The Mercury News
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The Mercury News (formerly San Jose Mercury News, often locally known as The Merc) is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published by the Bay Area News Group, a subsidiary of Media News Group which in turn is controlled by Alden Global Capital, a vulture fund.<ref name=BANG>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=Alden>Template:Cite news</ref> Template:As of, it was the fifth largest daily newspaper in the United States, with a daily circulation of 611,194.<ref name="AAM">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Carey circulation">Template:Cite news</ref> Template:As of, the paper has a circulation of 324,500 daily and 415,200 on Sundays.<ref name="Bay Area News Group">Template:Cite news</ref> Template:As of this further declined. The Bay Area News Group no longer reports its circulation, but rather "readership". For 2021, they reported a "readership" of 312,700 adults daily.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
First published in 1851, the Mercury News is the last remaining English-language daily newspaper covering the Santa Clara Valley. It became the Mercury News in 1983 after a series of mergers. During much of the 20th century, it was owned by Knight Ridder. Because of its location in Silicon Valley, the Mercury News has covered many of the key events in the history of information technology and computing, and was a pioneer in delivering news online.<ref name="Ridder Park history" /> It was the first American newspaper to publish in three languages (English, Spanish, and Vietnamese).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
NameEdit
The paper's name derives from the San Jose Mercury and San Jose News, two daily newspapers that merged to form the Mercury News.
The San Jose MercuryTemplate:'s name was a play on words. The word "mercury" refers to the importance of the mercury industry during the California Gold Rush. At the time, the nearby New Almaden mine (now Almaden Quicksilver County Park) was North America's largest producer of mercury, which was needed for hydraulic gold mining. In addition, Mercury is the Roman messenger of the gods as well as the god of commerce and thieves, known for his swiftness, so the name Mercury is commonly used for newspapers without the quicksilver association.<ref name="Ridder Park welcome">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
CoverageEdit
The paper's local coverage and circulation is concentrated in Santa Clara County and San Mateo County. With the Mercury News, East Bay Times, Marin Independent Journal, and Silicon Valley Community Newspapers, the Bay Area News Group covers much of the San Francisco Bay Area with the notable exception of San Francisco itself.<ref name=BANG/>
The Mercury NewsTemplate:'s predecessor, the Weekly Visitor, began as a Whig paper in the early 1850s but quickly switched its affiliation to the Democratic Party.<ref name="Beales">Template:Cite journal</ref> The paper remained a conservative voice through the mid 20th century, when it supported pro-growth city leaders and pursued a staunchly pro-growth, anti-union agenda.<ref name="Ridder Park history">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It became considerably more moderate in the 1970s, reflecting new ownership and changes to the local political landscape.Template:Sfn It endorsed John B. Anderson for president in 1980 and endorsed Democratic presidential candidates in every election from 1992 through 2016.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
HistoryEdit
Early historyEdit
The newspaper now known as the Mercury News began in 1851 or 1852.Template:Refn California legislators had just moved the state capital from San Jose to Vallejo, leading to the failure of San Jose's first two newspapers, the Argus and State Journal. A group of three businessmen led by John C. Emerson bought the papers' presses to found the San Jose Weekly Visitor.<ref name="Ridder Park welcome" /> The Weekly Visitor began as a Whig paper but quickly switched its affiliation to the Democratic Party. It was renamed the Santa Clara Register in 1852. The following year, Francis B. Murdoch took over the paper, merging it into the San Jose Telegraph.<ref name="Beales" />Template:Sfn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> W. A. Slocum assumed control of the Telegraph in 1860 and merged it with the San Jose Mercury or Weekly Mercury to become the Telegraph and Mercury. William N. Slocum soon dropped Telegraph from the name.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Sfn By this point, the Mercury was one of two newspapers publishing in San Jose.<ref name="Beales" />
Owen ownershipEdit
James Jerome Owen – a forty-niner and former Republican New York assemblyman – became the MercuryTemplate:'s publisher in the spring of 1861, later acquiring a controlling interest in the paper along with a partner, Benjamin H. Cottle.<ref name="Gottschalk">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Beales" />Template:Sfn The paper published daily as the San Jose Daily Mercury for three months in the fall of 1861, then from August 1869 to April 1870 with the addition of J. J. Conmy as partnerTemplate:Sfn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and again from March 11, 1872, after the purchase of the Daily Guide.<ref name="Gottschalk" /> In 1878, Owen formed the Mercury Printing and Publishing Company.Template:Sfn
