New Paper In Berkeley - East Bay Daily News

Knight Ridder, the publishing group that brought you the Contra Costa Times and the San Jose Mercury News, has started initial runs for the first copy of the East Bay Daily News. This will be a new publication, based out of Berkeley, to focus on the East Bay. With the resources of the CC Times and the SJMN available to it, this paper may become a permanent mainstay.

What effect will this paper actually have? Generally, Knight Ridder publications are very successful and high quality, and the EBDN may give the Oakland Tribune a run for its money for East Bay coverage. One former Daily Cal insider told me that this could spell the end of the struggling Berkeley Daily Planet as well as complicate the continuing financial troubles of the Daily Cal.Email This Post!