Media in the San Francisco Bay Area
James King of William began publishing the "Daily Evening Bulletin" in San Francisco in October, 1855 and built it into the highest circulation paper in the city. He criticized a city supervisor named James P. Casey, who, on the afternoon of the story about him, ran in the paper, shot and mortally wounded King. Casey was lynched by the early vigilante committee. The "Morning Call" was established and began publishing in December 1856, and later merged with the "Bulletin" to become the long-running "Call-Bulletin". The "San Francisco Chronicle" debuted in June, 1865 as the "Dramatic Chronicle", founded by Charles and M.H. de Young aged 19 and 17.
San Francisco Bay Area
The largest newspapers in the Bay Area are the "San Francisco Chronicle" and "San Jose Mercury News", the highest and second-highest most widely circulated newspaper in Northern California. "The Chronicle" is most famous for a former columnist, the late Herb Caen, whose daily musings attracted critical acclaim and represented the "voice of San Francisco". The "San Francisco Examiner", once the cornerstone of William Randolph Hearst's media empire and the home of Ambrose Bierce, declined in circulation over the years and now takes the form of a free daily tabloid, under new ownership. Most of the Bay Area's local regions and municipalities also have their own newspapers, such as the "East Bay Times" and "San Mateo Daily Journal". The national newsmagazine "Mother Jones" is also based in San Francisco. Non-English language newspapers include several Chinese-language papers such as "Sing Tao Daily", the largest in the Bay Area by circulation, and "El Mundo", a free Spanish-language weekly distributed by the "Mercury News".