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{{Infobox_Newspaper |name = |image = |caption = The
2005-07-27 front page of
"The Voice of the West" ] |format =
Broadsheet ] 0.46 + Sales taxes in the United States#California Daily
US$ 1.38 + tax Sunday |owners =
Hearst Corporation|publisher = Frank J. Vega|editor = Phil Bronstein |circulation = 386,564 Daily
438,006 Sunday|headquarters = 901 Mission Street
San Francisco, California, California 94103 ] and
M. H. de Young. The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the
West Coast of the United States of the
United States by
1880, and today is Northern California's largest
newspaper, serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area, but distributed throughout Northern California, including the Sacramento, California area and Redwood Empire.
History
Between
World War II and 1965, thanks to new editor Scott Newhall and colorful columnists including
Pauline Phillips, who wrote under the name "
Dear Abby," Charles McCabe, and Herb Caen, the newspaper grew in circulation to become the city's largest, overtaking the rival
San Francisco Examiner.The de Young family controlled the paper, via the Chronicle Publishing Company, until
July 27, 2000, when it was sold to Hearst Corporation, who owned the
Examiner. Following the sale, the Hearst Corporation transferred the
Examiner to the Fang family, publisher of the
San Francisco Independent and
Asian Week, along with a $66 million dollar subsidy. Under the new owners, the
Examiner became a free
tabloid, leaving the
Chronicle as the only daily
broadsheet newspaper in San Francisco.
As of 2005 the publisher of the
Chronicle is Frank J. Vega, the executive vice president and editor is Phil Bronstein and the editorial page editor is John Diaz. The publishers of the Chronicle prior to Frank Vega included
George Cameron (1925-1955),
Charles de Young Thieriot (1955-1977), and Richard Tobin Thieriot (1977-1994), among others.
The online version of the newspaper, SFGate, is led by vice president Peter Negulescu and news director Vlae Kershner. As well as publishing the
San Francisco Chronicle online, SFGate adds other features not available in the Publishing version, such as blogs and podcasts. SFGate was one of the earliest major market newspaper websites to be launched, having done so in
1993.
The paper has received the Pulitzer Prize on a number of occasions. Despite an illustrious and long history, the paper's news reportage is not as extensive as in the past. The current day
Chronicle has followed the trend of other American newspapers, devoting increasing attention to local and regional news and cultural and entertainment criticism to the detriment of the paper's traditionally strong national and international reportage, though the paper does maintain a Washington DC bureau. This increased focus on local news is a response to the competition from other Bay Area newspapers including the resurrected
San Francisco Examiner, the
Oakland Tribune, the
Contra Costa Times and the
San Jose Mercury News.
Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada received the
George Polk Awards for Sports Reporting.
Fainaru-Wada and Williams were recognized for their work on uncovering the BALCO scandal, which linked San Francisco Giants star
Barry Bonds to performance-enhancing drugs. While the two above-named reporters broke the news, they are by no means the only sports writers of note at the Chronicle. The Chronicle's sports section--called
The Sporting Green as it was once printed on green-tinted pages--is staffed with two dozen writers. The section's best-known writers are its columnists: Bruce Jenkins, Gwenn Knapp, Scott Ostler, and Ray Ratto.
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 & Garden', and 'Wine', the latter of which is unique. The Sunday editions contain a
San Francisco Chronicle Magazine that regularly focuses on the previously mentioned topics. In early 2006 a new section, ' 96 Hours', was added to the Thursday edition of the paper, covering entertainment from that day through Sunday.
Circulation has fallen precipitously since the heyday of the
dot-com bubble from 1997 to 2001. The Chronicle's circulation dropped by 16.6% between 2004 and 2005 to 400,906; in 2006, daily circulation dropped to 373,805.In response, the newspaper has cut back on local news coverage and takes many national and international stories from the
Associated Press instead of relying on
Chronicle correspondents. There have also been major cutbacks in staff, with one fourth of the newsroom being let go in 2007. At the same time, the online edition has continued its growth and in 2006 SFGate was fifth among U.S. newspaper websites with 5.2 million unique users per month.
