The once-proud Mercury News may be leaving San Jose.

[KamaAina]

It is now part of a conglomerate called the "Bay Area News Group", along with several papers in the East Bay.

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_23211501/move-merc-into-old-city-hall

Santa Clara County has an old San Jose City Hall building it wants to unload. The county's oldest newspaper -- the Mercury News -- is shedding its old digs off Interstate 880 and seeking a new home for its newsroom staff....

Supervisor Dave Cortese thinks so. He asked the paper's publisher to consider the idea this week and requested a discussion about it at Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting.

Mercury News parent company MediaNews Group announced last month that it is selling the paper's longtime home on Ridder Park Drive. Printing and production operations are to move to Concord and Hayward in coming months while the paper searches for new newsroom office space in Silicon Valley.

"Moving this news media out of Santa Clara County will make it difficult for our residents," Cortese said, to receive "up to date and timely news that is relevant."

Indeed. The tenth-largest city in the country without a newspaper?!

[LTR]

1. It says printing and distribution are moving

The Newsroom will likely move to the old San Jose City Hall site or somewhere close.

Don't understand moving printing and distribution. Hayward and Concord are a bit far away.

[KamaAina]

2. It said they were looking "in Silicon Valley"

so that the "San Jose" Mercury News might end up in, say, Sunnyvale.

It is true that, for instance, the "Asbury Park" (NJ) Press is in neighboring Neptune, but that's hardly a major city like SJ.

[Gormy Cuss]

3. It's because BANG owns those facilities and can consolidate production.

They're already producing the Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times and a host of smaller regional papers in those facilities. My guess is that these production facilities have lower labor costs and the transportation costs aren't that significant.