Dan Pulcrano

Dan Pulcrano (born c. 1959) is a journalist, publisher, newspaper owner and Web executive in San Jose, California. He is CEO and executive editor of Metro Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley's alternative newsweekly, as well as its sister publications, Good Times, the North Bay Bohemian (Santa Rosa) and the Pacific Sun (Marin County). He also is also the founder of Boulevards, a network of city guides.

Born in suburban New Jersey, where his parents were school teachers, Pulcrano entered the publishing field while still in junior high, when he produced an underground newspaper at the Wardlaw Country Day School in Plainfield. He was asked to leave the school as a result and attended public schools afterwards, graduating at 16 and joining the staff of the San Diego Reader. At age 19, he went to Los Angeles to help publisher Jay Levin launch the LA Weekly.

After graduating from University of California at Santa Cruz, Pulcrano founded the Los Gatos Weekly in the Silicon Valley community of Los Gatos. Pulcrano served as publisher, editor and owner. In 1990, it merged with the Times-Observer into the Los Gatos Weekly-Times.

Three years after founding the Los Gatos Weekly, Pulcrano expanded his efforts into the greater Silicon Valley region with the launch of Metro Silicon Valley. Inspired by Levin's LA Weekly and the alt-weeklies that were then appearing in major American cities, Metro offers political reporting as well as calendar listings, music reviews and critical coverage of the performing and visual arts, as well as movie reviews. Based in downtown San Jose, which had been in a state of decline for two decades, Metro championed arts, independent cinema, small theater and retail revitalization in the city's core. Metro's investigative journalism was responsible in 2013 for the prosecution and conviction of Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr. on multiple felony corruption charges. The newspaper also sparked state Fair Political Practices Commission and Grand Jury investigations of San Jose City Councilman Xavier Campos' campaign activity and has reported over the past decade on the financial relationship between the nonprofit Working Partnerships USA and the South Bay Labor Council. The investigative reports were followed by attacks posted to an anonymous attack web site and on the day that Metro published an exposé on the use of monies raised for low income children's health care premiums to fund political campaigns, at a press conference which highlighted hyperlinks from Metro's web site to adult ads on the web site of online classified advertising provider Backpage.com.

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