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.
Media in the San Francisco Bay Area
The oldest African-American newspaper, still active in the 1930s, was the "California Eagle". It appeared first in Los Angeles in 1879. The first French journals, the "Californien" and the "Gazette Republicane" both began in 1850, and were followed by the "Courrier du Pacifique" in 1852. Both the first German and first Italian papers, the "California Demokrat" (1852) and the "Voce del Popolo" (1859) were founded in San Francisco and had long runs. Chinese in California have published many newspapers, the first being the "Gold Hills News" in 1854.