After a local jury found SF Weekly guilty of illegal predatory pricing and awarded the local alt weekly a cool $6.39 million (the verdict subject to "treble damages," which bring the total award to $15.6 million), SFBG Executive Editor Tim Redmond tells the harrowing tale of the five-week trial in his own words: But the verdict sends a clear signal to small businesses, independent newspapers and the alternative press that a locally owned publication......

Today, we really enjoyed an interview of Chronicle Executive Editor Phil Bronstein by Julie Haire, an L.A.-based freelance writer, that was published on MediaBistro. And, yes, we confess, part of that enjoyment was due to multiple references to SFist....

We finally got around to watching MTV's "I'm From Rolling Stone", the Almost Famous-meets-The Hills-meets-The Apprentice reality show about six twenty somethings who get "the internship of a lifetime": a summer associate position at Rolling Stone. One lucky hopeful will win a year-long contributing editor position. Um, does anybody still read Rolling Stone? ...

Well, L'affaire Leon at the Weekly certainly didn't come to a conclusion we expected. We crawled out of bed this morning only to read that he'll no longer be appearing in their pages. If you want to read his Infiltrator features, you'll have to buy his books. But was this really all Harmon's fault? Or is it a symptom of much bigger problems at the Weekly? Morale, and therefore quality, may be in decline......

Once again, SFist is here to stick up for ol' Harmon, as he's run into controversy yet again in his most recent SF Weekly Infiltrator column, "Dieter Gone Wild." In this episode, Harmon's mission was infiltrating the AVN awards. Harmon must have gotten turned around on the highway, because the AVN awards were in Las Vegas, and Harmon seemed to end up at a nightclub in Los Angeles. You can understand that we're all a bit jumpy, considering recent events. After getting through to the switchboard via the classified sales desk, we left a message for Executive Editor Tom Walsh, whom we've contacted before. One unexpected grilling about who we were later (um, how about best local blog as chosen by the Weekly?), he let us know that they could verify Harmon was at the FOXE Awards in Los Angeles, and that they'll be issuing a correction. Harmon wrote to say, "[T]he copy editor got it wrong. It was the FOXE Awards and it happened a few years back. They were supposed to put that in the lead and didn't." Which begs the question: Why are we fact checking Harmon's work? We don't see an opening for fact-checkers at the Weekly, so the position must already be filled, right? It's not like it involves anything more than a familiarity with Google search. ...

First, a little politics. Nancy Pelosi calls for the declassification of her memo to the administration regarding secret surveillance of American citizens. Ann Harrison has an exhaustive first-person account on the recent medical marijuana dispensary raids. Executive Editor Chris Lopez softens the "Wiretap Scandal" headline at the Contra Costa Times. And Dan Gillmore is going non-profit and creating a Center for Citizen Journalism along with Cal Berkeley and Harvard, causing some to ask whither......

The Philip Anschutz owned San Francisco Examiner announced yesterday that current Executive Editor Vivienne Sosnowski is replacing John Wilpers as editor-in-chief at the Washington Examiner. Malcolm Kirk, present editor-in-chief of the Calgary Herald, will replace Sosnowski at the Examiner. There's not a lot out there on Kirk (wouldn't it be cool if this was him?), and believe us, we've searched. Anyone out there know anything about this guy? How does the Herald compare to......

Senior Editor of Editor and Publisher Joe Strupp penned a lengthy feature published today about the Chronicle's Executive Editor Phil Bronstein. Oh, there are so many gems to choose from! Here's our favorite: He also wants the paper to work more with its Web site as a "continuous" news source, but admits a lack of interest in blogs, claiming many are just "people writing about what they had for breakfast..." So what does that......

No, not really. But seriously, some biblical type stuff seems to be happening in California. First, it was a load of shrimp -- that's right, shrimp -- that made landfall in a suburb of San Diego at the end of last month. SFist would like to think this has to be one of the tastier signs of the coming apocalypse (okay, really, it was probably a wind spout that picked them up from the......

Well, oral arguments in the MGM v. Grokster case concluded yesterday, and the reports from the scene conclude that the justices were very pointed in their questioning of the plaintiff, MGM. Reading different sources give us different impressions of the mood and tone -- the SCOTUSblog makes us think that the Justices were giving MGM the benefit of the doubt, whereas the EFF seemed encouraged by the hearing from the tone of their press......

We're currently waiting for our gut instinct -- that Yahoo has, in fact, purchased Flickr -- to be proven right on Tuesday. And by "gut instinct," we mean we shook the old Magic 8-Ball and got "All signs point to yes." In the meantime, we've got another rumor floating around the internets, which we found via a trackback (Thanks, John!) to that post. None other than Reuters is reporting that Apple is rumored to......