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The once-proud Mercury News may be leaving San Jose. [View all]
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."
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?!
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