Notes
External links
- SFGate: Online version of the newspaper, contains freely searchable archive of all articles since 1995
- Hearst subsidiary profile of the San Francisco Chronicle
{{Infobox_Newspaper |name = |image = |caption = The
2005-07-27 front page of
"The Voice of the West" ] |format =
Broadsheet ] 0.46 + Sales taxes in the United States#California Daily
US$ 1.38 + tax Sunday |owners =
Hearst Corporation|publisher = Frank J. Vega|editor = Phil Bronstein |circulation = 386,564 Daily
438,006 Sunday|headquarters = 901 Mission Street
San Francisco, California,
California 94103 ] and
M. H. de Young. The paper grew along with
San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the
West Coast of the United States of the United States by
1880, and today is Northern California's largest newspaper, serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area, but distributed throughout Northern California, including the Sacramento, California area and
Redwood Empire.
History
Between
World War II and 1965, thanks to new editor Scott Newhall and colorful columnists including
Pauline Phillips, who wrote under the name "
Dear Abby,"
Charles McCabe, and
Herb Caen, the newspaper grew in circulation to become the city's largest, overtaking the rival
San Francisco Examiner.The de Young family controlled the paper, via the
Chronicle Publishing Company, until
July 27,
2000, when it was sold to Hearst Corporation, who owned the
Examiner. Following the sale, the Hearst Corporation transferred the
Examiner to the Fang family, publisher of the
San Francisco Independent and
Asian Week, along with a $66 million dollar subsidy. Under the new owners, the
Examiner became a free tabloid, leaving the
Chronicle as the only daily
broadsheet newspaper in San Francisco.
As of 2005 the publisher of the
Chronicle is
Frank J. Vega, the executive vice president and editor is
Phil Bronstein and the editorial page editor is John Diaz. The publishers of the Chronicle prior to Frank Vega included
George Cameron (1925-1955),
Charles de Young Thieriot (1955-1977), and
Richard Tobin Thieriot (1977-1994), among others.
The online version of the newspaper, SFGate, is led by vice president Peter Negulescu and news director Vlae Kershner. As well as publishing the
San Francisco Chronicle online, SFGate adds other features not available in the
Publishing version, such as blogs and podcasts. SFGate was one of the earliest major market newspaper websites to be launched, having done so in 1993.
The paper has received the Pulitzer Prize on a number of occasions. Despite an illustrious and long history, the paper's news reportage is not as extensive as in the past. The current day
Chronicle has followed the trend of other American newspapers, devoting increasing attention to local and regional news and cultural and entertainment criticism to the detriment of the paper's traditionally strong national and international reportage, though the paper does maintain a Washington DC bureau. This increased focus on local news is a response to the competition from other Bay Area newspapers including the resurrected
San Francisco Examiner, the
Oakland Tribune, the
Contra Costa Times and the
San Jose Mercury News. Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada received the
George Polk Awards for Sports Reporting.
Fainaru-Wada and Williams were recognized for their work on uncovering the BALCO scandal, which linked San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds to performance-enhancing drugs. While the two above-named reporters broke the news, they are by no means the only sports writers of note at the Chronicle. The Chronicle's sports section--called
The Sporting Green as it was once printed on green-tinted pages--is staffed with two dozen writers. The section's best-known writers are its columnists: Bruce Jenkins, Gwenn Knapp, Scott Ostler, and Ray Ratto.
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 & Garden', and 'Wine', the latter of which is unique. The Sunday editions contain a
San Francisco Chronicle Magazine that regularly focuses on the previously mentioned topics. In early 2006 a new section, ' 96 Hours', was added to the Thursday edition of the paper, covering entertainment from that day through Sunday.
Circulation has fallen precipitously since the heyday of the
dot-com bubble from 1997 to 2001. The Chronicle's circulation dropped by 16.6% between 2004 and 2005 to 400,906; in 2006, daily circulation dropped to 373,805.In response, the newspaper has cut back on local news coverage and takes many national and international stories from the
Associated Press instead of relying on
Chronicle correspondents. There have also been major cutbacks in staff, with one fourth of the newsroom being let go in 2007. At the same time, the online edition has continued its growth and in 2006 SFGate was fifth among U.S. newspaper websites with 5.2 million unique users per month.
Notes
External links
- SFGate: Online version of the newspaper, contains freely searchable archive of all articles since 1995
- Hearst subsidiary profile of the San Francisco Chronicle
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