SF News Chron Writer Takes Out Ad in Examiner Have you seen page 9 of today's Examiner yet? Well, you should. Chron staff writer Delfin Vigil took out an ad criticizing Hearst in its threat to close down the SF Chronicle. And
SF News "Union In Talks To Save San Francisco Chronicle" According to a CBS 5/KCBS/AP report, "Union leaders at the San Francisco Chronicle said they were drafting a compromise to a management proposal that offers severe job cuts that officials indicated
SF News Reactions to SF Chronicle Closing Down Before we get to what esteemed journalists have to say about SF Chronicle's impending closure -- when discussing "micropayments" and other snake oils with a SFSU journo professor this morning, KTVU's Ross McGowan
SF News Chronicle Takes Aim at the Internets (Again) With yet another cover story on the same subject in 30 days (same story, but no new information), The Chronicle's anti-Internet story "Web 2.0 defamation lawsuits multiply" attempts to show how the
SF News Chronicle Refuses to use Digital Communication, Prefers Phone Seeing as how the entire American Apparel-on-Valencia brouhaha was traffic gold -- and the Gate/Chron is on no financial position to turn down traffic -- it seemed like writing about the AA
SF News Chronicle Fails to Report on 'Fun' American Apparel Planning Meeting Seeing as how the American Apparel-on-Valencia Street nonsense has captivated many San Franciscans -- look no further than the hair-pulling going on in SFist's comments to see the popularity of this strange story
SF News What Does the Sale of the Hearst-Owned Seattle P-I Mean for SF Chronicle? We'd typically leave news that one of Seattle's two daily newspapers, the Seattle P-I, has been put up for sale to our sister site to the north. But a segment in the P-I's
Arts & Entertainment Chronicle Reveals Demise in Blog Post? In an odd and somewhat unprofessional manner, the Chronicle announced yesterday that, well, it's imploding. (While layoffs at the Chron are no surprise, the dialing down of SFGate as a whole, however, is.
SF News Palin Accuses Chronicle of Extreme Leftist Pinko Trickery Hinting at further signs of her own developmental disability, Gov. Sarah Palin criticized ultra liberal SF Chronicle of hiding an interview with Barack Obama in which the President elect (why not?) discussed his
SF News Breaking News: Mark Adkins Declared President of <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> Even as the Chronicle eliminates 125 positions across its print and web organizations, they're creating new ones -- in upper management, that is. Take, for example, Mark Adkins, who was named President of
SF News Outside Lands Hilarity Edited Boo! After we posted about "Oliver Clothezoff, visiting from New York" at the Outside Lands festival, the Chronicle went and edited it to read, "A visitor from New York..." (Pft, you guys are
SF News Matier & Ross (Sort of) Finger SFist as Culprit in Bay to Breakers Booze Mayhem (By Joe Kukura) 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
SF News SF Gate Hacked This Morning In More Ways Than One 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
SF News Love It or Hate It: Bronstein At Large 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
SF News Ta-da: Your New <i>SF Chronicle</i> Editor, Ward E. Bushee! 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
misc "Leg Bones for Baseball Bats" - 1902 San Francisco Chronicle 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
SF News Phil Bronstein Named Editor-at-Large of Hearst Newspapers Division, SF Chronicle; New Editor TBA 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
SF News Chron Employee Stalker Goes to Jail 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
Arts & Entertainment SFGate Dupes a Few Trolls 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
Arts & Entertainment nugget o' history: Anniversary of a Flesh Wound 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,
