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The Mercury News headquarters in downtown San Jose. The Mercury News is the largest tenant in the Towers @ 2nd high-rise office complex in downtown San Jose. [64] Business functions occupy the seventh floor of 4 North Second Street, while news staff and executives occupy the eighth floor, for a total of 33,186 square feet (3,083.1 m 2). [4]
Bay Area News Group ( BANG) is the largest publisher of daily and weekly newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area, including its flagship The Mercury News. A subsidiary of the Denver -based MediaNews Group, [2] its corporate headquarters is in San Jose, California, and publication offices in San Jose. [3] Since 2010, MediaNews Group has been ...
Gary Stephen Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was an American investigative journalist . He began his career working for newspapers in Kentucky and Ohio, winning numerous awards, and building a reputation for investigative writing. Hired by the San Jose Mercury News, Webb contributed to the paper's Pulitzer Prize -winning coverage ...
The charges of CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking were revived in 1996, when a newspaper series by reporter Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News claimed that the trafficking had played an important role in the creation of the crack cocaine drug problem in the United States. Webb's series led to three federal investigations, all of ...
San Jose, California's first city, has one of the oldest newspapers in the state. The San Jose Mercury was founded in 1851 as the San Jose Weekly Visitor, while the San Jose News was founded in 1883. In 1942 the Mercury purchased the News and continued publishing both newspapers, with the Mercury as the morning paper and the News as the evening ...
Dewey Decimal. 363.4/5/097285. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion is a 1998 book by journalist Gary Webb. The book is based on "Dark Alliance", Webb's three-part investigative series published in the San Jose Mercury News in August 1996. The original series claimed that, in order to help raise funds for efforts ...
San Jose Mercury News West Magazine, also referred to as West and West Magazine, was a Sunday magazine published by San Jose Mercury News from 1982 to c. 1997. West Magazine received numerous awards and was recognized both for its articles and investigative journalism, as well as its art design.
San Jose Mercury News reported: "The lion jumped out of hiding and attacked, gripping the boy's head and neck and then dragging him into a bush." Luckily this boy was with his family, who scared ...