The ''San Mateo Daily News'' was a

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San Mateo, California San Mateo ( ) is the most populous city in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula. It is part of the San Francisco Bay Area metropolitan region, and is located about south of San Francisco. San Mateo border ...

published 6 days a week with an average daily circulation of 22,000. The newspaper was founded August 9, 2000 by

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and Jim Pavelich, who also published the ''

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''. Both papers were distributed in large red newspaper racks and inside stores, coffee shops, restaurants, schools, and major workplaces. The ''San Mateo Daily News'', along with five other ''Daily News'' editions, was sold to

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on February 15, 2005. After

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's acquisition of Knight Ridder in 2006, all six ''Daily News'' editions, including the ''San Mateo Daily News'' were bundled with the ''

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'' and sold to

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. The surviving Daily News, papers

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on April 7, 2009.

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Knight Ridder buys ''Daily News''

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