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FOUNDED IN 1851, the San Jose Mercury News is a Knight Ridder company. Known internationally as the newspaper of Silicon Valley, the Mercury News has earned a reputation for excellence in journalism that includes winning two Pulitzer Prizes and has received wide recognition for its high technology news and analysis. The newspaper maintains 13 bureau offices, including the first permanent post-war American bureau in Vietnam.

The Mercury News reaches 800,000 daily readers and serves one of the most prosperous markets in the nation. Circulation extends from San Francisco to Monterey with predominant readership in Santa Clara County. The paper has a growing presence on the Peninsula (including Palo Alto and Menlo Park) and in southern Alameda and San Benito counties.

The Mercury News is the first newspaper in the nation to publish in three languages. Nuevo Mundo, a Spanish-language weekly, was launched in 1996 and serves the country's fourth largest Hispanic market. Viet Mercury, a weekly Vietnamese publication was launched in January 1999 and serves a local Vietnamese population of 110,000.

The Mercury News was recently named as the eighth best newspaper in the nation by the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR). Singled out as one of the "top 21 newspapers to watch out for in the 21st century," we were cited as "one of the nation's best, and best-looking newspapers." CJR's selection criteria also stated, "(The Mercury News) just about patented newspaper coverage of the electronic revolution. It (Mercury News) has led the way in incorporating online coverage with traditional newsprint."

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