The merry-go-round of owners for the Silicon Valley Community Newspapers continues this week, with the announcement that the SJ Mercury News will be sold to Denver-based MediaNews. For those of you keeping score at home, SVCN (the publisher of the Willow Glen Resident and its sister community newspapers) will be purchased as part of the complex transaction announced this week.

The deal is so big, that it’s hard to find a local independent newspaper to report on it. We’ll go with the excellent article by the un-affiliated Palo Alto Weekly:

The Mercury reported that the Daily News Group — a Bay Area chain of local tabloids that Knight Ridder purchased a year ago that includes the Palo Alto Daily News and four sister papers — and the Silicon Valley Community Newspapers will also go to MediaNews. The fate of the smaller newspapers had not been included in the corporations’ official announcement of the deal.

Staff at SVCN have said all along that these changes will not affect the publication and editorial standards of the community newspapers. Let’s hope that’s still true.

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