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Article: Mercury News Drops Foreign Language Papers
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GREG SANDOVAL, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
10-22-2005
Dateline: SAN FRANCISCO
The San Jose Mercury News, which has won accolades for the diversity of its newsroom and coverage, announced Friday it plans to drop its Spanish and Vietnamese-language newspapers because the free publications aren't profitable.
The company plans to stop printing Nuevo Mundo and is selling Viet Mercury to a group of businessmen. Their last editions as Mercury News publications will be Nov. 11, Mercury News Publisher George Riggs said.
The sale price of Viet Mercury was not disclosed.
The Viet Mercury, launched in 1999, became the leading Vietnamese-language paper in the area with a circulation of 35,000. But ...