SF News DA Jenkins’s Office Disqualified From Murder Case, and Boy Is She Upset at the Chronicle’s Coverage After the Chronicle broke a story that DA Brooke Jenkins’s office had been disqualified from a case involving her family member, Jenkins took to Twitter to excoriate the paper’s seemingly accurate reporting on the topic.
SF Politics Billionaire SF Standard Financier Gets Guff for SF-Bashing (and SF Chronicle-Bashing) In NYT Op-Ed A Sunday New York Times op-ed from the money-man behind the SF Standard reads like a formulaic Mad Libs SF-trashing hit piece, but his attacks on the rival publication The San Francisco Chronicle raise questions about his real motivations.
SF Politics The Chronicle Is Endorsing... Amy Klobuchar? Welp, the San Francisco Chronicle's Editorial Board has issued its endorsement in the Democratic primary, and its choice is a devout centrist from Minnesota.
SF News Beloved 98-Year-Old Science Editor Retires From The San Francisco Chronicle A toast to David Perlman: A journalist and colleague extraordinaire retires https://t.co/Rd6eMTZCxe via @sfchronicle pic.twitter.com/UulmEzWBo9— joegarofoli (@joegarofoli) August 3, 2017 77 years after joining the San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment SF Chronicle Columnist David Talbot Quits Over Low Pay Like all things, we knew at the get-go that it was destined to end...but still, we're a little surprised. After a six-month run, SF Chronicle columnist David Talbot has hung up his
SF News David Talbot Reveals Notable Bernal Neighbors In First Chronicle Column As announced the other week, noted local scribe David Talbot of Season of the Witch fame is temporarily taking over columnist duties for now retired Chronicle curmudgeon C.W. Nevius. And, as expected,
SF News 5 Of 7 Division Street Campers Profiled By Chronicle Still Homeless 9 Months After Camp Clearing Though it's been overshadowed this week by the flood of news connected to the Oakland's Ghost Ship fire, a number of news outlets this week are circling back to the SF Homeless Project
SF News Willie Brown Appears To Defend Donald Trump In Chronicle Column In his latest Chronicle column under the innocuous headline "Trump could drag the Republican Congress down with him," former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown appears to defend republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump by
SF News Veteran Fist-Shaking Chronicle Columnist CW Nevius Announces He's Leaving The Paper After 36 Years In the latest in a series of high-profile departures at the San Francisco Chronicle, longtime resident curmudgeon, SFist punching bag, and ostensible common-sense columnist C.W. Nevius has announced his departure from the
SF News Monday Morning Blaze Sends SFFD To Historic SoMa Structure #WF8291 UPDATE 451 MINNA PIO ON SCENE 4 story VACANT NO INJURY SWCND ALARM pic.twitter.com/leeBu0rQMq— San Francisco Fire (@sffdpio) August 29, 2016 A vacant SoMa building was the site of
Arts & Entertainment Popular Columnist's Departure From The Chronicle 'Was Not Entirely Voluntary' Two weeks after a longstanding San Francisco Chronicle columnist retired to great fanfare, an interview reveals that the beloved writer might have been forced into dropping the pen. As previously noted, SF Chronicle
Arts & Entertainment 'Dear Abby' Easter Egg For Retiring Chron Columnist Jon Carroll & Dear Abby team up to leave @sfchronicle readers a nice little Easter egg on Carroll’s last day. pic.twitter.com/cj70iPsPBL— Rich Saskal (@RichSaskal) November 20, 2015 After a
Arts & Entertainment SF Chronicle Reports That The SF Chronicle's Owners Are Responsible For Killing Off Beloved Dive Bar Dave's Six days ago, an SFist reader named Katy emailed me about the closing of Dave's, the much-loved downtown-area bar that will die on December 31. "Can anything be done about Dave's?" she asked.
SF News Behold, The Chronicle's Damningly Tepid Endorsement Of Mayor Ed Lee We've all been scolded "if you can't say anything good, don't say anything at all" at one time or another, haven't we? Of course, that admonishment doesn't apply when you work in the
SF News BART 'Upstreamers' Frustrate Lazier Commuters At Downtown Stops Presumably denizens of Powell Street BART, the staff of the Chronicle is officially hip to a transportation hack they're dubbing "Upstreaming." That refers to the practice of riding trains back a few stops
SF News Here's What You (Still) Can't Do In The Library: The SFPL Revises Their 'Code Of Conduct' When the Chronicle reported that, following a "frosty note" sent to San Francisco Public Library officials by Mayor Ed Lee, the library had come up with "a laundry list of offenses and penalties"
Arts & Entertainment The Chron Zigs On Burning Man When We Expected It To Zag When you see a headline like "14 ways to enjoy S.F. during Burning Man exodus," it's hard to make yourself click through, and to reward what's likely to be a clueless listicle
SF News Willie Brown Turns On The San Francisco Chronicle Was it just last week that San Francisco's former mayor turned newspaper columnist, Willie Brown, said our "increasingly unsafe" (for pedestrians and cyclists; drivers seem to be doing OK) streets are our own
SF News S.F. Chronicle Finally Abandons Paywall It appears that the Chronicle's exclusive content, which has been locked behind that dreaded subscriber paywall since they launched it in late March, has magically appeared today again for free on SFGate, without
SF News Ink Death: AARP Mags Boast Top Circulation In Print World, Most Newspapers Struggling The stubborn world of print media took way too long to avail themselves of the digital universe, and here in mid-2013 we are still seeing the fallout. A new audit this week by
SF News We're Not The Only Ones Who Notice That The 'Chronicle' Has Problems We pointed you to this piece from the Columbia Journalism Review in a link dump the other day, but in case you missed it, it's worth a read. Former SF Weekly editor John
SF News Chronicle Workers Will Protest Tomorrow With 15-Minute Smoke Break, Red Clothing To protest the Hearst Corporation's plan to shoulder San Francisco Chronicle employees with an additional health care burden, members of the Chronicle staff plan to step away from their desks at precisely 3:
SF News SF Chronicle Demands Fair Health Care Via Online Campaign We here at SFist need to rib the Chronicle or SFGate now and then. In turn, they need to send us angry emails demanding our phone number. It's a dysfunctional relationship, but it
Arts & Entertainment 2013 Rising Stars Announced: No Love For The Ladies, Again The San Francisco Chronicle’s Food and Wine staff selected five Rising Star Chefs was announced over the weekend “to find and highlight some of the Bay Area's freshest talent, those young chefs
Arts & Entertainment Photo: 'Underwear Bomber' Article Meets Unfortunate Ad Placement Today's print edition of The Chronicle features a story about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, sentenced to life in prison for attempting to bomb a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day 2009 with explosives tucked
