SF News Stanford Drops Disciplinary Case Against Student Journalist Covering Gaza Protest A Stanford student who was covering the occupation of the university president's office by pro-Palestinian protesters last year for the campus newspaper when he was arrested alongside those protesters has been cleared of wrongdoing, at least by the school.
SF News Video: Homeless Berkeley Hippies Attack Stanley Roberts A pair of dreadlock-sporting vagrants in Berkeley attacked noted KRON 4 reporter (and SFist favorite) Stanley Roberts this week while he was doing a segment outside Amoeba Music on Telegraph Avenue. The journalist,
Arts & Entertainment Graph Shows How Journalists See Each Other Now for some insider-baseball humor. David Chon, founder of Spot.Us, devised this spot.on (haHA) graphic showing how journalists view each other. Having penned many an article in our boxer briefs, as
SF News Twitter is Finally Useful for Something Buck was in Egypt doing a project on Egyptian bloggers who tend to be, according to The Mercury News "mostly leftist, anti-government bloggers." When photographing a demonstration, Buck and his translator, Mohammed Salah
misc NYT to Bloggers: You Will Die To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature demise of two people obviously does not qualify as an epidemic. There is also no certainty that the
SF News Yahoo Settles With Journalists They Threw In Prison Weep no more, my lady. After handing over an apology to the sobbing mother of a Chinese journalist that they helped imprison, Yahoo now must hand over an undisclosed amount to the scribes.
SF News SFist Blotter Remember the Jamba Juice hepatitis A scare? And remember how we said there were gymnasts competing in a national meet in San Jose a few weeks ago? Well -- you guessed it --
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Chris Wiggum Do you believe your own hype? No, but I believe my own hyphy. Seriously, though, I don't hype things I don't believe in. If I'm publicizing something I don't like, you'll be able
Arts & Entertainment SFFW Doesn't Want Bloggers' Coverage Beloved Jennine from The Coveted writes here about how this year’s San Francisco Fashion Week denied her and other bloggers precious invitations to cover the event or (worse) any of its VIP,
Arts & Entertainment Media Critic Singles Out Chron For Most Likely To Go All-Electronic When we talked to Phil Bronstein, the publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle, a few weeks back, he told us that "the Chronicle will continue to be packed with talented journalists who will
misc Good Touch The attached image was created in timely response to a two-week-old article on SFGate, in which John King confesses of the proposed Muni shelters, "I've got my favorites, but only two or three
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Phil Bronstein Phil Bronstein is the Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. In no small part thanks to Eve Batey (our "Editrix Emeritus" and the Chron's current blogging and interactive editor), Mr. Bronstein agreed to
Arts & Entertainment Not So Fast, Chronicle The revelation that the leaker was defense attorney Troy Ellerman might have gotten Williams and Fainaru-Wada off the hook, but it put the Chronicle on it. See, the problem is that the leaker
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Parties We <i>Were</i> Invited To: Good, Good, Good, Good Hydration The scene: everyone is standing around the bar, taking sips from wine glasses--but they aren't filled with wine. One of the attendees comments that she can't believe that a room of (mostly) journalists,
SF News Wolf Appeal Denied "Wolf does not claim that he filmed anything confidential nor that he promised anyone anonymity or confidentiality. Therefore, this case does not raise the usual concerns in cases involving journalists." Wolf, however, disagreed
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Operates in the Park. --Friday was the Opera opening night at the opera house, and I was one of the penguins there, in that March of the Penguins. --I read in the paper there was a report
Arts & Entertainment Josh Wolf Receives Bail The 'Gate is reporting that Josh has been granted bail by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, to wit:In a brief order, two judges of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of
SF News Iwo Jima Photographer Dies Joe Rosenthal, the man who took the famous picture of the troops raising the flag at Iwo Jima died on Sunday at the age of 90. Rosenthal was born in DC, but moved
SF News I Don't FEEL Tardy or The Dog Ate My Hearing Notice It's been over a year since high-profile law firm Gonzalez and Leigh filed suit over former SFUSD chief Arlene Ackerman's "platinum parachute" termination package. They lost the case in August, but appealed the
Arts & Entertainment The Marginally Engaging Adventures of the Superfisters (While we were visiting our friends at Isotope Comics, we also picked up Issue 5 of the awesome -- God, we can't get enough of swashbuckling youngsters.) New this week: War-Fix, by David
Arts & Entertainment Online Journalists 1, Steve Jobs 0 This is a *huge* win! Now journalists can feel safe knowing that they can protect their sources’ identity no matter in which medium they choose to disseminate news (as we argued in our
SF News Chron Reporters Headed For The Big House? Could they really go to jail over this? We at SFist are watching this case eagerly, and watching the comments on Phil Bronstein's post on the Chron's not at all grandiosely titled "First
SF News Craigslist Encounters: Things We Expect In The News Arrrgggghhh. Sometimes that is the one reasonable response to what people write about Craigslist. Of course we realize that due to network effects Craigslist will reach a critical mass in a city and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: The Usual Suspects All good San Francisco political junkies have Usual Suspects bookmarked on their browser. The local clearinghouse of all things political keeps everyone up to date, diligently reading and summarizing all the articles about
Arts & Entertainment Save The Mercury News Last week, San Jose newspaper publishing company Knight-Ridder was purchased by another company, McClatchy. McClatchy then decided it didn't want to keep publishing the hometown newspaper of the company it had just purchased,
