Oakland Metro Business Journal Coming This Fall

Posted on August 25, 1998

H. Jeffery Harris, President of Par Communications, LLC dba East Bay Business Journal Inc. announced plans for a new publication -- the Oakland Metro Business Journal.

Harris said, "For the past 18 months we have sought a strategic alliance in media that would not only bring additional capital to our business but strengthen our offering to the marketplace. Our search for this alliance has been successful."

The East Bay Business Journal, first published on October 18, 1996, as a weekly tabloid size newspaper, will cease publication, according to Harris. The Oakland Metro Business Journal is scheduled to begin operation in the fourth quarter of this year.

Published weekly, The Oakland Metro Business Journal -- which will acquire the assets of the East Bay Business Journal, including its paid subscribers, who will all be recipients of annual subscriptions to the new paper -- will cover the area from Richmond to Fremont, with special attention being given to Oakland and the rapidly growing Fremont, Alameda and Emeryville markets.