The ''Redwood City Daily News'' was a

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Redwood City, California Redwood City is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California's Bay Area, approximately south of San Francisco, and northwest of San Jose. Redwood City's history spans its earliest inhabitation by the Ohlone people to being a ...

published 6 days a week with an average daily circulation of 8,000. The newspaper was founded August 9, 2000 by

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and Jim Pavelich, who also published the ''

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''. The ''Redwood City Daily News'' was adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation by the San Mateo County Superior Court in 2001, enabling it to publish legal notices. Both the Palo Alto and Redwood City ''Daily News'' editions were distributed in large red newspaper racks and in stores, coffee shops, restaurants, schools and major workplaces. The ''Redwood City Daily News'', along with five other ''Daily News'' editions, was sold to

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on Feb. 15, 2005. After

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's acquisition of Knight Ridder in early 2006, all six ''Daily News'' editions, including the ''Redwood City Daily News'', were bundled with the

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and sold to

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. On November 12, 2004, the ''Redwood City Daily News'' became one of the first print media outlets in the United States to report late-breaking news of national interest. The trial of

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for the murder of his wife Laci and their unborn son had taken place at the Redwood City courthouse, and less than an hour after the jury read their verdict the ''Daily News'' began circulation of an "extra" edition which announced the result. The surviving Daily News papers

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on April 7, 2009.

References

External links

Redwood City Daily News Official Website

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