Knight Ridder Acquires Silicon Valley Community Newspapers

Posted on November 28, 2005

Knight Ridder has announced the acquisition of Silicon Valley Community Newspapers, which publishes eight weekly free-distribution newspapers in the South Bay area surrounding San Jose. The eight are: Los Gatos Weekly-Times, Saratoga News, Cupertino Courier, Sunnyvale Sun, Campbell Reporter, Willow Glen Resident, Rose Garden Resident and Almaden Resident. The group also includes the San Jose City Times, a legal newspaper, and a glossy publication called Image. The newspapers have a combined circulation of more than 157,000. David Cohen, currently publisher and CEO of the group, manages and operates the publications and will continue to do so for Knight Ridder.

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