In 1881, Owen proposed to light San Jose with a moonlight tower. The San Jose electric light tower was dedicated that year. The Mercury boasted that San Jose was the first town west of the Rocky Mountains lighted by electricity.<ref>San Jose Mercury, December 25, 1881, cited in Template:Cite book</ref>
The Mercury merged with the Times Publishing Company, which was owned by Charles M. Shortridge, in 1884.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Daily Morning Times and Daily Mercury briefly became the Times-Mercury, while the Weekly Times and Weekly Mercury briefly become the Times-Weekly Mercury.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1885, both publications adopted the San Jose Mercury name.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> That year, Owen sold his interest in the paper and moved to San Francisco.<ref name="Gottschalk" />
Hayes ownershipEdit
In late 1900, Everis A. Hayes and his brother Jay purchased the Mercury. In August 1901, they purchased the San Jose Daily Herald, an evening paper, and formed the Mercury Herald Company.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1913, the two papers were consolidated into a single morning paper, the San Jose Mercury Herald.<ref name="Mercury Herald">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 1942, the Mercury Herald Company purchased the San Jose News (which was founded in 1851) but continued to publish both papers, the Mercury Herald in the morning and the News in the evening, with a combined Sunday edition called the Mercury Herald News.<ref name="Mercury Herald" /> The Herald name was dropped in 1950.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Ridder ownershipEdit
Herman Ridder's Northwest Publications (later Ridder Publications) purchased the Mercury and News in 1952.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> During the mid 20th century, the papers took largely conservative, pro-growth positions. Publisher Joe Ridder was a vocal proponent of San Jose City Manager A. P. Hamann's development agenda, which emphasized urban sprawl within an ever-expanding city limits. Ridder counted on increasing population to lead to increased newspaper subscriptions and advertising sales. The paper supported a series of general obligation bonds worth $Template:Format price (equivalent to $Template:Format price in Template:Inflation/year), most of it spent on capital improvements that benefited real estate developers. It also supported a revision to the city charter that introduced a direct mayoral elections and abolished the vote of confidence for city manager.Template:Sfn By 1967, the Mercury had risen to rank among the top six largest morning newspapers in the country by circulation, boosted by unabated growth into the suburbs, while the News ran the most advertising of any evening newspaper in the country.<ref name="Ridder Park history" />
In February 1967, the Mercury and News moved from a cramped former grocery store in downtown San Jose to a Template:Convert campus in suburban North San Jose. A Template:Convert main building could contain more presses to serve a booming population. The newly built complex cost $Template:Format price (equivalent to $Template:Format price in Template:Inflation/year) and was called the largest one-story newspaper plant in the world. Civic leaders criticized the move as emblematic of the urban decay that downtown San Jose was experiencing.<ref name="Pizarro">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Carey move" /><ref name="Carey sell">Template:Cite news</ref>
Knight Ridder ownershipEdit
In 1974, Ridder merged with Knight Newspapers to form Knight Ridder. Joe Ridder was forced to retire in 1977. His nephew, P. Anthony "Tony" Ridder, succeeded him as publisher. Tony Ridder placed an emphasis on improving the papers' reportage, to better reflect Knight's reputation for investigative journalism.<ref name="Ridder Park history" />
After the merger, the papers moderated their formerly staunch pro-growth agenda, and coverage of local issues became more balanced. The editorial board expressed only minimal opposition to a 1978 measure that abolished at-large city council elections, seen as favorable to deep-pocketed developers, in favor of council districts.Template:Sfn It supported the desegregation of San Jose Unified School District and in 1978 argued against Proposition 13. In the 1980s, Ridder supported Mayor Tom McEnery's efforts to redevelop the downtown area, including the construction of San Jose Arena and The Tech Museum of Innovation.<ref name="Ridder Park history" />Template:Sfn
In 1983, the Mercury and News merged into a single seven-day paper, the San Jose Mercury News, with separate morning and afternoon editions.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The afternoon edition was discontinued in 1995, leaving only the morning edition.<ref name="Ridder Park history" />
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Mercury News published West magazine as a Sunday insert.
