Sayanora KR

One subtle sign of the June demise of Knight Ridder is right there in black and white.
The San Jose Mercury News used to carry articles from other local KR papers under the Knight Ridder byline. With KR no longer, the Mercury News is now running the name of the paper where the article originally appeared. These papers nclude the Daily News group and Silicon Valley Community Newspapers. Plans are also underway to have Daily News and SVCN reporters turn around same-day stories for the Mercury News website. The newspaper Guild is none too pleased about this development, since it violates their union contract with the Merc, and makes reporters from the non-union smaller papers union busters by default.