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 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".