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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.
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San Francisco
San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away, all named for St. Francis of Assisi. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856. San Francisco's status as the West Coast's largest city peaked between 1870 and 1900, when around 25% of California's population resided in the city proper. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a major port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. It then became the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, significant immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the "hippie" counterculture, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines.
Boston Chronicle
The Boston Chronicle was an American colonial newspaper published briefly from December 21, 1767 until 1770 in Boston, Massachusetts. The publishers, John Mein and John Fleeming, were both from Scotland. The "Chronicle" was a Loyalist paper in the time before the American Revolution. In its second year, Mein printed names in the paper that accused some colonial merchants of breaking a British nonimportation agreement. In response, Mein's name appeared on a list of merchants who violated the trade agreement. Mein retaliated by accusing the Merchants' Committee of using the nonimportation agreement for illegal profiteering. The irritated readership ransacked the offices of the "Chronicle", and ultimately, it ceased operations in 1770.
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".
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.
The California Sunday Magazine
"The California Sunday Magazine" was founded in October 2014 by Douglas McGray and Chas Edwards. The first issue was delivered to 400,000 households as an insert with the Sunday editions of the "Los Angeles Times", the "New York Times", the "Sacramento Bee", the "San Francisco Chronicle" and the "San Diego Union-Tribune".
M. H. de Young
In San Francisco, de Young and his brother, Charles de Young (1846–1880), founded the "Daily Dramatic Chronicle" newspaper, first published on January 17, 1865, with the loan of a twenty dollar gold piece which Michael received from his landlord. A third brother, Gustavus, whose initial originally appeared in the masthead ("G. and C. de Young"), later vanished. The "Daily Dramatic Chronicle" was a four page tabloid that was freely distributed throughout San Francisco. According to the de Youngs, the "Daily Dramatic Chronicle" would be “the best advertising medium on the Pacific Coast.” On September 1, 1868, the de Youngs expanded their tabloid into a daily newspaper. The first issue stated that the Chronicle would be "independent in all things, neutral in none." The "Daily Dramatic Chronicle" was sold under the condition that it be renamed the "Dramatic Review". De Young was also the director of the Associated Press for many years.
San Francisco Chronicle Magazine
"The San Francisco Examiner Magazine", also known as "Examiner Magazine", had won various awards in the years preceding its absorption by the Chronicle. In 2000, "India: Land of Marx and Maharjahs," by free-lance writer Adam Hochschild was given the Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in magazine reporting by the Society of Professional Journalists and a bronze medal from the Society of American Travel Writers' Lowell Thomas Awards for magazine writing on foreign travel. Also in 2000, the magazine was given several awards by the Sunday Magazine Editors Association: Second place in the essay category for "Boy's Life," by Theodore Roszak; third place in the overall design for Examiner Magazine art directors Josephine Rigg and Zahid Sardar; second place in the single spread design category for "Tale of the Tapes," about the Kennedy/Nixon tapes, went to Examiner artist Andrew Skwish; third place in the illustration category for "Boy's Life," Colin Johnson's illustration of Roszack's piece. At the time of these awards, Executive Editor of the Examiner Phil Bronstein said, ""The San Francisco Examiner Magazine" has become one of the top Sunday newspaper magazines in the country, offering our readers well-written and provocative articles accompanied by attractive, witty and sophisticated graphics." In 1999, the Examiner's magazine won several awards as part of the annual Gold Ink Awards: the magazine's fall "Destinations" issues won the Silver Award; the magazine's two spring and fall Home Design issues and a spring "Destinations" issue, edited by John Flinn, each won Pewter awards. The Gold Ink Awards are given for quality of printing. In 1998, the Examiner's magazine won four SunMag awards from the Sunday Magazine Editors Association: first place in Best Use of Illustration to Art Director Josephine Rigg and freelance illustrator Adam McCauley for a Bay to Breakers Race Day Map; third place in Overall Design to Rigg and Associate Art Director Zahid Sardar; Honorable Mention to Examiner Science Writer Keay Davidson for "Weird Science," about the 50th anniversary of the first "UFO sighting"'; Honorable Mention to writer Neal Gabler for a cover story about Walter Winchell and Herb Caen. Alluding the fact that many newspapers were cutting back or eliminating their Sunday magazines, Bronstein said at the time of the 1998 awards, "The Examiner bucked the national trend when we decided to revitalize our Sunday Magazine to provide more for our readers. We're honored to... [be] recognized by our peers from across the nation."
The Chronicle (Dominica)
The Chronicle is the national newspaper of the Caribbean island nation of Dominica. It was begun by Bishop Philip Schelfhaut in 1909 as the Dominica Chronicle, a bi-weekly publication. For many years afterward, it was known as "The New Chronicle" until it dropped the "New" from its title in 1996.
Sunday magazine
In 1869, the "San Francisco Chronicle" published what is regarded as the first Sunday magazine, and the "Chicago Inter Ocean" added color to its supplement. "The New York Times Magazine" was published on September 6, 1896, and it contained the first photographs ever printed in that newspaper. During the 1890s, publications were inserted into Joseph Pulitzer's "New York World" and William Randolph Hearst's "New York Journal". Hearst had the eight-page "Women's Home Journal" and the 16-page "Sunday American Magazine", which later became "The American Weekly". In November 1896, Morrill Goddard, editor of the "New York Journal" from 1896 to 1937, launched Hearst's Sunday magazine, later commenting, "Nothing is so stale as yesterday's newspaper, but "The American Weekly" may be around the house for days or weeks and lose none of its interest."
San Francisco Independent
Under new ownership, the Independent quickly took a more aggressive approach to growth and that summer launched a challenge to the largest and oldest community paper, the San Francisco Progress, by submitting a bid to publish the public notices for the city and becoming the Official Newspaper of San Francisco. Although the Independent was ultimately not successful in securing that advertising contract, the next year the scrappy newspaper was successful in pulling the bulk of the real estate community’s advertising away from the Progress and into a new publication printed by the Independent. Then, on December 15, 1988 the San Francisco Progress shut its doors, ceased publication and filed for bankruptcy. In six days, on December 21, 1988, the Independent converted from a tabloid size to the traditional broadsheet newspaper size and increased circulation from 80,000 to 180,000.
