Metro Newspapers
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- For other newspapers with the same name, see Metro (newspaper).
Metro Newspapers is an American newspaper company based in San Jose, California. It currently publishes three free alternative weekly newspapers, Metro Silicon Valley, Metro Santa Cruz and the North Bay Bohemian, which together reach an audience of about half a million people.
The publications are free-distribution alternative newspapers emphasizing news and analysis, local coverage and in-depth coverage of arts, culture and entertainment.
Founded in 1985, the Metro weekly celebrated its 20-year anniversary in 2005, making it the most established free weekly in the South Bay area of Northern California. It was one of the first newspapers to publish Matt Groening's Life in Hell and Rob Brezsny's Real Astrology.
Metro Santa Cruz began publishing in 1994. The same year, Metro Newspapers purchased the Sonoma County Independent, which, in October 2000, expanded its distribution to cover Napa and Marin counties and is now published under the North Bay Bohemian flag.
The company also runs a family of community Web sites (each covering a major U.S. metropolitan area) under the Boulevards brand.
Metro Silicon Valley has a downloadable edition in PDF and the SV411 blog, launched in 2006.
