Mercury News to Stop Printing Spanish Paper
From Associated Press
The San Jose Mercury News, a paper that has won accolades for diversifying its newsroom and trying to improve coverage of minorities, said it would stop printing its Spanish-language newspaper and would sell a Vietnamese publication after failing to make them profitable.
Their last editions as Mercury News publications will be Nov. 11, said Mercury News Publisher George Riggs. The Viet Mercury is being sold to a group of businessmen including a former Mercury News staffer. The sale price was not disclosed.
The Mercury News, owned by Knight Ridder Inc., also is closing its unprofitable, weekly zoned editions of weekly sections on five Silicon Valley communities, Riggs said.