History of newspapers in California
The first newspaper published by Americans in California was "The Californian", printed in Monterey in 1846 announcing the Mexican–American War, written half in English and half Spanish. The press was moved to San Francisco and printing started up again on May 22, 1847 in competition with the weekly "California Star" published by Mormon pioneer Sam Brannan, beginning that January. Both efforts suspended publication in the face of the California Gold Rush. By August, "The Californian" had resumed publication, but by November 1848, both papers were bought and merged then renamed the Alta California. The press that once printed "The Californian" was moved to the Sacramento area to be used on the "Placer Times". The press was again moved and began publishing the Motherlode's first paper, the "Sonora Herald", then taken to Columbia to print the "Columbia Star". Within a few years of gold discovery, mother lode towns all had multiple competing journals.
The San Francisco Call
Between December 1856 and March 1895 "The San Francisco Call" was named "The Morning Call", but its name was changed when it was purchased by John D. Spreckels. In the period from 1863 to 1864 Mark Twain worked as one of the paper's writers. It was headquartered at Newspaper Row. The Morning Call was reported purchased by Charles M. Shortridge of the San Jose Mercury for $360,000 in January 1895. Shortridge became the sole proprietor and editor. He was elected to the California state legislature in 1898 representing the 28th district (San Jose).
Phil Bronstein
Hearst Corporation, the parent company of the Examiner, bought the "San Francisco Chronicle" in 2000. "The Chronicle" was the other major daily paper for the San Francisco Bay Area.
Flinders Island Chronicle
The Flinders Island Chronicle was an Australian newspaper founded in September 1836 and running until December 1837. It was jointly written and edited by Thomas Brune and Walter George Arthur. Twenty nine editions are currently known of. It is notable as being the first newspaper produced by Indigenous Australians.
San Francisco Bay View
The San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper is an online and print newspaper, published in San Francisco, California. It covers events from an African-American perspective, with a focus on Black liberation and coverage of worldwide racial inequality and political repression. From its founding in 1976 until 2008, the paper's distribution in its print edition extended to the larger San Francisco Bay Area. Its name refers to the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood.
History of Los Angeles
Remarkably, the Gabrielino Indians, now called Tongva, also survived. in 2006, the "Los Angeles Times" reported that there were 2,000 of them still living in Southern California. Some were organizing to protect burial and cultural sites. Others were trying to win federal recognition as a tribe to operate a casino. The city's first newspaper, "Star of Los Angeles", was a bilingual publication which began its run in 1851.
The Mercury News
The newspaper now known as the "Mercury News" began in 1851 or 1852. California legislators had just moved the state capital from San Jose to Vallejo, leading to the failure of San Jose's first two newspapers, the "Argus" and "State Journal". A group of three businessmen led by John C. Emerson bought the papers' presses to found the "San Jose Weekly Visitor". The "Weekly Visitor" began as a Whig paper but quickly switched its affiliation to the Democratic Party. It was renamed the "Santa Clara Register" in 1852. The following year, F. B. Murdoch took over the paper, merging it into the "San Jose Telegraph". W. A. Slocum assumed control of the "Telegraph" in 1860 and merged it with the "San Jose Mercury" or "Weekly Mercury" to become the "Telegraph and Mercury". William N. Slocum soon dropped "Telegraph" from the name. By this point, the "Mercury" was one of two newspapers publishing in San Jose.
Oakland Tribune
The newspapers of San Francisco were destroyed in the earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906. The "Tribune" printed many "extras." Dargie lent the "Tribune"s presses for a joint edition of the "San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle-Call." In the aftermath of the conflagration, San Francisco Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, declared the "Oakland Tribune" the official San Francisco newspaper.
The Daily News (San Francisco)
The Daily News, later titled The San Francisco News, was a newspaper published in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1903 by E. W. Scripps as a four-page penny paper. In its early years, it was the smallest of the several newspapers in San Francisco. It advertised itself as the "friend of the working man." It was distributed only in working class districts: Mission District, Skid Row, South of the Slot. It specialized in short, easy-to-read stories one to two paragraphs long. After the 1906 earthquake, it operated out of a former "relief house". In 1919 it had a circulation of about 18,000. It changed its name to "The San Francisco News" in 1927, and in August 1959 merged with Hearst's "The Call Bulletin" to form the "San Francisco News-Call Bulletin".
Art's Gallery
Art's Gallery is a daily comic strip by Art Finley which lasted from 1962 to 1981. It was featured in the "San Francisco Chronicle" during its run and was syndicated by Chronicle Features from 1962 to 1977, when it moved to Universal Press Syndicate until 1981. The strip consisted of 19th-century woodcut panels from the "Chronicle's" archives, to which Finley added humorous and contemporary captions.
Scott Newhall
Scott Newhall (January 21, 1914 – October 26, 1992) was a newspaper editor known for his stewardship of the "San Francisco Chronicle".
The Catholic Telegraph
The "Catholic Telegraph" was established on October 22, 1831, by Bishop Edward Fenwick, O.P., the Archdiocese's first bishop. Its first editor put the paper on a short hiatus the next fall to care for victims of a cholera outbreak. The paper's use of the word "telegraph" predated the invention of the communication device by over a decade. As one of the first Catholic newspapers in the nation, the "Telegraph" was sold in cities throughout the country's middle section, including Louisville, Kentucky, Baltimore, Maryland, Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Missouri, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From 1849–1861, "The Catholic Telegraph and Advocate" also served as the Diocese of Louisville's official newspaper.
List of tallest buildings in San Francisco
San Francisco's first skyscraper was the Chronicle Building, which was completed in 1890. M. H. de Young, owner of the "San Francisco Chronicle", commissioned Burnham and Root to design a signature tower to convey the power of his newspaper. Not to be outdone, de Young's rival, industrialist Claus Spreckels, purchased the "San Francisco Call" in 1895 and commissioned a tower of his own that would dwarf the Chronicle Building. The Call Building was completed in 1898 and stood across Market Street from the Chronicle Building. The Call Building (later named the Spreckels Building, and Central Tower today) would remain the city's tallest for nearly a quarter century.
Art Finley
From 1962 to 1981, the San Francisco Chronicle and scores of other North American newspapers published his syndicated daily panel "Art's Gallery", consisting of 19th Century woodcuts, to which Finley had written humorous modern-day captions. All 6200+ original panels are now in the archives of San Francisco State University.
Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine
The magazine was published monthly from July 1856 to June 1861, five volumes total. Although Yosemite was prominent, it was a magazine of general interest that focused on California's nascent tourist attractions. Each issue contained travel narratives, ranging from simple day trips out of San Francisco to arduous trans-Sierra treks. Longer articles were interspersed with shorter and lighter pieces, such as poetry and tables of interesting facts. The magazine popularized a number of well-known legendary stories of the West including the Pony Express, Grizzly Adams and Snowshoe Thompson. The story of the naming of Yosemite was first published in the magazine in an article by Lafayette Bunnell.
History of newspapers in California
On October 1, 1910, a bomb exploded at the L.A. Times building, killing 21 workers. Labor activists were blamed for the bombing, but the San Francisco "Daily News", a four-penny paper started in 1903, defended them. The "Daily News" joined the Scripps-Howard in 1921. "The People's World" began publishing in 1938, the first leftist daily published in the West.
American Magazine and Historical Chronicle
The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle (1743-1746) was a periodical in Boston, Massachusetts, printed by Rogers & Fowle (Gamaliel Rogers and Daniel Fowle), and published by Samuel Eliot and Joshua Blanchard. Scholars suggest that Jeremiah Gridley served as editor.
San Francisco Chronicle
The two newspapers produced a joint Sunday edition, with the "Examiner" publishing the news sections and the Sunday magazine and the "Chronicle" responsible for the tabloid entertainment section and the book review. From 1965 on the two papers shared a single classified-advertising operation. This arrangement stayed in place until the Hearst Corporation took full control of the "Chronicle" in 2000.
San Francisco Independent
The publication was founded in 1958 as a neighborhood newspaper called the "Lake Merced Independent". Marsha Fontes, a local historian, took the reins in 1979. She sold it to Ted Fang and the Fang family in 1987. As editor and publisher, Fang almost immediately began growing the "Independent", expanding from a tabloid format into a standard broadsheet size newspaper and extending distribution citywide in 1988. In 1993, Fang purchased a chain of weeklies in San Mateo County owned by the "Chicago Tribune" and in 1998 all the publications were re-branded as "The Independent". In 2000, the Fang family purchased the "SF Examiner" and the Fangs became the first Asian American family to run a major daily newspaper in America.
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
The "San Gabriel Valley Tribune" was launched on March 21, 1955 in West Covina, California. Before the launching, readers had to read community weeklies. The newspaper was founded by Carl Miller, his brother A.Q. Miller and Corwin Hoffland. Today, the newspaper moved its operations to Monrovia, after 60 years at the West Covina location. With the daily local news coverage which includes city government, public education, public safety, transportation issues, entertainment, lifestyle, and editorials. The newspaper received a number of awards include best in front page category from the California Newspaper Publishers Association among suburban area dailies. It publishes the annual So Cal Prep Legends high school football magazine with coverage from the San Fernando Valley, the San Gabriel/Pomona Valleys, the Whittier area, the South Bay, Long Beach/Gateway Cities, Orange County, western and central Riverside County and San Bernardino Valley, published in late August. The annual San Gabriel Valley's Best magazine, which publishes in late May, honors the best people, places to shop, eateries, and services in the region.
History of newspapers in California
Fremont Older became editor of the San Francisco "Bulletin" in 1895 and took up the struggle against the powerful Southern Pacific Railroad and along with a fellow Californian Lincoln Steffens, became a well known muckraker and the first objective observer to accuse District Attorney Charles Fickert for the framing of labor radical Thomas Mooney.
San Francisco Chronicle
As of 2018 the publisher of the "Chronicle" is Bill Nagel. Audrey Cooper was named editor-in-chief in January 2015 and is the first woman to hold the position. The editorial page editor is John Diaz. The Chronicle's free and breaking news website, SFGATE is managed by executive producer Brandon M. Mercer, who also oversees the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer".
The Chronicle (Katoomba)
"The Chronicle" was published weekly by Joseph Bennett and Edmund Collins (late editor of "The Katoomba Daily") at Bennett’s office and printery on the corner of Bathurst Road and Cascade Street, Katoomba. Beginning publication on Thursday 15 August 1929, it circulated in Katoomba, Blackheath and Leura for only nine issues. The editors spoke in their closing remarks of a “bitter campaign” waged against them from the start. "The Katoomba Daily", it seems, lowered the cost of advertising to levels "The Chronicle" could not match.
San Francisco (magazine)
"San Francisco Focus" was the recipient of a National Headliner Award for feature writing in 1993. In 1996, KQED sold "San Francisco Focus" to Diablo Publications in order to pay off debts. The magazine was spun off into an independent entity in January 1997. In October 1997, the magazine re-branded itself as simply "San Francisco". In 1999, new management took over and Editor-In-Chief Bruce Kelley arrived in June 2000. Under Kelley's leadership, "San Francisco" has been nominated for two National Magazine awards and has garnered three Maggies as Best City and Regional Magazine from the Western Publications Association (2006, 2007 and 2009). In 2005, "San Francisco" was sold to Modern Luxury Media (a nationwide conglomerate of city and lifestyle magazines).
San Francisco Chronicle
The newspaper grew in circulation to become the city's largest, overtaking the rival "San Francisco Examiner". The demise of other San Francisco dailies through the late 1950s and early 1960s left the "Examiner" and the "Chronicle" to battle for circulation and readership superiority.
John Bryan (journalist)
Bryan quit The "San Francisco Chronicle" in 1964 in order to found the weekly tabloid "Open City Press". "Open City Press" covered San Francisco's bohemian community. A local forerunner of the "Berkeley Barb", it provided coverage of the Free Speech Movement.
Chronicle of the 24 Generals
The Chronicle of the 24 Generals of the Order of the Friars Minor () is a medieval chronicle written in Latin around 1370, possibly by the Franciscan friar Arnaud de Sarrant, though Ralf Lützelschwab doubts this attribution. The work deals with the history of Franciscan Order from its foundation by Saint Francis of Assisi to Leonardo Rossi (1373–1378), the 24th Minister General if counting Francis as the first. The chronicle contains detailed accounts of various miracles and martyrs. For example, the Chronicle describes the deaths of Berard and his companions, the first Franciscan martyrs, killed in Morocco in 1221. Overall, the Chronicle was heavily used by later Franciscan historians.