Coverage of ethnic communitiesEdit
In the 1990s, the Mercury News expanded its coverage of the area's ethnic communities, to national acclaim,<ref name="Grade Stoll">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> hiring Vietnamese-speaking reporters for the first time.<ref name="Ridder Park history" /> In 1994, it became the first of two American dailies to open a foreign bureau in Vietnam after the Vietnam War.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Delevett">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="NYT Glaberson">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Bùi Văn Phú">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A foreign correspondent stationed at the Hanoi bureau held an annual town hall meeting with the Vietnamese-American community in San Jose. Initially, community members staged protests accusing the paper of siding with the Communist government in Vietnam by opening the bureau.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The Mercury News launched the free, Spanish-language weekly {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (New World) in 1996<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the free, Vietnamese-language weekly Viet Mercury in 1999.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Viet Mercury was the first Vietnamese-language newspaper published by an English-language daily.<ref name="Delevett" /> It competed against a crowded field of 14 Vietnamese-owned community newspapers, including four dailies.<ref name="Nieman Tindall">Template:Cite journal</ref>
Growth alongside the technology industryEdit
The Mercury News benefited from its status as the major daily newspaper in Silicon Valley during the dot-com bubble. It led the news industry in business coverage of the valley's high-tech industry, attracting readers from around the world. Time called the Mercury News the most technologically savvy newspaper in the country.<ref name="Ridder Park history" /> The tech industry's growth fueled growth in the paper's classified advertising, particularly for employment listings. For 20 years, the Mercury News was one of the country's top newspapers in the amount of advertising it ran.<ref name="CJR Shapiro">Template:Cite journal</ref>
The Mercury News was one of the first daily newspapers in the United States to have an online presence, and was the first to deliver full content and breaking news online. It launched a service called Mercury Center on America Online in 1993, followed by the country's first news website in 1995 (see Template:Section link). Mercury Center shut down its AOL service in July 1996, leaving only the website.<ref name="CJR Shapiro" /><ref name="Carlson">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="books.google.com">Template:Cite book</ref>
At its peak in 2001, the Mercury News had 400 employees in its newsroom, 15 bureaus, $288 million in annual revenue, and profit margins above 30%. In 1998, Knight Ridder moved its headquarters from Miami to the Knight-Ridder Building in San Jose, which was seen as an acknowledgment of the central role that online news would play in the company's future. Mercury Center ended its paywall in May 1998, after posting 1.2 million monthly unique visitors the previous year. By 2000, the paper had a Sunday circulation of 327,000 and $341 million in annual revenue, $118 million of it from job listings.<ref name="CJR Shapiro" /> In 2001, circulation rose to 289,413 daily and 332,669 Sundays.<ref name="Ridder Park history" />
Flush times come to an endEdit
The collapse of the dot-com bubble impacted the classified advertising that sustained the newspaper's business operations. Additionally, newspapers across the industry faced serious competition to their job listings from websites such as Monster.com, CareerBuilder, and Craigslist.<ref name="CJR Shapiro" /><ref name="Ridder Park history" />
Cost-cutting began affecting the initiatives the paper had started in the 1990s. In June 2005, the Mercury News closed its Hanoi bureau.<ref name="Bùi Văn Phú" /> On October 21, it also announced the closure of {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} and the sale of Viet Mercury to a group of Vietnamese-American businessmen; however, the deal fell through, and Viet Mercury published its final issue on November 11, 2005.
