• Source: California Newspapers Partnership

      • California Newspapers Partnership is a publisher of more than two dozen daily newspapers and several weekly newspapers in the United States state of California. The partnership is managed as a subsidiary of MediaNews Group, its majority owner. The minority partner is Stephens Media, with roughly a one-quarter ownership stake.


      History


      William Dean Singleton, founder of MediaNews, pushed for the partnership in 1999 as part of his "clustering" strategy of newspaper ownership — owning groups of newspapers in a geographic area for economies of scale. For example, he had acquired five dailies in Northern California in the mid-1990s and centralized their operations into one copy and layout desk, and one team for special sections such as sports and features.
      In an effort to achieve efficiencies on a larger scale, Singleton offered to pool its Bay Area papers — the Alamedia Newspaper Group — and the Los Angeles Daily News in a partnership with the Ontario, California, assets of Donrey Media Group (now called Stephens). A year after forming the partnership, the duo were joined by Gannett, which contributed the San Bernardino Sun and the Marin Independent Journal.
      MediaNews entered into similar partnerships in New Mexico-Texas and Pennsylvania with Gannett, and in Colorado with E.W. Scripps Company. In 2015, Gannett gave its stake in CNP to MediaNews successor Digital First Media in exchange for the New Mexico-Texas and Pennsylvania and cash.
      As MediaNews remains the largest shareholder in the California Newspaper Partnership, the partnership effectively functions as a subsidiary of Denver-based MediaNews Group, and a parent to MediaNews' three newspaper clusters in California, the Bay Area News Group, Los Angeles Newspaper Group and its Northern California holdings. Those operational clusters include a combination of newspapers owned by the partnership and newspapers wholly owned by MediaNews.


      Holdings




      = Bay Area

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      CNP dailies in the Bay Area News Group:

      Alameda Times-Star of Alameda, California
      The Argus of Fremont, California
      Contra Costa Times of Walnut Creek, California
      The Daily News of Palo Alto, California
      East County Times
      Marin Independent Journal of San Rafael, California
      San Jose Mercury News of San Jose, California
      Santa Cruz Sentinel of Santa Cruz, California


      = Northern California

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      CNP dailies in Northern California:

      Daily Democrat of Woodland, California
      Daily News of Red Bluff, California
      Enterprise Record of Chico, California
      Lake County Record Bee of Lakeport, California
      Oroville Mercury Register of Oroville, California
      Times-Standard of Eureka, California
      Ukiah Daily Journal of Ukiah, California
      Vacaville Reporter of Vacaville, California
      Vallejo Times Herald of Vallejo, California


      = Southern California

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      CNP dailies in the Southern California News Group:

      Inland Valley Daily Bulletin of Rancho Cucamonga, California
      Pasadena Star-News of Pasadena, California
      Redlands Daily Facts of Redlands, California
      San Gabriel Valley Tribune of Monrovia, California
      The Sun of San Bernardino, California
      Whittier Daily News of Whittier, California
      Orange County Register of Anaheim, California
      Riverside Press-Enterprise of Riverside, California
      Los Angeles Daily News of Woodland Hills, California
      Long Beach Press Telegram of Long Beach, California
      Torrance Daily Breeze of Torrance, California


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