San Jose Maverick
San Jose Maverick (later "Maverick") was an underground newspaper published in San Jose, California monthly from Feb. 1969 to Fall 1970. A total of 16 issues were published, in a tabloid format. Connected with the Bay Area Revolutionary Union and its local faction headed by Stanford University English professor H. Bruce Franklin, the Maverick was labor-oriented, and printed some articles in Spanish. Bruce Franklin contributed a number of articles under the pseudonym "Will B. Outlaw", including one entitled "The AK-47 vs. the M-16: Why the Capitalist Gun Is Inferior". In its second year of publication the paper shortened its title to "Maverick" starting with the Feb. 1970 issue (vol. 2, no. 2).
San Francisco Chronicle Magazine
In 2002, weekly production halted and the magazine became biweekly. "Chronicle Editor" Phil Bronstein told "Editor & Publisher" magazine that the newspaper was hemorrhaging money on the magazine but readers were furious about the halting of weekly publication. "We were getting completely hammered [financially]. But then we decided we ought to either kill it, or bring it back every week."
The Australasian Chronicle
First published on 2 August 1839, "The Australasian Chronicle" was published by Andrew Bent, for William Augustine Duncan, from 1839 - 1843. Its stated aim was "to explain and uphold the civil and religious principles of the Catholics, and to maintain their rights". The paper was started by Bishop Polding, OSB, and a learned Scottish immigrant, Duncan, a convert to Catholicism. It engaged in vigorous controversy in defence of Catholic interests. It had several name changes to "The Morning Chronicle", "The Chronicle" and "The Sydney Chronicle". It was eventually superseded by "The Freeman's Journal" which commenced publication on 27 June 1850.
Charles de Young
Charles de Young (January 8, 1846 – April 23, 1880), along with his younger brother M. H. de Young, founded the newspaper The Daily Dramatic Chronicle, which became the "San Francisco Chronicle", and was its editor-in-chief. He was murdered by Isaac M. Kalloch, son of Isaac S. Kalloch, the Mayor of San Francisco, in revenge for a feud Charles had with the mayor.
San Francisco Chronicle Magazine
In 2001 the magazine underwent a redesign as part of a general overhaul of the Sunday edition of the "Chronicle" with the professed goal, "to put [readers] in touch with where [they] live, and... to celebrate and highlight the rich tapestry of diversity that makes us unique." The redesigned magazine sported a "cleaned-up design" and five new departments. Bay Wrap, "a compendium of people, places and things," was put at the front of each edition, and Food, Fashion, Design and Neighborhoods, were put at the back of each edition.
Francisco Mora y Borrell
After the death of Amat on 12 May 1878, Mora took over the diocese. He served it for the next 18 years, during which time he worked to put the Catholic Church on a firm footing in the State of California. In 1895 he established "The Catholic Tidings", the first Catholic newspaper for Los Angeles.
The Waterford Chronicle
The Waterford Chronicle (1804-1872) was a paper from Waterford, Ireland. The paper was founded in 1804, known as Ramsy's Waterford Chronicle. In 1825 the Irish language scholar Philip Fitzgerald Barron bought the Waterford Chronicle, and used it to advocate for Catholic emancipation. The paper passed to his brother Pierse Richard Barron, was sold to a Mr Peter Strange, before being owned by another member of the Barron family, Edward Netterville Barron.
The paper struggled going through various owners, published twice weekly for a while, revived by Patrick Flyin in 1850, it then became a weekly in 1865
San Francisco newspaper strike of 1994
The striking journalists set up their own online newspaper, the "San Francisco Free Press", and competed with "The Gate" as "the soul of the Examiner and the Chronicle." Led by the "Examiner"'s Associate Editor Bruce Koon and former "SF Weekly" editor Marcelo Rodriguez, they received assistance from Cynsa Bonorris, who coded the html, and Dave Winer, who pitched in helping automate the production process. The team operated from a makeshift newsroom using their own hardware and a local ISP for rented server space.
San Francisco Chronicle
Another area of note is the architecture column by John King; the Chronicle is still one of the few American papers to present a regular column on architectural issues. The paper also has regular weekly sections devoted to Food & Home and Style.
San Francisco Chronicle Magazine
In 2003, the magazine underwent another redesign. In addition to returning to weekly publication, restaurant critic Michael Bauer's weekly reviews moved to the magazine from Sunday Datebook and Merl Reagle's popular crossword puzzle returned to the magazine after being moved to the Datebook when the magazine became biweekly. A weekly San Francisco/Bay Area focused literary essay was introduced inside the back cover and featured essays by the likes of Garrison Keillor. The fashion and design departments of the magazine were visually overhauled for a "brand-new look." The magazine's paper stock was upgraded to a heavier grade for improved display of photography. According to published letters in the Chronicle, the 2003 redesign was quite popular among readers, with many specifically hailing the return of Reagle's crossword puzzle.
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.
San Francisco Chronicle Magazine
The "San Francisco Chronicle" was the first newspaper in the country to introduce a Sunday magazine when it did so in 1869 with the aim of providing a "literary dimension" to the newspaper. That magazine, however, ended sometime prior to the Chronicle's absorption of the "Examiner" staff and the creation of the current "San Francisco Chronicle Magazine".
San Francisco Chronicle
The online versions of the newspaper are at SFGate.com (free) and SFChronicle.com (premium). As well as publishing the "San Francisco Chronicle" online, SFGate and SFChronicle.com add other features not available in the print version, such as blogs and podcasts. SFGate was one of the earliest major market newspaper websites to be launched, having done so in 1994, at the time of The Newspaper Guild strike; meanwhile the union published its own news website, "San Francisco Free Press". SFGate is the fifth largest newspaper website in America with over 33 million unique visitors each month.
Chung Sai Yat Po
Chung Sai Yat Po (), also known as China West Daily and Zhong Sai Yat Bo was a Chinese language newspaper founded by Ng Poon Chew (伍盤照) and published in San Francisco, California from 1900 to 1951. It was a major Chinese language daily newspaper in San Francisco and helped to shape the Chinese community in San Francisco's Chinatown. The paper helped the Chinese to “break through their social and cultural isolation” to become Americans and reduced the gap between the Chinese community and mainstream American society. It was a financially independent and non-party-affiliated newspaper that cultivated discussions on community economic and social development. "Chung Sai Yat Po" was one of the longest running and most popular Chinese language daily newspapers in the United States.
