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 Independent
The following August, the Hearst Corporation, owners of the "San Francisco Examiner" and the largest private publishers in the world, announced their purchase of the morning daily "San Francisco Chronicle". They also claimed the "San Francisco Examiner" was not a viable business operation and planned to shut it down. "The Independent" led an effort to keep the "Examiner" open, and ultimately the U.S. Department of Justice under Attorney General Janet Reno forced the Hearst’s to sell the "SF Examiner" to the Fang family in 2000.