East Bay Times

The East Bay Times is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Walnut Creek, California, serving Contra Costa and Alameda counties in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, owned by the Bay Area News Group (BANG), a subsidiary of MediaNews Group.

The paper's roots trace to the weekly Contra Costa Courier, first published by George T. Crompton on June 1, 1911, in Walnut Creek. Dean Lesher founded the modern Contra Costa Times in 1947 and expanded it through acquisitions of neighboring weeklies. After Lesher's death in 1993, his widow Margaret sold the company to Knight Ridder in 1995 for $360 million; Knight Ridder was acquired by McClatchy in 2006, which then sold several papers, including the Contra Costa Times, to MediaNews Group. On April 5, 2016, BANG merged the Contra Costa Times with its other East Bay papers, including the Oakland Tribune (founded 1874), to form the East Bay Times.

In 2017, East Bay Times staff won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the Ghost Ship warehouse fire, which killed 36 people. The paper also publishes several community weeklies.

The East Bay Times is available in print and online through the Bay Area News Group's digital subscription platform.