The Argus (Fremont)

The Argus (Fremont)
Owner(s) MediaNews Group
Headquarters Fremont, California
Website The Argus

The Argus is 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.[1][2] 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.[3]

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.[4] The plans were later reversed.[5]

References

  1. San Jose Mercury News (CA) - June 21, 1985 - 2B Local SPARKS STOCKHOLDERS OK SALE OF NEWSPAPER GROUP
  2. A region's press: anatomy of newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area (1971)
  3. The State of The American Newspaper: The Battle Of the Bay, American Journalism Review, January/February 1999
  4. George Avalos. "Bay Area News Group makes changes to East Bay papers". Oakland Tribune. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
  5. Bay Area News Group announces it will retain East Bay mastheads

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