Oakland Post (California newspaper)

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name = The Oakland Post
type = Weekly newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation =
owners = Paul Cobb
headquarters = 405 14th Street, Suite 1215, Oakland, CA
editor =
publisher = Post News Group
website = http://www.postnewsgroup.com/
circulation =
price =
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The "Oakland Post" in Oakland, California is the largest African-American weekly newspaper in northern California serving Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond and San Francisco. The newspaper is headquarted in downtown Oakland. It is one of five local Post Newspapers published by the Post News Group, along with the "Berkeley Tri-City Post", the "Richmond Post", the "San Francisco Post" and the "South County Post". [ [http://www.postnewsgroup.com/ The Oakland Post] ]

Its newly promoted editor, prominent African-American journalist Chauncey Bailey, was killed by a gunman at close range on the morning August 2, 2007, as he was walking to his nearby work, around 7:30AM on 14th Street near Alice Street in Oakland, California cite web
url=http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/02/BAGGCRBL8A6.DTL&tsp=1
title=Hit man kills newspaper editor on Oakland street
author=Christopher Heredia, Leslie Fulbright and Marisa Lagos
publisher=San Francisco Chronicle
date=2007-08-02] in what police described as "an assassination". Witnesses said a single gunman wearing dark clothing and a ski maskcite web
url=http://www.ktvu.com/news/13805439/detail.html
title=Veteran Reporter Gunned Down In Oakland
publisher=KTVU
date=2007-08-02 ] approached Bailey, shot twice and ran away. In June 2007, Bailey had been promoted to Editor-in-Chief of all five Post newspapers. [ [http://www.postnewsgroup.com/ CHAUNCEY BAILEY] , Oakland Post, BY C. DIANNE HOWELL AND POST STAFF, cached 2007-08-03]

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* [http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070803/OBITUARIES/708030360/1003/METRO Chauncey Bailey Obituary] Oakland Post (California newspaper)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchThis article is about the East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area) California African-American weekly. For the Oakland County, Michigan weekly, see Oakland Post.The Oakland PostType Weekly newspaperFormat BroadsheetOwner Paul CobbPublisher Post News GroupFounded Headquarters 405 14th Street, Suite 1215, Oakland, CAWebsite: http://www.postnewsgroup.com/

The Oakland Post in Oakland, California, published every Wednesday, is the largest African-American weekly newspaper in northern California serving Oakland, Berkeley Tri-City, Richmond, San Francisco, and South County (Alameda). First incorporated June 8, 1963, by Tom Berkly, and adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation on June 26, 1964, file number 341227 in the Superior Court of California, County of Alameda, the paper now is published by The GOODNEWS IS..., LLC. The newspaper corporate offices are in downtown Oakland.

The Oakland Post is part of the Post Newsgroup papers including: Oakland Post, Berkeley Tri-City Post, Richmond Post, San Francisco Post, South County Post, and El Mundo, the largest Spanish-language paper in northern California. [1]

Tragedy struck the paper on August 2, 2007, when Editor Chauncey Bailey, appointed editor-in-chief of the five Post newspapers only two months before in June 2007, [4] was gunned down at 14th and Alice Streets while walking to the newspaper offices to meet the publisher, in what Oakland police described as "an assassination". [2] Witnesses said a single gunman wearing dark clothing and a ski mask [3] approached Bailey, shot twice and ran away. [2]

The paper continues to publish news and advertising with a combined circulation of 55,000.

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