Eulogio F. de Celis
De Celis was editor of the Spanish-language newspaper "La Cronica," which had been founded in Los Angeles in 1872. In 1878 he was publishing a newspaper called "La Reforma," and he was attacked editorially by the "Los Angeles Daily Herald," which said he had not paid a bill owed to the "Herald" for printing his newspaper. "He can come and pay the charges overdue for presswork and take his forms away, and this time he must keep them away, for he is such bad pay that we shall no longer subject ourselves to the worry of the job."
Cornell Chronicle
Prior to the founding of the "Chronicle" in 1969, campus news was reported by the "Cornell Era" and then by "The Cornell Daily Sun". During the Willard Straight Hall takeover in April 1969, the campus learned of unfolding events through the student-edited "Sun", the student radio station WVBR, and the independently owned "Cornell Alumni News." However, Cornell's administration, most notably then-Vice President for Public Affairs Steven Muller, was dissatisfied because those media reported events in a manner that was somewhat critical of the administration. Over the summer, plans for the "Chronicle" were put in place and it debuted on September 25, 1969. The "Chronicle"s first office was in the basement of the Edmund Ezra Day Hall administration building, and Kal Lindenburg, a "Sun" alumnus, was hired as its first Managing Editor. It was printed every Wednesday during the school year as a newsprint broadside on the presses of the "Ithaca Journal".
Houston Chronicle
The "Houston Chronicle" was founded in 1901 by a former reporter for the now-defunct "Houston Post", Marcellus E. Foster. Foster, who had been covering the Spindletop oil boom for the "Post", invested in Spindletop and took $30 of the return on that investment — at the time equivalent to a week's wages — and used it to fund the "Chronicle".
San Diego Daily Journal
The San Diego Daily Journal was a daily newspaper in San Diego, California. It was published by Clinton D. McKinnon from 1944-1947, with short runs or a single issue in 1950. It was preceded by the "San Diego Progress-Journal".
SF Weekly
SF Weekly is a free alternative weekly newspaper in San Francisco, California. The newspaper, distributed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area every Thursday, is published by the San Francisco Newspaper Company. Founded locally in the late 1970s by Christopher Hildreth and Edward Bachman and originally named ‘San Francisco Music Calendar, the Magazine or Poster Art’, Christopher saw a need for local artists to have a place to advertise performances and articles. The key feature was the centerfold calendar listings for local art events. Bought by Village Voice Media (then New Times Media) in 1995, "SF Weekly" has garnered notable national journalism awards. The paper sponsored the "SF Weekly" Music Awards, also known as the "Wammies."
San Francisco Bay Times
Founders of the "San Francisco Bay Times" in 1978 were Roland Schembari and Bill Hartman. Kim Corsaro served as editor and publisher from 1981 to 2011. The first issue of the paper states that the publication would be created jointly and equally by gay men and lesbians working together, and this goal has remained a key purpose of the paper continuing to the present. In 2018 the San Francisco Bay Times is observing its 40th Anniversary (1978-2018) with a variety of events planned.
Angelus (magazine)
Angelus is a weekly magazine published jointly by The Tidings Corporation and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the most populous Catholic archdiocese in the United States. The magazine began publication in 1895 as a newspaper named "The Tidings" and is the oldest continuously published Catholic periodical on the west coast of the United States. It is also the oldest weekly periodical in the Los Angeles market. The last issue of "The Tidings" was published in June 2016; in July 2016 it was transformed into the multimedia news platform "Angelus" (AKA "Angelus News").
San Francisco Chronicle
In February 2009, Hearst chief executive Frank A. Bennack Jr., and Hearst President Steven R. Swartz, announced that the "Chronicle" had lost money every year since 2001 and more than $50 million in 2008. Without major concessions from employees and other cuts, Hearst would put the papers up for sale and if no buyer was found, shut the paper. San Francisco would have become the first major American city without a daily newspaper. The cuts were made.
San Francisco newspaper strike of 1994
The San Francisco newspaper strike of 1994 was a labor dispute called by the Newspaper Guild in November 1994. Employees of San Francisco's two major daily newspapers, the "San Francisco Chronicle" and "The San Francisco Examiner" walked off the job for eleven days.
The San Francisco Examiner
Through the middle third of the twentieth century, the "Examiner" was one of several dailies competing for the city's and the Bay Area's readership; the San Francisco "News", the San Francisco "Call-Bulletin", and the "Chronicle" all claimed significant circulation, but ultimately attrition left the "Examiner" one chief rival — the "Chronicle". Strident competition prevailed between the two papers in the 1950s and 1960s; the "Examiner" boasted, among other writers, such columnists as veteran sportswriter Prescott Sullivan, the popular Herb Caen, who took an eight-year hiatus from the "Chronicle" (1950–1958), and Kenneth Rexroth, one of the best-known men of California letters and a leading San Francisco Renaissance poet, who contributed weekly impressions of the city from 1960 to 1967. Ultimately, circulation battles ended in a merging of resources between the two papers.
San Francisco Chronicle
In spite of, or perhaps because of the threats, the loss of readers and advertisers accelerated. On October 26, 2009, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported that the "Chronicle" had suffered a 25.8% drop in circulation for the six-month period ending September 2009, to 251,782 subscribers, the largest percentage drop in circulation of any major newspaper in the United States. "Chronicle" publisher Frank Vega said the drop was expected as the paper moved to earn more from higher subscription fees from fewer readers. In May 2013, Vega retired and was replaced as publisher by former "Los Angeles Times" publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson. SFGate, the main digital portal for the "San Francisco Chronicle", registered 19 million unique visitors in January 2015, making it the seventh ranked newspaper website in the United States.
San Francisco Chronicle Magazine
The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine is a Sunday magazine published on the first Sunday of every month as an insert in the "San Francisco Chronicle". The current magazine was born out of the ashes of "The San Francisco Examiner Magazine" when the staff of the "Chronicle" and "The San Francisco Examiner" were combined in 2000 following the sale of the "Examiner".
