Entries from SFist tagged with 'chronicle'
May 21, 2008
Imagine our surprise when we finally stopped partying woke up this morning to find ourselves quoted by the legendary Matier & Ross in The Chronicle! And – surprise! – we were made to sound completely irresponsible. ...
Continue Reading "Matier & Ross (Sort of) Finger SFist as Culprit in Bay to Breakers Booze Mayhem "May 7, 2008
SF Weekly discovered this morning that the Gate was hacked--specifically, this morning's Mark Morford. OMG, oops. The thing is, it's actually his column, using the hacked tongue. Jesus. Next week's Morford: quality of airline food; take his wife, please.......
Continue Reading "SF Gate Hacked This Morning In More Ways Than One"February 26, 2008
Well, here we go, folks. What was once an abstract thought is now a reality. Behold "Phil Bronstein At Large," featuring the Chron's political scribe, Carla Marinucci. It was just posted fresh for your admiration, disdain, or entertainment. So...love it or hate it? Go.......
Continue Reading "Love It or Hate It: Bronstein At Large"January 25, 2008
Former editor of The Arizona Republic, vice president of The Cincinnati Enquirer, and top editor for the Reno Gazette-Journal and the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Bay Area's Ward E. Bushee was just named executive VP and editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. After graduating from San Diego State University (dude!) in 1971 with a degree in history, Bushee started his career at The Salinas Californian in 1975 and then over the Marin Independent Journal. Then,......
Continue Reading "Ta-da: Your New SF Chronicle Editor, Ward E. Bushee!"January 24, 2008
Researching San Francisco history means spending way too much time sitting in the dark. In the library, we mean, staring at microfilm of old newspapers. Hours of scanning those scratched and blurry archives makes us a little punchy, so we blinked and rubbed our eyes at this gruesome headline from the February 13, 1902 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle. We wondered momentarily if it was a prescient comment on the state of contemporary......
Continue Reading ""Leg Bones for Baseball Bats" - 1902 San Francisco Chronicle"January 23, 2008
It was announced today that SF Chronicle's editor, Phil Bronstein, will be "shifting his role from running day-to-day operations in the newsroom to taking on broader strategic responsibilities at the paper and for its owner, Hearst Corporation." Whoa. What's more, you will get to read more of that Bronstein voice: In addition, Bronstein will write for The Chronicle and sfgate.com. "I got into this profession because of my great love for words and how......
Continue Reading "Phil Bronstein Named Editor-at-Large of Hearst Newspapers Division, SF Chronicle; New Editor TBA"December 5, 2007
Oh this is bizarre. And scary. An old man was arrested today for not following a "restraining order that prohibited him from having any contact with employees of The Chronicle." Oh my. It seems that Julian Hartzell, 64, made "inappropriate contact" with some of the Chronicle staff this past summer. The paper then got themselves a restraining order against him, but he continued to try contacting employees. So? He was arrested. What kind of......
Continue Reading "Chron Employee Stalker Goes to Jail"November 27, 2007
In an effort to tame the trolls, SFGate's site (as well as a few others like ThinkProgress) use software from an outside company that implements a unique "block user" function. This feature blocks all comments made by a user from view by anyone but themselves (upon login). That is to say, whenever the quasi-banned user logs in to the site, they see their comments intact; but to everyone else, the offending comment is simply......
Continue Reading "SFGate Dupes a Few Trolls"August 20, 2007
The violent melodrama characterizing the recent murder of a journalist investigating "Your Black Muslim Bakery" has conjured the entire Bay Area history of political violence into our memories. Dan White, James P. Casey, David S. Terry... the list is long and impressive. The anniversary of one of our bloodier favorites is coming up this Thursday -- it's hard to believe that a mere 128 years have passed since the editor of the San Francisco......
Continue Reading "nugget o' history: Anniversary of a Flesh Wound"