SFist: Chronicle Reveals Demise in Blog Post?

PoKonrad

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:56:16 -0800

I always want to cheer when I hear about the seemingly decades-long death rattles of the Chronicle, 'cause it's really an embarrassingly bad paper o' record. However, it's not as tho the Chron's disappearance would clear the way for a better paper to step in. Unless, somehow, one of those new dailies got an infusion of serious funding. (&, actually, those dailies—the City Star & the Daily—are surprisingly good, despite their total lack of Web presence.)

dantsea

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:42:10 -0800

As Chron Editor Ward Bushee said on NPR a few weeks ago, a big part of the Chron's content strategy focuses on non-web readers Oh, how precious! Everyone must read that Snitch piece to see what Ward's planning on doing. Oh, okay, I'll summarize: He's going to charge old people more to read the paper. That's it.

RinconHillSF

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:56:29 -0800

I noticed a brand new, shiny SF Chronicle newspaper box on the block of Main Street between Harrison and Folsom appear last week in my corner of Rincon Hill ... I thought those types of boxes were on their death beds in favor of the huge, multi-publication boxes appearing downtown. (shrug) I hope the Chronicle figures out a way to survive ... democracy needs full-time journalists (preferably residents of the town they're reporting on). Citizen journalists have 20 other things going on, typically.