The Mercury News
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The Mercury News is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published by the Bay Area News Group, a subsidiary of Media News Group which in tu
The March 14, 2023, front page of The Mercury News
The New Almaden mercury mine near San Jose
A postcard depicting the San Jose electric light tower
The Mercury and Herald front page on the afternoon of April 19, 1906, describes the state of destruction after the earthquake in San Francisco, including the destruction of the Examiner and Call buildings.
San Francisco Chronicle
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The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded on January 16, 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers C
The San Francisco Chronicle's front page, April 22, 1906
The Old Chronicle Building, at 690 Market Street
The current Chronicle Building, at 901 Mission Street, was commissioned in 1924 and is pictured here in 2017.
Bill German (left), the Chronicle's editor emeritus, and Page One editor Jack Breibart in the newsroom, March 1994