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Hearst Corp. Finds Another Way to 'Survive,' Buys into Reality TV Company

The way of the future?​Hearst Corporation, the media empire that owns properties including the San Francisco Chronicle, has purchased the company behind such reality television hits as Survivor and The Apprentice.The deal was announced today as a partnership between Hearst and Mark Burnett Product ... More >>

Chronicle Admits No One Gives a Damn About Glossy Paper

Dogs care about the texture of a newspaper. People don't. ​When the San Francisco Chronicle announced its amazing plan of saving print journalism via glossy paper, it struck us as being a bit like actors attempting to save Vaudeville via higher-energy slapstick routines or dockworkers trying rescu ... More >>

Chronicle Scribes' Secret Weapon in Union Negotiations: Essays

Will longtime reporters' essays make a dent with management? ​Over the past several years, multiple writers for the ever-shrinking San Francisco Chronicle have told us they felt like rats in a snake's cage. The paper is now thin enough to fit comfortably in your back pocket -- and its staff is jus ... More >>

Chronicle Execs Say Their Paper Now Profitable -- At Least What's Left of It

​Last year, Hearst Corp. had no problem bandying about the Chronicle's purported $1 million a week losses when it suited their aims of playing super-duper union hardball, successfully liquidating much of the staff, and switching to non-union printers.   Now, however, more than half a doz ... More >>

Corporate Cult of Secrecy Detailed in Bunky Hearst Divorce Saga

​We've long known that Hearst Corp's San Francisco Chronicle could do better unearthing local news. What we didn't know was that the corporation, and the family behind it, are dedicated to a cult of secrecy unique in American newspaper dynasties. According to the current issue of Fortune, divorce ... More >>

Examiner, MediaNews to Partner on Bay Area Ad Sales Deal

Media mogul Dean Singleton is again seeking inroads to San Francisco's daily newspaper market, according to a report today in the Denver Business Journal.Will joint ad sales bring happy days back?​Apparently Singleton's MediaNews Group -- owner of legion Bay Area newspapers, including the Oakland ... More >>

Chron Parent Company May Expand Empire. Just Not Print Empire.

With all the bloodletting at the San Francisco Chronicle this year, local readers could be forgiven the impression that all is not hunky-dory in the financial universe of Hearst Corp., which owns the Chron. But despite the newspaper's steady stream of layoffs, there are now indications that Hearst h ... More >>

Older Chronicle Employees Taking the Buyout; Depressing 'Goodbye Party' Scheduled for Friday

This cake is part of your severance packageBlindfold? Cigarette? Buyout? Perhaps 50 union employees at the San Francisco Chronicle -- most of them from the paper's editorial side -- aren't waiting for the axe to drop and have already agreed to accept a buyout, says one of the paper's guild represent ... More >>

More Details Due Today on Chronicle's Potential Union Deal

Sorry Jinx. We're laying you off.The only factor delaying the announcement of a time and place for a possible Thursday union vote on whether to accept the San Francisco Chronicle's latest offer is the securing of "a large enough facility" -- which, sadly, would have been a lot harder to do a decade ... More >>

Newspaper Guild Calls For Vote on Chron's Draconian Proposal -- Can't Bring Itself to Push for Approving It

A communiqué from the Newspaper Guild to its San Francisco Chronicle members yesterday called for a union vote on the "final proposal" put forth by the paper's management -- and alleged negotiating tactics from the Hearst Corporation that seem to have skipped by the "hardball" classification r ... More >>

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 >>

Chronicle Newsroom to be Decimated

Stop the presses! Actually, don't do that -- even we here in alt-weekly land don't want to see the demise of the city's last paid-circulation daily paper, the San Francisco Chronicle. But things are looking grim over at Fifth & Mission. Today, the union that represents Chron reporters met w ... More >>

What would Clint Reilly do if MediaNews tries to buy the Chronicle?

