own the rest. In
addition to the SF Weekly, they own 11 other papers including the East Bay
Express, and The Ruxton Group, which sells advertising for 28 newsweeklies in
major metropolitan markets. 1201 E.
Jefferson, Phoenix, AZ 85034
Owned
by:
Bay Guardian Company, Inc., Bruce B Bruggman, 520 Hampshire ST, San
Francisco, CA 94110.