San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. It was founded in 1865 as "The Daily Dramatic Chronicle" by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. The paper is currently owned by the Hearst Corporation, which bought it from the de Young family in 2000. It is the only major daily paper covering the city and county of San Francisco.
San Francisco newspaper strike of 1994
The striking journalists set up their own online newspaper, the "San Francisco Free Press", and competed with "The Gate" as "the soul of the Examiner and the Chronicle." Led by the "Examiner"'s Associate Editor Bruce Koon and former "SF Weekly" editor Marcelo Rodriguez, they received assistance from Cynsa Bonorris, who coded the html, and Dave Winer, who pitched in helping automate the production process. The team operated from a makeshift newsroom using their own hardware and a local ISP for rented server space.