14 Facts About San Jose Mercury

1.

The Mercury boasted that San Jose was the first town west of the Rocky Mountains lighted by electricity.

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2.

San Jose Mercury News launched the free, Spanish-language weekly in 1996 and the free, Vietnamese-language weekly Viet San Jose Mercury in 1999.

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3.

Viet San Jose Mercury was the first Vietnamese-language newspaper published by an English-language daily.

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4.

San Jose Mercury News benefited from its status as the major daily newspaper in Silicon Valley during the dot-com bubble.

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5.

For 20 years, the San Jose Mercury News was one of the country's top newspapers in the amount of advertising it ran.

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6.

San Jose 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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7.

San Jose Mercury Center shut down its AOL service in July 1996, leaving only the website.

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8.

San Jose Mercury Center ended its paywall in May 1998, after posting 1.

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9.

San Jose Mercury News operates a paywalled website, which is located at mercurynews.

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10.

San Jose 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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11.

San Jose Mercury Center shut down its AOL service in July 1996, leaving only the website.

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12.

The San Jose Mercury News promoted the upcoming series on Usenet newsgroups weeks in advance.

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13.

San Jose Mercury Center published reporting and supporting material online simultaneously with the print edition.

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14.

The San Jose 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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