Stop the presses! Actually, don't do that -- even we here in alt-weekly land don't want to see the demise of the city's last paid-circulation daily paper, the San Francisco Chronicle. But things are looking grim over at Fifth & Mission. Today, the union that represents Chron reporters met w ... More >>

Armageddon for the Chronicle Here? Debate Amongst Yourselves

In the near future, this meteor strike may be a wire story for the Chronicle -- if the paper still existsHow many cuts can one newspaper take until there is no longer a newspaper? Like all dailies around the country, the San Francisco Chronicle seems to be running just that experiment ... More >>

Teamsters Head Uses Toilet, Death Analogies to Express Why New Chronicle Presses Must Be Unionized

"New plant opening up in Fremont -- looks like I'm out of work." In this, the San Francisco Chronicle's 144th birthday week, the paper has giddily promised its readers "144 days of extra surprises, leading up to the biggest of them all -- new presses." You won't read about it in the Chron, but not e ... More >>

Buy Line

In these desperate times, the Chronicle considers desperate measures.

Chron insiders hate Willie Brown's new column

In these desperate times, the Chronicle considers desperate measures.

Print is dying, but Chron gets glossy new press

In these desperate times, the Chronicle considers desperate measures.

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

In these desperate times, the Chronicle considers desperate measures.

Investigating the Future of Investigative Journalism. Part III: Who’s Going to Pay For All This?

In these desperate times, the Chronicle considers desperate measures.

Chronicle Building Landmarked, Up for Sale in Same Week

In these desperate times, the Chronicle considers desperate measures.

Rosey People

The Chron has Phil people and Rosey people. Correction--it only has Phil people now.

Chron 2.0

The Chron has Phil people and Rosey people. Correction--it only has Phil people now.

Letters to the Editor

Week of March 12, 2003

Terminal Condition

With the Examiner near death, an insider says the Fangs had 10 million reasons to run it on the cheap

Guesses Over Guinness

The regulars love to subvert the contest. It's yet another twist to the city's toughest pub trivia night.

Papered Over

The Chronicle turns its back on the people of Bayview-Hunters Point

Gone at the Chron

The paper loses a managing editor but gains a lot of nervous tension

Family Fortunes

Contractors accuse the Examiner's owners of not paying their bills

How Legends Are Born

It pains us to award the Columbia Journalism Review its very own dart.

The Price of Journalism

The Hearst Foundation's Annual Awards

MUD in Your Eye

A small group wants to foist a municipal utility district on the city without evidence its version of "public power" will work. Demand evidence.

Who Is Clint Reilly, Really?

He's running for mayor again, and this time he wants to define himself, before his enemies do it for him

KRONic Complaints

A media chain buys a local television station. Employees worry. Oh, the horror.

Apocalypse, Now and Then

A measured look at the serious policy implications of recent changes in San Francisco newspaper ownership

Dog Bites

Fricke-Parks lawsuit; Jondi and Spesh CD release; Dot-com junkies

Yellow-Bellied Journalism

Hearst executives' behavior in the Examiner sale was nothing less than cowardly

Letters to the Editor

Published May 3, 2000

Mecklin

Anatomy of a Mau-Mau

Dog Bites

The Ken Garcia Golden Handshake Countdown!

A Chance for Respect?

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

Deep Xanadu-doo

William Randolph Hearst's heirs want to build hotels and a golf course on his seaside estate, below his fabled castle. Ranchers and environmentalists are raising Kane.

Unspun

William Randolph Hearst's heirs want to build hotels and a golf course on his seaside estate, below his fabled castle. Ranchers and environmentalists are raising Kane.

Chatterbox

William Randolph Hearst's heirs want to build hotels and a golf course on his seaside estate, below his fabled castle. Ranchers and environmentalists are raising Kane.

Dish

William Randolph Hearst's heirs want to build hotels and a golf course on his seaside estate, below his fabled castle. Ranchers and environmentalists are raising Kane.

Dog Bites

William Randolph Hearst's heirs want to build hotels and a golf course on his seaside estate, below his fabled castle. Ranchers and environmentalists are raising Kane.

Dog Bites

William Randolph Hearst's heirs want to build hotels and a golf course on his seaside estate, below his fabled castle. Ranchers and environmentalists are raising Kane.

Dog Bites

William Randolph Hearst's heirs want to build hotels and a golf course on his seaside estate, below his fabled castle. Ranchers and environmentalists are raising Kane.

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