The Toowoomba Chronicle
The "Darling Downs Gazette", founded at Drayton by Arthur Sidney Lyon, began publication in a wooden shanty on 10 June 1858. It moved to the burgeoning town of Toowoomba and merged with "The Chronicle" in 1922. The "Chronicle", founded by Darius Hunt, began as a fourpenny weekly on 4 July 1861 in a coachbuilder's shop in James Street. On 4 February 1876, William Groom became sole proprietor, beginning nearly half a century of family control of a newspaper that he transformed into a powerful and persuasive political weapon.
San Francisco Oracle
A monthly psychedelic Los Angeles paper with neopagan overtones, called "The Oracle of Southern California", existed for about a year; the first issue was published as "The City of Los Angeles Oracle" in March 1967. Some members of the SF Oracle collective were involved in starting another paper, "San Francisco Express Times," which published from January 24, 1968 to March 25, 1969, at which time the paper's name was changed to "San Francisco Good Times," appearing under that title from April 1969 to August 1972. In 1967 students at San Francisco State College distributed a one-off eight-page tabloid parody of the "Oracle" called the "Orifice," edited by Ben Fong-Torres.
Bartholomew Dowling
In March 1858, P. J. Thomas, an enterprising publisher and one of the founders of the "San Francisco Monitor", induced Dowling to quit the seclusion of Crucita Valley in Contra Costa County and move to San Francisco and work on that newspaper. Dowling became editor of the "San Francisco Monitor", at a time when he was in poor health. However, he continued his writing, which "displayed a vigor and versatility that gave evidence of what he was capable of accomplishing under more favorable circumstances".
Dowling's death on November 20, 1863 resulted from his being thrown from a buggy and having his leg broken. His health previous to this shock had been declining, and he died in St. Mary's Hospital of San Francisco.
Los Angeles Herald-Express
The "Los Angeles Daily Herald" was first published on October 2, 1873, by Charles A. Storke. The "Herald" was the first newspaper in Southern California to use the innovative steam press; the newspaper's offices at 125 South Broadway were popular with the public because large windows on the ground floor allowed passersby to see the presses in motion. William Ivan "Ike" St. Johns and Adela Rogers St. Johns, a popular husband and wife reporting team, were among the notable "Herald" staff in the early years. Storke lost the paper to creditors, who together formed the Los Angeles City and County Publishing Company in 1874. The "Herald" continued to focus on local news including agriculture, business, and culture. Under the leadership of Robert M. Widney, the paper's circulation increased dramatically. Widney interviewed local farmers and business owners for free and used this information to report on the region. The "Los Angeles Weekly Herald", making use of this material, sold over 1,000 copies a week. Beginning in the teens and guided by the Hearst-trained editors Edwin R. Collins and John B. T. Campbell, the local coverage for which the "Herald" was known started to emphasize scandal, crime, and the emerging Hollywood scene. By the 1920s, editors Wes Barr and James H. Richardson were so well known for their investigative reporting that they became the prototypes for the morally ambiguous, chain-smoking reporters who figured in so many film noir movies of the 1930s. In 1922, the "Herald" officially joined the Hearst News empire, although several sources suggest that Hearst had secretly purchased the paper in 1911 when Collins and Campbell took the helm. In 1931, Hearst merged the "Los Angeles Daily Herald" with the "Los Angeles Evening Express" to form the "Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express", which was then the largest circulating evening newspaper west of the Mississippi.
Chronicle Live
The show was announced in February 2009, as part of a revamping of the CSN Bay Area lineup. Previously, the channel (then Fox Sports Net Bay Area) was mainly just for airing local sports telecasts and FSN original programming. When the channel was re-launched in April 2008 as CSN Bay Area, plans were announced to have a news show for all Bay Area sports. It was then announced that sports talk show would premiere as well, and would be hosted by Greg Papa. The show is named for the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, as the show's panel is composed primarily of columnists from the Chronicle. However, writers from the MediaNews Group (mainly the San Jose Mercury News, Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times) and the Sacramento Bee also frequent the show.
The Portuguese Tribune
The Portuguese Tribune was the 28th Portuguese newspaper to be founded in California since A Voz Portuguesa (Portuguese Voice) in 1884 in San Francisco. The Portuguese Tribune was the first Portuguese newspaper in California since the Capelinhos Volcano wave of immigration from the Azores Islands. Since then, others were established, but none other than The Portuguese Tribune has survived: Notícia (News) 1985-1986, Portugal-USA 1986-1987, Luso-Americano California 1992-1995, Portuguese-American Chronicle 1997-2006, and Lusitania News 2006. Even the old Jornal Portugues (Portuguese Journal), a merger of three earlier newspapers—O Imparcial (The Impartial) 1903-1932, Jornal de Noticias 1917-1932 (but previously O Arauto since 1896), and Colonia Portugueza (Portuguese Colony) 1924-1932) -- ceased to exist in 1997 after over a century of publication.
Earthweek
The feature premiered in the "San Francisco Chronicle" on Saturday, January 2, 1988, and began syndication through the now-defunct Chronicle Features in early September of that year.
California magazine
California Magazine is a general-interest magazine and website that covers the news, issues, discoveries, and people of the University of California, Berkeley. It was founded in 1897 and is published by the Cal Alumni Association, a non-profit organization. The print edition is published four times annually. Wendy Miller, formerly of the "Los Angeles Times" and the "San Francisco Chronicle", is the editor-in-chief. "California Magazine" contributors have included Michael Pollan, Pat Joseph, Seth Rosenfeld, Jon Carroll, Sophie Brickman, Yousur Alhlou, Chris A. Smith, and Sandy Tolan.
Cambridge Chronicle
The Cambridge Chronicle is a weekly newspaper that serves Cambridge, Massachusetts. The newspaper was founded by Andrew Reid in May 1846 and is the oldest surviving weekly newspaper in the United States. Owned by GateHouse Media, it serves 18% of Cambridge's households.
San Francisco
The major daily newspaper in San Francisco is the "San Francisco Chronicle", which is currently Northern California's most widely circulated newspaper. 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. "Sing Tao Daily" claims to be the largest of several Chinese language dailies that serve the Bay Area. "SF Weekly" is the city's alternative weekly newspaper. "San Francisco Magazine" and "7x7" are major glossy magazines about San Francisco. The national newsmagazine "Mother Jones" is also based in San Francisco.
