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
SF News KPIX Newscaster Dave McElhatton Dies Today, former KPIX "Eyewitness News" anchor Dave McElhatton died "of a stroke-related illness in Rancho Mirage." He was 81. [AP]
SF News SF Examiner's Colorful Crime Reporting Is hell frozen over? If we here at SFist are wondering if one of San Francisco's major dailies is going to end up sued for calling suspects "goons" and "thugs" -- and describing
SF News Photo du Jour 600 In honoring of filing his final story today, we present to you retiring KPIX reporter Hank Plante. (Read Plante's exit interview, if you will, over at SF Bay Guardian.)
SF News "Bay Area News Project" Becomes "The Bay Citizen" The Bay Area News Project, that much ballyhooed journalism project of awe and mystery, is noted for two things thus far: convincing themselves and other journalists that it could be the second coming
SF News SF Bay Guardian Sued By SF Weekly's Banks Mommy and daddy, we wish you'd stop fighting. Is it because we're bad? Do you hate us? We promise to be good if you stop hating each other. Because when we read this:
SF News KPIX's Hank Plante to Retire at Month's End Say what? Yes, you heard right. Rich Lieberman reports that KPIX political editor Hank Plante will retire at the end of March. Alas. One of the first openly gay TV reporters in the
SF News SF Chron to Farm Out Stories to Fan-Generated Sports Reporting Site Look out, Chronicle sports writers -- your bosses seem to think a bunch of fans can do just as good a job of covering sports as you can, for a fraction of the
SF News Wall Street Journal and The New York Times to Print SF Editions Here's some days-old news for you to chew on, folks. In a move that has some editors at The Chronicle defecating in their hermetically-sealed bubble, both The Wall Street Journal and The New
SF News Hackers Break Into Berkeley Journalism School's Server While j-schoolers at Cal are busy bemoaning the state of the Journalism and perfecting that well-worn journalist look (hint: spiral notepad, unkempt hair, elbow patches, lots of chin scratching), a hacker breached UC
SF News Update: Bill Clinton Helps to Free Journalists In North Korea In an effort to get North Korea to release Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, former President Bill Clinton arrived in Pyongyang today to meet with Kim Jong Il. This "surprise"
SF News Formerly Jailed Journalist Josh Wolf On Jailed Journalists Concerned that today's sentencing will land, if all goes horribly wrong, Current TV journos Laura Ling and Euna Lee 12 years of hard labor inside a North Korean jail, we asked formerly-jailed journalist
misc Photo du Jour 427 Scene from yesterday's rally at Civic Center to free Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. Both are on trial in North Korea for something ridiculous, facing 10 years of hard labor.
SF News Bronstein Emerges Unscathed After Dowd Date Maureen Dowd is kind of an idiot. And we mean that in the nicest way possible, because she seems so smart. But then she goes off and writes this. In her most recent
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 San Francisco Journalists Detained in North Korea Two Current TV journalists, reporter Laura Ling photographer Euna Kim, were detained by soldiers while on assignment near the North Korea's border with China. The journalists were taken into custody by border guards
SF News Final Print Version of <em>Seattle P-I</em>: Tuesday, 3/17 It was announced today that Hearst Corporation's other troubled publication, Seattle P-I, will roll out its final print publication tomorrow. Publisher Roger Oglesby just made the announcement on behalf of Hearst. The online
SF News TMZ's Harvey Levin Speaks at Cal's School of Journalism Inexplicably managing not to spray the room with gunfire or hurl himself out of the nearest open window, TMZ's Harvey Levin spoke to students enrolled at the "elite" Graduate School of Journalism at
SF News Bay Area Reporter Editor's Resignation Letter? One of two things happened over at BAR.com: 1) Somebody hacked the interwebs, and posted this casual faux-resignation letter Sunday morning, or 2) news editor Cynthia Laird is peeved. Since Laird is
SF News Hug a Journalist Day: Winner Yesterday was Hug a Journalist Day. Yes, we know, we are a bit late getting back to you all on this. Forgive us. Anyway, we have decided to nix the poll because, as
SF News Nominations: Hug a Journalist Day, 2/15 Ever hug a bottle of cheap vodka caked with cocaine residue? That's what hugging a journalist is like. And this Sunday, Feb. 15, is Hug a Journalist Day -- at least according to
misc 1981 KRON Report on Electronic Journalism Scott Beale over at Laughing Squid came across this gem. It's a 1981 KRON report on the Internet and newspapers. How will this newfangled technology change the publishing industry? SF Examiner's David Cole
SF News Pardon Muntader al-Zaidi? After hurling his black dress shoes at President George Bush last week, Muntader al-Zaidi, a journalist for an independent Iraqi television station, is being hailed as somewhat of a hero. (Word is that
SF News Quote of the Day: C.W. Nevius Tells Off Web Log Writers Fearing for his job in these tough economic times, Chronicle scribe C.W. Nevius tells CBS 5' Joe Vasquez that bloggers, it seems, are stupidheads. Ahem: Bloggers do a nice job and that’
SF News Oakland Tribune Calls for the Firing of School Police Chief Remember when Oakland School District Police Chief Art "No, you're a pain in the ass" Michel detained Oakland Tribune photographer Jane Tyska during Halloween's illegal immigration protests? Well, it turns out the Tribune
