Newspaper Columns

Scott Herhold retired from the Mercury News last November after 40 years with the newspaper. He  covered a parade of beats -- the Peninsula, county government, general assignment, redevelopment and venture capital. He did stints as an assistant city editor, a magazine writer, a political gossip columnist and a tech stocks writer.  For his last 14 years, he served as the paper's metro columnist, covering politics, crime, history and figures in the news.

 

Scott is a graduate of Yale, where he found his calling by covering cross-country for the Yale Daily News.  He has four grown children and three grandchildren. He and his wife, Sarah Janigian, live in San Jose's Hanchett Park neighborhood.  In retirement, he hopes to be tour guide and freelance writer.