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  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    HuffPo to Expand to San Francisco

    A job is when you are paid ​So, Arianna Huffington is making plans to expand her media empire, the Huffington Post, to San Francisco. Once we learned that, we had to call the guild workers here -- you know the ones who started the "Hey Ariana, could you spare a dime," Facebook page. It's hard to n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    KQED Bolts Bay Area News Project; Employees Wonder What the Hell Just Happened

    KQED, for reasons unknown, has bailed out...​Earlier this month, we wrote about how the birth of the nonprofit, Warren Hellman-funded Bay Area News Project was coming along more slowly and sloppily than anticipated. Now, to stretch the gestation analogy, there have been complications -- and one of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Birth of Bay Area News Project Slower, Messier than Founders Hoped

    Yeah, and it's about time!​Last year, banjo-pluckin' billionaire Warren Hellman made a splash when he pledged $5 million to found the Bay Area News Project, an ambitious journalistic consortium of public broadcasting, U.C. Berkeley's journalism school, the Media Workers Guild, and New York Times. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    The Biggest Loser: Chron's Circulation Drops More Than Other Major Dailies

    ​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 writin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    Layoffs Commence -- Yes, Again -- At the Chronicle

    ​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 Chro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    Chron Death Watch: Panel of Journalists Talking to Audience of Journalists and Covered by Journalists Express Concerns

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    Union Floats Proposal to Buy San Francisco Chronicle

    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 pape ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2008

    San Francisco Chronicle To Cut 125 Positions

    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 pape ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2008

    Newspaper Union Accuses Company Of Retaliation

    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 pape ... More >>

  • News

    December 19, 2007

    Paper Chase

    The Guild is up against a cost-cutting mogul and declining revenues, but the union continues to seek converts

  • News

    July 25, 2007

    Gate Keepers

    The Guild is up against a cost-cutting mogul and declining revenues, but the union continues to seek converts

  • News

    February 21, 2001

    Trouble at the F-Ex

    The Guild is up against a cost-cutting mogul and declining revenues, but the union continues to seek converts

  • News

    September 6, 2000

    Dog Bites

    A Little Crazy

  • News

    September 8, 1999

    A Chance for Respect?

    How to tell whether the San Francisco Chronicle is becoming a great newspaper, or another nondescript Hearst money-machine

  • Music

    May 14, 1997

    Riff Raff

    How to tell whether the San Francisco Chronicle is becoming a great newspaper, or another nondescript Hearst money-machine

  • Calendar

    December 11, 1996

    Unspun

    How to tell whether the San Francisco Chronicle is becoming a great newspaper, or another nondescript Hearst money-machine

  • News

    March 15, 1995

    Letters

    How to tell whether the San Francisco Chronicle is becoming a great newspaper, or another nondescript Hearst money-machine

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