Mercury News launches VentureBeat column
Starting today, Silicon Valley’s newspaper, the Mercury, News has kicked off a weekly column in its print edition featuring VentureBeat’s most compelling content.
VentureBeat is delighted with the deal. It extends our distribution considerably, to an additional 230,000 paid daily subscribers of the Mercury News.
For those who have asked about our relationship with the Mercury News, here’s where it stands: VentureBeat is entirely independent of the Merc. However, the Merc pays to syndicate VentureBeat’s content, has been running it online, and sporadically has placed VentureBeat news items in the print edition. Today’s column extends this relationship, simply bringing VentureBeat content into the print edition in a more organized way.
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About the Author, Matt Marshall
Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.
