SF News The Huffington Post Launches S.F. Edition In About Two Weeks We've already got a smattering of love by way of regional editions of the NYT and Wall Street Journal, and now the Huffington Post is launching a San Francisco edition, as we first
SF News Chronicle Staffers Gossip About SFGate Paywall to Charity Case Online News Site On the Bay Citizen's weekend edition, the burning-someone-else's money (but still free) publication reports (sort of) on the Hearst Corporation's sudden decision to (maybe) put a majority of the free content on SFGate.
misc What Would You Name the Chronicle's Artisan Honey? In an Inside Scoop post today, Chronicle food critic and man-of-impeccable-taste, Michael Bauer proves he's only in it for the honey. In a partnership with the Marin Bee Company and the paper's Home
SF News Chronicle Columnist Discovers Poo in the Tenderloin Chuck Nevius' nostrils are burning. In his column today about the simple economics of human waste, the Chronicle staffer and fairly recent city resident explains the biggest problem facing the community in the
SF News Nevius Takes On the Nudists Chuck Nevius has penned his latest semi-conservative, grumpy old man screed about the damn nudists in the Castro, and you know what? He's not gonna take it anymore! Nudity is just not right
SF News Chronicle Columnist Seeks Attention By Proudly Not Naming Attention-Seeking Arizona Shooter While we commend "token conservative" Chronicle columnist Debra Saunders for calling out Sarah Palin's blood libel-spewing tribute to herself, we have to wonder why Saunders used three - three! - columns to pat
misc Soggy Newspapers The Chronicle finally noticed today that the new Muni shelters don't really do a whole lot of sheltering. Everyone else already pointed this out back in November, but it's kind of nice of
SF News Bay Bridge Eastern Span Still Effed, Behind Schedule, But May Still Open on Time? Big news in the Chron-o-sphere this a.m. is that the Bay Bridge's eastern span construction, while still about 15 months behind, may still open on schedule in 2013 assuming they can get
Arts & Entertainment John King Hates on the Federal Building In compiling his list of the top 10 in new SF architecture for the aughts, Chronicle architecture critic John King makes the glaring omission of the Morphosis-designed Federal Building at 7th and Mission.
SF News Breaking: Chronicle Rents Space to Other Companies Holy smokes, are you sitting down for this one? Are you sure? Because: SF Chronicle is renting out space to tech companies. Did we just blow your damn mind? Didn't think so. Since
SF News More Chronicle Layoffs While news of another batch of layoffs at the Chronicle isn't particularly newsworthy in this economy, the California Media Workers Guild posted the following missive yesterday. Chronicle Unit Chair Michelle Devera issued the
SF News Daly Move Watch 2K9: Daly and Wife Paid $545K Cash for Fairfield Homes The man who has spent his local political career championing the rights of the Tenderloin poor, the SRO-dwelling, and the owners of property more likely to be made of cardboard than of concrete,
SF News <i>SF Chronicle</i> Unveils New Look For those of you who still read print editions of newspapers, did you happen to see San Francisco Chronicle's latest makeover? To be blunt, it looks downright lovely. The font, the sharper images,
SF News Mommy Blogger Fakes Pregnancy For Commenter Attention This story may not beat the Napa gal who faked her cancer so that she could collect donations and disability, but it comes close! We find today, via SFGate's Mommy Files, that a
SF News Quote du Jour: Accurate Newsom Statement Burns Bridges Dude. When asked recently about the future of SF Chronicle, or lack thereof, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom told The Economist the following: People under 30 won’t even notice. Chortle. Also: true. But
SF News David Geffen In Line to Purchase <i>The New York Times</i>? As everyone is well aware, print news is dying a slow death, and news organizations everywhere -- like our very own Faded Floozy -- are changing hands or closing up shop completely. Fortune
SF News Chronicle (Reporter) Doesn't Believe In Publishing News That Hurts Their Feelings We're almost certain that more esteemed colleagues like Steven T. Jones and Joe Eskenazi didn't come across a request from a Chronicle reporter to unpublish their items on yesterday's involuntary layoffs But we
SF News Poll: What Will All of That SF Chron Management Do All Day? While editorial staff gets pruned today, we're hearing from Chronicle guild members that "No one thinks they're gonna go through with any manager layoffs." (Update: Lesley Guth, Chron manager, was laid off this
SF News Chronicle Layoffs Today It's rumored that 20 newsroom-based Media Workers Guild employees at the San Francisco Chronicle will be involuntarily laid off today. We're told that a union steward sent a message to its members recommending
SF News Phil Bronstein Vists The Colbert Report Let's face it: The Daily Show blows now, and not in a good way. Comedy Central's fake news has turned into The Capitol Steps for Baby Boomers and Gen Xers. It's the kind
SF News Your Day in the Suffocation of Democracy's Oxygen In today's installment of "No One Cares About This Story, So Shut Up and Do Your Job, Journalists," artisan newspaper publication The New York Times -- which is having its own economic problems
SF News Vice at the <i>Chron</i> In a relatively affordable act of civic duty and nostalgia, we've just subscribed to the print edition of the , "The Voice of the West." Our first day's paper arrived this morning, and what
SF News Local Billionaire Proposes Turning <em>Chronicle</em> Into a Non-Profit Warren Hellman, chairman of local private equity investment firm Hellman & Friedman, amateur banjo player and major sponsor of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, has come up with some crackpot scheme to turn
SF News <em>Chronicle</em> Workers' Union Votes In Favor of Hearst Proposal Members of the San Francisco Chronicle Unit of the CA Media Workers Guild Local 39521 voted Saturday by a 10-1 margin in favor of a Hearst Corp. proposal designed to avoid sale or
SF News SF Chronicle, Union Reach Deal Less vacation time and longer work weeks for the same pay might be in store for SF Chronicle employees after the paper and the California Media Workers Guild reached a tentative deal yesterday.
