Mercury News is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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20 Facts About Mercury News
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The Mercury News boasted that San Jose was the first town west of the Rocky Mountains lighted by electricity.
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Mercury News launched the free, Spanish-language weekly in 1996 and the free, Vietnamese-language weekly Viet Mercury in 1999.
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Viet Mercury was the first Vietnamese-language newspaper published by an English-language daily.
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Mercury News benefited from its status as the major daily newspaper in Silicon Valley during the dot-com bubble.
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For 20 years, the Mercury News was one of the country's top newspapers in the amount of advertising it ran.
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Mercury News was one of the first daily newspapers in the United States to have an online presence, and was the first to deliver full content and breaking news online.
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Mercury News Center shut down its AOL service in July 1996, leaving only the website.
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Mercury News Center ended its paywall in May 1998, after posting 1.
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County Supervisor Dave Cortese approached the Mercury News about moving into the former San Jose City Hall on North First Street, but the paper ended up returning downtown.
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Mercury News is the largest tenant in the Towers @ 2nd high-rise office complex in downtown San Jose.
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Older San Jose Mercury News newsboxes have black, white, and green stripes, while newer Mercury News newsboxes bear the paper's logo in white against a blue background.
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Mercury News operates a paywalled website, which is located at mercurynews.
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Mercury News was one of the first daily newspapers in the United States to have an online presence and was the first to deliver full content and breaking news online.
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In December 1994, the Mercury News began beta-testing a companion website, Mercury Center Web, which on January 20,1995, became the country's first news website.
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Mercury News Center shut down its AOL service in July 1996, leaving only the website.
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The Mercury News promoted the upcoming series on Usenet newsgroups weeks in advance.
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Mercury News Center published reporting and supporting material online simultaneously with the print edition.
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The Mercury News was named one of the five best-designed newspapers in the world by the Society for News Design for work done in 2001.
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Mercury News website received EPpy Awards in 1996,1999,2009,2013, and 2014.
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