When Hearst was still smilingThe union representing employees at the financially troubled San Francisco Chronicle has asked the newspaper's owner, Hearst Corp., for the chance to purchase the Chronicle if it is put up for sale.The request was made in a written set of suggestions for keeping the paper alive that the California Media Workers Guild submitted to Hearst earlier this week. "It is our intention to form a public-labor partnership to explore the possibility of acquiring the Chronicle sho
Could this guy have fit all the panelists and audience in his truck?In some cases, you really can tell how a story is going to end by the way the stage is set, and this was one of them.
Picture this: The Society of Professional Journalists hosts a community discussion about the potential death of the San Francisco Chronicle, with panelists including Guardian publisher Bruce Brugmann and (allegedly) City Supervisors President David Chiu ... and they can't even fill a small city library auditor
​Word from the Chronicle newsroom came SF Weekly's way this afternoon that the paper's "after Labor Day" layoff date is right here, right now. Newspaper employees were informed less than an hour ago that the paper is, once again, downsizing. A bulletin was sent out by the Newspaper Guild that Chronicle management notified the union that "newsroom layoffs are expected to begin this afternoon." The number of workers, departments in which they toil, or duration of this round of layoffs was not di
Making fun of the Chronicle isn't as enjoyable as it used to be. Writing some snarky bit about our troubled hometown paper these days is like laughing at a blind guy who walks into a door -- on his way to chemotherapy. It feels like picking on someone less fortunate than yourself. Like writing a review panning a Keanu Reeves performance, it's just too easy.
Now comes more bad news for our journalistically crippled cousins: During the six-month period between April and September, the Chr
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