EL MENSAJERO or The Messenger is a Spanish only newspaper in whose distribution area encompasses the entire San Francisco Bay (San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose) since 1987. (333 Valencia Street). Its headquarters, which is the main newspaper, is in San Francisco (333 Valencia Street).
The paper is weekly, editing the Sunday with a weekly circulation of 110,546 copies according to Synovate 2006 and 157,580 weekly readers.
The Messenger is part of ImpreMedia, which is the publishing company's largest Spanish newspaper in the United States. Its content is geared to the Hispanic community and distribution includes door-to-door delivery.

The website contains much national and international news as well some local news reporting especially if it is regional or of a national interest to the its Latin audience.