Editing Silicon Valley (section)

==Media==
{{main|Media in the San Francisco Bay Area}}
[[File:McKinley memorial, St. James Park, San Jose, California (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Headquarters of ''[[The Mercury News]]'', Silicon Valley's largest newspaper, in Downtown San Jose]]
[[File:Charles_Herrold_laboratory_circa_1912.jpg|thumb|right|50 W. San Fernando Street in downtown San Jose is the site of the world's first [[radio broadcasting station]], created in 1909 by [[Charles Herrold]], the "Father of Broadcasting".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bayarearadio.org/sf-radio-history/kqw |title=Bay Area Radio Museum - The Charles Herrold Story |date=August 12, 2014}}</ref>]]
In 1980, ''Intelligent Machines Journal'' changed its name to ''[[InfoWorld]]'', and, with offices in [[Palo Alto, California|Palo Alto]], began covering the emergence of the microcomputer industry in the valley.<ref name=FireForward>{{cite book |first1=John |last1=Markoff |title=Foreword, Fire in the Valley |date=September 1999 |publisher=McGraw-Hill |isbn=978-0-07-135892-7 |pages=xi–xiii |edition=Updated |url=https://archive.org/details/fireinvalleymaki00frei_0}}</ref>

Local and national media cover Silicon Valley and its companies. CNN, ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', and Bloomberg News operate Silicon Valley bureaus out of Palo Alto. Public broadcaster [[KQED (TV)]] and [[KQED-FM]], as well as the Bay Area's local [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] station [[KGO-TV]], operate bureaus in San Jose. [[KNTV]], [[NBC]]'s local Bay Area affiliate "NBC Bay Area", is located in San Jose. Produced from this location is the nationally distributed TV Show "Tech Now" as well as the CNBC Silicon Valley bureau. San Jose-based media serving Silicon Valley include the ''[[San Jose Mercury News]]'' daily and the ''[[Metro Silicon Valley]]'' weekly.

Specialty media include ''[[El Observador (San Jose)|El Observador]]'' and the ''San Jose / Silicon Valley Business Journal''. Most of the Bay Area's other major TV stations, newspapers, and media operate in [[San Francisco]] or [[Oakland, California|Oakland]]. [[Patch.com]] operates various web portals, providing local news, discussion and events for residents of Silicon Valley. Mountain View has a public nonprofit station, KMVT-15. KMVT-15's shows include Silicon Valley Education News (EdNews)-Edward Tico Producer.