Digital First ownershipEdit
On March 13, 2006, The McClatchy Company purchased Knight Ridder for $Template:Format price. In a surprise move, McClatchy immediately put the Mercury News and 11 other newspapers back up for sale.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Ridder Park history" /> On April 26, Denver-based MediaNews Group (now Digital First Media) announced a planned $Template:Format price purchase of the Mercury News, two other California newspapers, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, with the three California papers to be added to the California Newspapers Partnership (CNP).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="CJR Shapiro" /> However, on June 12, 2006, federal regulators from the U.S. Department of Justice asked for more time to review the purchase, citing possible antitrust concerns over MediaNews' ownership of other newspapers in the region.<ref name="Chron Egelko">Template:Cite news</ref>
Although approval by regulators and completion of MediaNews' acquisition was announced on August 2, 2006, a lawsuit claiming antitrust violations by MediaNews and the Hearst Corporation had also been filed in July 2006.<ref name="Chron Egelko" /> The suit, which sought to undo the purchase of both the Mercury News and the Contra Costa Times, was scheduled to go to trial on April 30, 2007. While extending until that date a preliminary injunction that prevented the collaboration of local distribution and national advertising sales by the two media conglomerates, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston on December 19, 2006, expressed doubt over the legality of the purchase.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On April 25, 2007, days before the trial was scheduled to begin, the parties reached a settlement in which MediaNews preserved its acquisitions.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Mercury News and Contra Costa Times were placed under CNP's local subsidiary, the Bay Area News Group. Meanwhile, layoffs continued at the Mercury News. Around December 2016, 101 employees were laid off, including 40 in the newsroom.<ref name="CJR Shapiro" />
In 2013, MediaNews Group and 21st Century Media merged to form Digital First Media.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref> In April 2013, MediaNews announced that it would sell the Mercury News campus on Ridder Park Drive in North San Jose. County Supervisor Dave Cortese approached the Mercury News about moving into the former San Jose City Hall on North First Street,<ref name="Merc Woolfolk">Template:Cite news</ref> but the paper ended up returning downtown. In June 2014, printing and production of the Mercury News and other daily newspapers moved to Bay Area News Group's Concord and Hayward facilities. The Mercury News moved into a downtown office building that September.<ref name="Carey sell" /> According to the publishers, the Ridder Park Drive facility had become unnecessarily large for the paper, following the departure of printing operations and other staff reductions that had occurred over the years.<ref name="Pizarro" />
On April 5, 2016, Bay Area News Group consolidated the San Mateo County Times and 14 other titles into the San Jose Mercury News. The paper's name was shortened to The Mercury News.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Ridder Park history" />
FacilitiesEdit
The Mercury News is the largest tenant in the Towers @ 2nd high-rise office complex in downtown San Jose.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Business functions occupy the seventh floor of 4 North Second Street, while news staff and executives occupy the eighth floor, for a total of Template:Convert.<ref name="Carey move" /> Printing and production of the Mercury News take place at the Bay Area News Group's facilities in Concord and Hayward in the East Bay.<ref name="Carey sell" />
Originally, the Mercury and News published from various locations in downtown San Jose. From February 1967 to September 2014, the papers were headquartered in a Template:Convert campus in suburban North San Jose, abutting the Nimitz Freeway (then State Route 17, now Interstate 880).<ref name="Pizarro" /> The Web staff was originally co-located with the newsroom staff but moved to downtown San Jose in December 1996.<ref name="CJR Shapiro" /> Following the Mercury NewsTemplate:' return to the downtown area, Digital First Media sold the suburban campus to Super Micro Computer, Inc., which renamed it "Supermicro Green Computing Park".<ref name="Ridder Park welcome" />
Older San Jose Mercury News newsboxes have black, white, and green stripes, while newer Mercury News newsboxes bear the paper's logo in white against a blue background.
