| Newspaper: San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News
Published: September 01, 1997
Last Updated: May 26, 1999
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Newspaper: San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News
Date founded: 1851 (as the "San Jose Weekly Visitor").
Circulation: 287,000 (daily), 347,000 (Sunday)
Staff size: 367 newsroom professionals.
Recent awards: Two Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business
and Financial Journalism, 1997; general-excellence award, University of
Missouri's Lifestyle Journalism Awards, 1997; public-service award of the
Associated Press News Executives Council of California and Nevada, 1997;
two first-place awards in the Best of the West competition, 1997;
five first-place awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association,
1997; business section named one of best in the country by the Society
of American Business Editors and Writers, 1995 and 1996; two top awards
from the Computer Press Association, for best overall coverage and investigative
reporting, 1997
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