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Center for Investigative Reporting

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    The Bay Citizen to End Relationship With New York Times

    Among the many, many changes happening over at the fledgling Bay Citizen, the news outlet announced this week it will sever its special relationship with the New York Times on April 29. The news isn't so surprising after the paper announced it would merge with the Center for Investigative Reporting, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    Why The Bay Citizen Can't Hack It Alone Anymore

    ​The Bay Citizen was funded with a $5 million gift from Warren Hellman to be an independent news organization in the Bay Area. But after two years in operation, it's being taken over by the Center for Investigative Reporting.How did this happen? Their billionaire died It turns out there actually ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Phil Bronstein Resigns from the Chronicle

    ​Former Chron editor Phil Bronstein confirmed today rumors that he is indeed leaving the newspaper after more than three decades with Hearst. However, Bronstein, 61, isn't leaving the news business.The 61-year-old tells us he will be taking on a larger role at the Center for Investigative Reportin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 23, 2011

    Commercial-Free Future

    ​Former Chron editor Phil Bronstein confirmed today rumors that he is indeed leaving the newspaper after more than three decades with Hearst. However, Bronstein, 61, isn't leaving the news business.The 61-year-old tells us he will be taking on a larger role at the Center for Investigative Reportin ... More >>

  • News

    April 13, 2011

    News Media Continues Its Slow Decline

    ​Former Chron editor Phil Bronstein confirmed today rumors that he is indeed leaving the newspaper after more than three decades with Hearst. However, Bronstein, 61, isn't leaving the news business.The 61-year-old tells us he will be taking on a larger role at the Center for Investigative Reportin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    David Weir, Local Journalist, Joins Ace News Team to Report on The Demise of Bay Area Journalism

    What's the real story?​David Weir, the legendary local journalist who helped launch the Center for Investigative Reporting and 7x7 magazine, is part of a new crack team of reporters investigating the effects of the newspaper business' decline in the Bay Area.According to a pitch by SF Public Press ... More >>

  • News

    October 6, 2010

    Labor Pains

    A fight between two unions here could set the course of the U.S. labor movement.

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Bay Area News Project Changes Name to 'Bay Citizen'; Starts Hiring

    ​As of this afternoon, the Bay Area News Project, the F. Warren Hellman-funded bid to reinvent the metro newspaper, has a new, Pulitzer Prize-winning managing editor, a new Web site, and a new name, "The Bay Citizen," with the slogan,  "News/Culture/Community." The new managing editor is Stev ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2009

    T-Pain DataSF = Tinny Voiced Do-Gooder Web Apps?

    There's an app for that...​Calling all computer-whiz nerds: not one, but two Bay Area-based Web application contests were announced this week. First, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has been helping to promote the DataSF App contest, which challenges entrants to create civic-minded applications b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    Investigative Report: Marin County Water System Vulnerable to Al-Qaeda Attack

    Does everyone want to live in Marin?​ The Center For Investigative Reporting, the Berkeley nonprofit that recently formed a team of sleuths to take up where downsized California newspapermen and women left off, came out slugging earlier this month. It published a scintillating piece demonstrating ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    Chronicle's Last Investigative Reporter Sails Off to Calmer Waters

    Lance Williams departs from the Chronicle, on the heels of Seth Rosenfeld, Susan Sward, and -- is that Chuck Finnie?​When it was announced last week that Lance Williams, the last man standing at the San Francisco Chronicle's investigative division, had resigned from the paper, you didn't need to ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 20, 2009

    Go Content! Beat Ignorance!

    Lance Williams departs from the Chronicle, on the heels of Seth Rosenfeld, Susan Sward, and -- is that Chuck Finnie?​When it was announced last week that Lance Williams, the last man standing at the San Francisco Chronicle's investigative division, had resigned from the paper, you didn't need to ... 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

    January 13, 2009

    Veteran Bay Area Journo David Weir Laid Off from New Media Site

    Yikes.That was the collective reaction in the newsroom here at SF Weekly when we heard that David Weir, one of the deans of Bay Area journalism, had been laid off from the Web site Predictify. Weir's news-business credentials are sterling: His past gigs include investigative reporter at Rolling St ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 15, 2008

    Classified Information

    Yikes.That was the collective reaction in the newsroom here at SF Weekly when we heard that David Weir, one of the deans of Bay Area journalism, had been laid off from the Web site Predictify. Weir's news-business credentials are sterling: His past gigs include investigative reporter at Rolling St ... More >>

  • News

    May 9, 2007

    Avoid the Noyes

    KGO's bulldog reporter Dan Noyes has his own antagonists

  • News

    November 29, 2006

    Chron 2.0

    KGO's bulldog reporter Dan Noyes has his own antagonists

  • News

    November 30, 2005

    Craig$list.com

    The much-loved Web site is taking millions from Bay Area newspapers and causing layoffs that adversely affect coverage. And its founder's well-intentioned support of citizen journalism has a slim chance of fixing the problem.

  • News

    June 2, 2004

    Bioscience Warfare

    UC professor Tyrone Hayes found that a highly profitable weed killer causes sexual abnormalities in frogs. Then he found out how nasty a biotech multinational can be.

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    UC professor Tyrone Hayes found that a highly profitable weed killer causes sexual abnormalities in frogs. Then he found out how nasty a biotech multinational can be.

  • News

    November 20, 2002

    Laborer Pains

    The San Francisco Day Labor Program loses city funding amid a labyrinthine dispute between its political supporters and the Mayor's Office

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