Online presenceEdit
The Mercury News operates a paywalled website, which is located at mercurynews.com, sjmercury.com, or sjmn.com. Its SiliconValley.com website focuses on the technology industry in Silicon Valley. It also publishes a morning e-mail newsletter, Good Morning Silicon Valley, that covers technology news. "Mercury News" and "e-Edition" applications are available for Android and iOS devices, as well as for the Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble Nook.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The Mercury News was one of the first daily newspapers in the United States to have an online presence and was the first to deliver full content and breaking news online. In 1990, editor Robert Ingle sent a report to Tony Ridder, then the head of Knight Ridder, on the company's future in electronic media after the failure of Viewtron four years earlier. Ingle proposed a Mercury Center online service that would use the newspaper's content to bring together communities of interest.<ref name="CJR Shapiro" /> It launched as part of America Online on May 10, 1993, at AOL keyword Template:Kbd. It was the second news service on AOL, after the Chicago Tribune opened Chicago Online in 1992.<ref name="Carlson" /><ref name="books.google.com"/><ref name="NYT Glaberson" />
The paper sent floppy disks to subscribers for accessing Mercury Center. The service featured a large amount of content for free: the print paper's full content, supplementary material such as documents and audio clips, stock quotes, and about 200 stories that did not make the print edition. A forum enabled readers to converse with each other and give feedback to reporters. However, the service's most popular content lie behind a paywall: back issues from 1985 onward and a "NewsHound" clipping service were popular with business users.<ref name="CJR Shapiro" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Readers could enter alphanumeric codes, which appeared throughout the print paper, to quickly access online versions of articles that did not make print. Examples included Template:Kbd for an article in the news section or Template:Kbd for a press release in the business section. The Mercury Center staff comprised both news reporters and business "senders", who posted press releases online in addition to vetted content.<ref name="NYT Glaberson frontier">Template:Cite news</ref>
Initially, the service had difficulty attracting users, prompting the paper to add a telephone and fax hotline, News Call, in November 1993. By early 1994, Mercury Center had added 5,100 subscribers to AOL, representing less than 20% of AOL's 30,000 subscribers in the San Francisco Bay Area or less than two percent of the Mercury NewsTemplate:'s 282,488 daily subscribers.<ref name="NYT Glaberson frontier" /><ref name="WWW">Template:Cite press release</ref>
In December 1994, the Mercury News began beta-testing a companion website, Mercury Center Web,<ref name="Carlson" /> which on January 20, 1995, became the country's first news website.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Subscribers no longer needed AOL to access the Mercury NewsTemplate:'s online content, and the paper no longer had to share advertising revenue with AOL.<ref name="CJR Shapiro" /> The site ran on Netscape's Netsuite Web server, with connectivity provided by Netcom.<ref name="WWW" /> Access to the site cost $4.95 per month, with a discount for print subscribers. In October 1995, CareerBuilder.com launched as a partnership between the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Mercury News, New York Times, and Washington Post. Mercury Center shut down its AOL service in July 1996, leaving only the website.<ref name="CJR Shapiro" />
In August 1996, the Mercury News published "Dark Alliance", a series of investigative articles by reporter Gary Webb that claimed CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking (see Template:Section link). The Mercury News promoted the upcoming series on Usenet newsgroups weeks in advance. Mercury Center published reporting and supporting material online simultaneously with the print edition. The robust online production drew significant national attention to the series. Within days, more than 2,500 websites linked to Mercury Center's "Dark Alliance" section, and the site received 100,000 daily page views over the usual traffic for weeks. Executive editor Jerome Ceppos eventually distanced the paper from the series, but it continued to receive attention, especially from online conspiracy theorists.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
On October 26, 1999, technology columnist Dan Gillmor began writing a blog, eJournal, on the Mercury NewsTemplate:' SiliconValley.com website. It is believed to have been the first blog by a journalist at a traditional media company.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Bayosphere">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the 2000s, he was joined by columnists-turned-bloggers Tim Kawakami and John Paczkowski.
Articles dating back to June 1985 can be found online for free on the Mercury News website, with full text available on the NewsLibrary and NewsBank subscription databases.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> NewsBank also hosts the full text of articles from 1886 to 1922. The San José Public Library's website hosts thousands of news clips of articles from 1920 to 1979.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Much of Gillmor's eJournal is preserved on the Bayosphere website.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Bayosphere" />
AwardsEdit
The newspaper has earned several awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes, one in 1986 for reporting regarding political corruption in the Ferdinand Marcos administration in the Philippines, and one in 1990 for their comprehensive coverage of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Assistant managing editor David Yarnold was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2004 for a local corruption investigation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Mercury News was also named one of the five best-designed newspapers in the world by the Society for News Design for work done in 2001. In 2007 the newspaper won a Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for General Excellence, Class IV.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Various staff writers and designers have received awards for their contributions to West magazine, a Sunday insert published by the Mercury News in the 1980s and 1990s.
The Mercury News website received EPpy Awards in 1996, 1999, 2009, 2013, and 2014.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
ControversiesEdit
In August 1996, the Mercury News published "Dark Alliance", a series of investigative articles by reporter Gary Webb. The series claimed that members of the Nicaraguan Contras, a right wing guerrilla group organized with the help of the Central Intelligence Agency, had been involved in smuggling cocaine into America to support their struggle, and as a result, had played a major role in creating the crack-cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. The series sparked three federal investigations, but other newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times later published articles alleging that the series' claims were overstated. Executive editor Jerry Ceppos, who had approved the series, eventually published a column that suggested shortcomings in the series' reporting, editing, and production, while maintaining the story was correct "on many important points".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The series was turned into a 1998 book by the same name, also by Webb, and an account of the controversy surrounding the series was published as Kill the Messenger in 2006. Both were the basis for the 2014 film Kill the Messenger.