Chronicle Publishing Company
What would become Chronicle Publishing Company was formed on January 16, 1865 when teenage brothers Charles and Michael Henry "M. H." de Young published the first edition of the "Daily Dramatic Chronicle", a venture funded by a borrowed $20 gold piece. The paper began with a circulation of two thousand readers daily, which tripled within six months as the paper gained readership in the wake of its breaking the news of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln to San Francisco. In September 1868, the paper changed its name to the "Morning Chronicle".
San Francisco Foghorn
The newspaper was founded in 1903 as "The Saint Ignatius". It changed its name to the "San Francisco Foghorn" in August 1928, and is one of the oldest collegiate newspapers on the West Coast. The "Foghorn" has continuously run weekly issues every semester. It has a readership of 5,000 and is distributed free on campus. In 2004 it was ranked 14th in collegiate newspapers in the nation by "The Princeton Review". The Foghorn Online Edition was started in 1995.
San Francisco Chronicle
The competition between the "Chronicle" and "Examiner" took a financial toll on both papers until the summer of 1965, when a merger of sorts created a Joint Operating Agreement under which the "Chronicle" became the city's sole morning daily while the "Examiner" changed to afternoon publication (which ultimately led to a declining readership).
The Chronicle (Willimantic)
Born in 1857, John Anthony MacDonald had learned the newspaper business at the weekly Windham County Transcript in the eastern Connecticut town of Danielson, near his birthplace of Brooklyn, Connecticut. A 1920 history of Windham described him as a “a promotor and a plunger, who took chances. He saved his money to go West and start his own weekly newspaper.” MacDonald's westward destiny took him all of 18 miles to Willimantic. He decided that the young city might support a second daily newspapers besides "The Willimantic Journal", which had been established in 1848 and would ultimately cease publication on January 27, 1911. MacDonald initially took a job in the printing shop of C. C. Crandall on Main Street. MacDonald's name inadvertently first appeared in the "Enterprise" on October 4, 1878, when it was reported that he's been badly injured when his hand got caught in Crandall's press. Early in the fall of 1879, MacDonald bought half of the "Enterprise" from Safford plus invested additional capital to purchase new equipment: a steam-powered press. the "Enterprise" then moved to the H.C. Hall building at 60 Union Street and MacDonald became its editor and Safford its publisher.
San Francisco Chronicle
Between World War II and 1971, new editor Scott Newhall took a bold and somewhat provocative approach to news presentation. Newhall's "Chronicle" included investigative reporting by such journalists as Pierre Salinger, who later played a prominent role in national politics, and Paul Avery, the staffer who pursued the trail of the self-named "Zodiac Killer", who sent a cryptogram in three sections in letters to the "Chronicle" and two other papers during his murder spree in the late 1960s. It also featured such colorful columnists as Pauline Phillips, who wrote under the name "Dear Abby," "Count Marco" (Marc Spinelli), Stanton Delaplane, Terence O'Flaherty, Lucius Beebe, Art Hoppe, Charles McCabe, and Herb Caen.
Carl Nolte
He started working at the "San Francisco Chronicle" on June 13, 1961. He has served as a writer and an editor. He was a war correspondent. For the newspaper, he has written about the "SS Jeremiah O'Brien" when it sailed to Europe as part of the D-Day anniversary, the Gulf War and the Invasion of Iraq. In 2012, he was given an Award of Merit by the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society.
Chronicle of Cambridge
The Chronicle of Cambridge or Cambridge Chronicle, also known as the Tarʾīkh Jazīrat Ṣiqilliya ("History of the Island of Sicily"), is a short, anonymous medieval chronicle covering the years 827–965. It is the earliest native Sicilian chronicle of the emirate of Sicily, and was written from the perspective of a Sicilian Christian of the 10th or 11th century. It survives in two versions: a Greek version in two manuscripts and an Arabic version in one. For years only the Arabic text kept in Cambridge University Library was known, but in 1890 a Greek redaction was discovered. The Greek texts are found in the Vatican Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Codex Parisinus Graecus 920). It has been translated into English, Italian and French.
Ritz-Carlton Club and Residences
In 1888, M. H. de Young, owner of the "San Francisco Chronicle", commissioned Burnham and Root to design a signature building to house his newspaper. Finished in 1890, the Chronicle Building stood ten stories, with a clock tower reaching in height, becoming San Francisco's first skyscraper and the tallest building on the West Coast.
The Jewish Chronicle
The Jewish Chronicle first appeared on 12 November 1841. Its first editors were D. Meldola and M. Angel. It was first issued as a weekly until May 1842, when it was suspended. From October 1844 it was resumed as a fortnightly, with Joseph Mitchell as its editor. In 1847 it became again a weekly newspaper. A. Benisch, who became the proprietor and editor in 1855, bequeathed the paper to the Anglo-Jewish Association in 1878, who sold it to its new editor and anti-Zionist Asher I. Myers, Sydney M. Samuel and Israel David.
The San Francisco Examiner
After the great earthquake and fire of 1906 destroyed much of San Francisco, the "Examiner" and its rivals — the "San Francisco Chronicle" and the "San Francisco Call" — brought out a joint edition. The "Examiner" offices were destroyed on April 18, 1906, but when the city was rebuilt, a new structure, the Hearst Building, arose in its place at Third and Market streets. It opened in 1909, and in 1937 the facade, entranceway and lobby underwent an extensive remodeling designed by architect Julia Morgan.
Central Tower (San Francisco)
In 1890, M. H. de Young, owner of the "San Francisco Chronicle", built San Francisco's first skyscraper, the Chronicle Building, to house his newspaper. In response, John D. Spreckels and his father Claus Spreckels purchased the "San Francisco Call" in 1895 and commissioned a tower of their own that would dwarf the Chronicle Building. In September 1895, "The Call" wrote:
Media in the San Francisco Bay Area
Noted journalists, writers, cartoonists and publishers have passed through San Francisco's media world, including:By the early decades of the 20th century, San Francisco supported four major dailies and numerous influential weeklies. The dailies were the "San Francisco Call" (later "Call-Bulletin"), the "San Francisco Examiner", the "San Francisco Chronicle" and the Scripps-Howard-owned "Daily News". The weeklies included the "Wasp", the "Argonaut", the "Labor Clarion", the "Coast Seamen's Journal", "Emanu-el", "Liberator" and the "News Letter".
