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16 unusual facts about San Jose Mercury News


2004 San Jose State Spartans football team

The San Jose Mercury News reported in March 2004 that budget cuts led some faculty members at San Jose State to advocate removing the SJSU football program from Division IA athletics.

Carl Guardino

In 2000, the San Jose Mercury News named Guardino one of the “Five Most Powerful” people in Silicon Valley.

Chase Lyman

The San Jose Mercury News named Lyman their Male Athlete of the Year in 2000.

Chemeketa Park, California

An advertisement in the Sunday, June 20, 1926 edition of the San Jose Mercury Herald lists a

Craig Crossman

Throughout the years his articles have appeared in hundreds of newspapers including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Orange County Register, The Hawaiian Advertiser, The San Jose Mercury News and The Press-Enterprise.

Dante Hughes

Hughes and his art were featured on the sports page of the San Jose Mercury News.

David Allen Brooks

The San Jose Mercury News described him as the "Surfer type who plays the handsome young molecular biologist" in the film The Kindred.

Delaine Eastin

In June 2007, a report by Dan Walters of the San Jose Mercury News outlined court actions relating to controversial use of state funding by Eastin's department.

Drawbridge, California

After the turn bridge drawbridges were removed and most of the residents had left, the San Jose Mercury News for years incorrectly reported that the town was a ghost town and that the residents left valuables behind.

Dysan

In 1983, Dysan was a Fortune 500 company, had over 1200 employees, and was ranked as among the top ten private sector employers within the Silicon Valley by the San Jose Mercury News, in terms of number of employees.

Greg Waldorf

Given his expertise, Waldorf has been cited on matters relating to investing and technology in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Jose Mercury News, and BusinessWeek among other publications and he has made numerous broadcast appearances on CNBC.

KQKD

The wirestory in the San Jose Mercury News included a note that the radio station was then celebrating its 25th anniversary.

Patrick Joseph McGrath

On February 19, 2004, Bishop McGrath published an opinion piece in the San Jose Mercury News prior to the opening of producer and director Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ.

San Jose Mercury News

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.

Ted Griggs

The San Jose Mercury News ranked Griggs number one in "Bay Area’s 25 Most Powerful Sports People," in 2008.


Bryan Monroe

Monroe was deputy managing editor at the San Jose Mercury News and was later named assistant vice president/news at Knight Ridder, where he was responsible for half of the group's 32 newsrooms, until it was sold in 2006 to McClatchy.

Burlingame Daily News

After McClatchy's acquisition of Knight Ridder in early 2006, all six Daily News editions, including the Burlingame Daily News, were bundled with the San Jose Mercury News and sold to MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.

East Bay Daily News

After McClatchy's acquisition of the paper's previous owner Knight Ridder in early 2006, the Palo Alto Daily News group, including the East Bay Daily News, was bundled with the San Jose Mercury News and sold to MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.

Redwood City Daily News

After McClatchy's acquisition of Knight Ridder in early 2006, all six Daily News editions, including the Redwood City Daily News, were bundled with the San Jose Mercury News and sold to MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.