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Newspapers to Google: We Don't Want Your Help

If you think American publishers are clueless when it comes to the Internet, just look abroad. This week, Brazil's National Association of Newspapers blocked Google News from aggregating its members' articles. That means that almost none of the newspaper articles published in Brazil will make it to ... More >>

Why Dave Eggers Loves Print -- And Why He Could Love Online News

Hey Dave -- stop kvetching! ​We've written several times about San Francisco author Dave Eggers' love affair with print newspapers, and how frustrated we are that someone with so much talent is still fetishizing a product made from dead trees. It doesn't have to be that way. As the Nieman Journali ... More >>

S.F. New Media Admits It Can't Quit Chronicle

OMG! Like, stuff blew up! ​Last night, the Commonwealth Club asked a panel of new media start-ups to imagine a San Francisco media landscape without a daily newspaper. The panel was boldly titled, "If Not the Chronicle, Then What?" Turns out, none of the panelists could imagine doing their jobs wi ... More >>

Ward Bushee to Bring More McNews to Chronicle

New Editor, New Media, New Emphasis: Is the Chronicle So Over San Francisco?

Breaking News: Ward H. Bushee Replaces Embattled San Francisco Chronicle EIC Phil Bronstein

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, December 7, 2005

Brugmann's Brain Vomit

Cleaning up the latest drivel from San Francisco's leading bull-goose loony

Darth Vega to the Rescue

New Chronicle Publisher Frank Vega has been cast as a villain, but he may be just what the Hearst empire needs to defeat the dark forces of the new economy

The World According to Bechtel

There are well-connected companies. Then there's Bechtel.

A Chance for Respect?

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

Under His Skin

Dermatologist Michael Franzblau goes national with claims that a Marin newspaper ran an anti-Semitic column about him

Monumental Disgrace

Can S.F.'s rusting, weathered statues be restored by purchasing a whole new line of sculpture?

Final Deadline

David Burgin is legendary as a rough-and-tumble newspaper editor. But the legend is full of astonishing contradictions, and its last chapter may include the outcome of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of his proteges at the Oakland Tribune.

Night+Day

The Case For One Daily

The Joint Operating Agreement deprives the Chronicle of the resources it needs to produce a great newspaper; it also prevents the afternoon Examiner from connecting with the readers it needs to survive. Since the JOA makes it inevitable that only one wil