Samuel Brannan
Brannan used his press to establish the "California Star" as the first newspaper in San Francisco, which released its first formal issue on January 9, 1847. It was the second paper in California, following "The Californian" founded in Monterey and first published on August 15, 1846. The two joined to become "The Daily Alta California" in 1848 after Brannan sold the paper to a colleague.
The San Bernardino Sun
"The San Bernardino Sun" was first printed in 1894. Times Mirror, the owner of the "Los Angeles Times", bought the paper in 1964, but was ordered to sell it due to antitrust concerns. Gannett purchased the paper in 1968. MediaNews Group took control of the paper from Gannett in 1999. This made the "Sun" sister newspaper to the "Times"' rival, the "Los Angeles Daily News". "The San Bernardino Sun" is a member of Southern California News Group.
Larchmont Chronicle
In 1963, two young women canvassed the Larchmont area in Los Angeles to start a community newspaper. The first issue of the Larchmont Chronicle was mailed to 10,000 families in the upper income areas of Hancock Park and Windsor Square. The women, Dawne Goodwin and Jane Gilman, secured 28 advertisers for the first 12-page issue. They each earned $250 on the first issue, and the paper has been in the black ever since. Dawne Goodwin retired in 1997, moved to Fallbrook, California, and died on October 14, 2012. The Chronicle later expanded its coverage and is now hand-delivered in a plastic bag to 21,000 households. On May 1, 2015, Gilman sold the paper to attorney and neighborhood resident John Welborne; Gilman remains a contributing editor.
History of newspapers in California
San Jose, California's first city, has one of the oldest newspapers in the state. The "San Jose Mercury" was founded in 1851 as the "San Jose Weekly Visitor", while the "San Jose News" was founded in 1883. In 1942 the Mercury purchased the News and continued publishing both newspapers, with the Mercury as the morning paper and the News as the evening paper. In 1983 the papers were merged into the "San Jose Mercury News", with morning and afternoon editions. Eventually the less-popular afternoon edition was dropped, so at present the newspaper publishes only as a morning paper. The newspaper has earned several awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes, one in 1986 for reporting regarding political corruption in the Ferdinand Marcos administration in the Philippines, and one in 1989 for their comprehensive coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake. The Mercury News was also named one of the five best-designed newspapers in the world by the Society for News Design for work done in 2001.
The Californian (1860s newspaper)
The Californian was a San Francisco literary newspaper published weekly from May 28, 1864 until February 1, 1868.
Houston Chronicle
The "Chronicle's" first edition was published on October 14, 1901 and sold for two cents per copy, at a time when most papers sold for five cents each. At the end of its first month in operation, the "Chronicle" had a circulation of 4,378 — roughly one tenth of the population of Houston at the time. Within the first year of operation, the paper purchased and consolidated the "Daily Herald".
The San Francisco Examiner
William Randolph Hearst hired S.S. (Sam) Chamberlain, who had started the first American newspaper in Paris, as managing editor and Arthur McEwen as editor, and changed the "Examiner" from an evening to a morning paper. Under him, the paper's popularity increased greatly, with the help of such writers as Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and the San Francisco-born Jack London, and also through the "Examiner" version of yellow journalism, with ample use of foreign correspondents and splashy coverage of scandals such as two entire pages of cables from Vienna about the Mayerling Incident; satire; and patriotic enthusiasm for the Spanish–American War and the 1898 annexation of the Philippines. William Randolph Hearst created the masthead with the "Hearst Eagle" and the slogan "Monarch of the Dailies" by 1889 at the latest.
San Francisco Chronicle
The paper benefited from the growth of San Francisco and was the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the United States by 1880. Like many other newspapers, it has experienced a rapid fall in circulation in the early 21st century, and was ranked 24th by circulation nationally for the six months to March 2010. The newspaper publishes two web sites: SFGate, which has a mixture of online news and web features, and sfchronicle.com, which more closely reflects the type of articles that typically appear in print.
Bad Reporter
Bad Reporter is a semi-weekly editorial cartoon in comic strip format
that first appeared in the "San Francisco Chronicle" on September 25, 2003. After being syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate from August 12, 2005 to 2011, it is now distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication.
J. The Jewish News of Northern California
It began publishing as a San Francisco newspaper named The Emanu-El on December 22, 1895, and in 1932 it merged with the "Jewish Journal", a competing Jewish newspaper. In 1946, following a merger, it changed its name to the Jewish Community Bulletin, in 1979 it was renamed the San Francisco Jewish Bulletin, in 1984 it was renamed the Northern California Jewish Bulletin, in 2003 it was renamed j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California, and in 2017 it was renamed J. The Jewish News of Northern California.
History of newspapers in California
The history of newspapers in California dates back to 1846, with the first publication of "The Californian" in Monterey. Since then California has been served by a large number of newspapers based in many different cities.
Chronicle Features
The Chronicle Features Syndicate was formed in 1962 to syndicate the "San Francisco Chronicle"'s star columnists. Chronicle Features' first comic strips were Dan O'Neill's "Odd Bodkins" and Bill Weber's "Doctor Funshine", both launched in 1963. "Doctor Funshine" lasted four years, but O'Neill's more successful "Odd Bodkins" had a tumultuous end in 1970 that coincided with O'Neill's activities with the underground comix group the Air Pirates.
Cambridge Chronicle
The "Cambridge Chronicle" was first published on May 7, 1846. A few days before, Cambridge was incorporated as a city, and Scotsman Andrew Reid seized on the opportunity to publish a weekly newspaper. Cambridge was home to the first printing press in the Colonies, and nearby Boston was home to the first newspaper. The "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" was founded in 1690, albeit short-lived. But beginning in the 18th century, Boston developed a vibrant newspaper industry.
Chronicle Features
Chronicle Features was the syndication arm of the "San Francisco Chronicle". Syndicating comic strips, newspaper columns, and editorial features, it operated from 1962 to c. 1998. The syndicate was known for the offbeat comic strips it championed, such as Gary Larson's "The Far Side", Dan Piraro's "Bizarro", and the editorial cartoons of Ted Rall. The service was acquired by Universal Press Syndicate in 1997 and went defunct soon after.