What is The Mercury News?
'''The Mercury News''' is a morning daily newspaper published in [[San Jose, California]], in the San Francisco Bay Area.<ref>{{Cite news|title=The Mercury News Comes Clean|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/14/opinion/the-mercury-news-comes-clean.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Roundup|first=A. WSJ com News|date=2001-03-06|title=San Jose Mercury News Plans To Lay Off Some Workers|language=en-US|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB983905256362905366|access-date=2023-12-12|issn=0099-9660}}</ref> As of March 2013, it was the fifth largest daily newspaper in the United States, with a daily circulation of 611,194.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Six Bay Area Newspapers to Consolidate Into Two|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/business/media/six-bay-area-newspapers-to-consolidate-into-two.html}}</ref> == History == ''The Mercury News'' has a rich history dating back to its inaugural publication in 1851. As the last remaining English-language daily<ref>{{Cite web|title=Home|url=https://historysanjose.org/|access-date=2023-12-19|website=History San Jose|language=en-US}}</ref> newspaper chronicling the events of the Santa Clara Valley, the newspaper has witnessed and documented the region's evolution over the years. The transition to its current name, ''The Mercury News'', occurred in 1983 following a series of mergers.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Beales|first=Benjamin Bronston|date=1943-09-01|title=The San Jose Mercury and the Civil War|url=https://online.ucpress.edu/ch/article/22/3/223/26906/The-San-Jose-Mercury-and-the-Civil-War|journal=California Historical Society Quarterly|language=en|volume=22|issue=3|pages=223–234|doi=10.2307/25155794|issn=0008-1175}}</ref> == References == <references /> [[Category:Newspapers in the United States]] [[Category:San Jose, California]] {{US-stub}}