Notable peopleEdit
- Lamberto AlvarezTemplate:Snd artist
- Scott ApelTemplate:Snd Mercury News movie columnist; science fiction writer
- Dwight BentelTemplate:Snd Mercury Herald reporter
- Ryan BlitsteinTemplate:Snd Mercury News business reporter; nonprofit executive
- Howard BryantTemplate:Snd technology and sports reporter
- Ric BucherTemplate:Snd Mercury News beat writer; radio basketball analyst
- Stephen ButlerTemplate:Snd financial columnist
- Lou CannonTemplate:Snd reporter
- John CanzanoTemplate:Snd sports columnist
- Pete CareyTemplate:Snd Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter
- Denis CollinsTemplate:Snd reporter
- Tim CowlishawTemplate:Snd sportswriter
- Penny De Los SantosTemplate:Snd photographer
- Diana DiamondTemplate:Snd editorial writer
- Hannah DreierTemplate:Snd reporter
- Sandra EisertTemplate:Snd Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer and West art director
- Katherine EllisonTemplate:Snd Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter
- Steve FainaruTemplate:Snd investigative reporter
- Dan GillmorTemplate:Snd technology columnist and blogger
- Susan GoldbergTemplate:Snd Mercury News managing editor; magazine editor
- Pedro GomezTemplate:Snd baseball writer
- Minal HajratwalaTemplate:Snd Mercury News journalist; writer and queer rights activist
- Jay T. HarrisTemplate:Snd Mercury News chairman and publisher
- Everis A. HayesTemplate:Snd Mercury Herald publisher and proprietor; Republican congressman from California
- David E. HoffmanTemplate:Snd reporter
- David Cay JohnstonTemplate:Snd reporter
- Tim KawakamiTemplate:Snd sports columnist
- Jeffrey Bruce KleinTemplate:Snd West editor-in-chief; investigative reporter
- Robert LindseyTemplate:Snd Mercury News reporter; crime author
- Steve LopezTemplate:Snd staff writer
- Michael S. MaloneTemplate:Snd technology reporter
- Gerald NachmanTemplate:Snd Mercury television reviewer
- Hoang Xuan NguyenTemplate:Snd Viet Mercury managing editor; South Vietnamese author
- James Jerome OwenTemplate:Snd Mercury publisher; Republican New York assemblyman and California assemblymanTemplate:Sfn
- Sal PizarroTemplate:Snd Around Town, Cocktail Chronicles columnist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Michael RezendesTemplate:Snd reporter
- James Herbert (Bert) RobinsonTemplate:Snd Pulitzer Prize-winning Senior Editor
- Lewis M. SimonsTemplate:Snd Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter
- Susan SlusserTemplate:Snd baseball writer
- Rebecca SmithTemplate:Snd reporter
- Timothy TaylorTemplate:Snd opinion columnist
- Philip TrounstineTemplate:Snd political writer and editor
- Gary WebbTemplate:Snd investigative reporter
- Leigh WeimersTemplate:Snd Community columnist
- Troy WolvertonTemplate:Snd technology columnist
- David YarnoldTemplate:Snd Mercury News senior vice president; environmentalist
Community weekliesEdit
The Mercury News publishes the following community weeklies:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Almaden Resident
- Cambrian Resident
- Campbell Reporter
- Cupertino Courier
- Los Gatos Weekly
- Rose Garden Resident
- Saratoga News
- Sunnyvale Sun
- Willow Glen Resident
- Peninsula News
- The Milpitas Post
See alsoEdit
NotesEdit
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- Template:Cite book [1] Excerpted from Template:Cite book
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External linksEdit
- Template:Official website
- Template:Webarchive
- SiliconValley.com
- San Jose Telegraph and Santa Clara Register front page, February 15, 1854[2]
- wikisource:en:California Historical Society Quarterly/Volume 22/The San Jose Mercury and the Civil War
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