San Francisco Chronicle
The "Chronicle" was founded by brothers Charles and M. H. de Young in 1865 as "The Daily Dramatic Chronicle", and inside of 10 years, it had the largest circulation of any newspaper west of the Mississippi River. The paper's first office was in a building at the corner of Bush and Kearney Streets. The brothers then commissioned a building from Burnham and Root at 690 Market Street at the corner of Third and Kearney Streets to be their new headquarters, in what became known as Newspaper Row. The new building, San Francisco's first skyscraper, was completed in 1889. It was damaged in the 1906 earthquake, but it was rebuilt under the direction of William Polk, Burnham's associate in San Francisco. That building, known as the "Old Chronicle Building" or the "DeYoung Building", still stands and was restored in 2007. It is an historic landmark and is the location of the Ritz-Carlton Club and Residences.
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.