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Yes, SF Weekly Was Sold to the Same Guy Who Owns the Examiner and Bay Guardian

SF Weekly was officially sold to the San Francisco Newspaper Company, which also owns the San Francisco Examiner and our longtime rival, the Bay Guardian. As of midnight Wednesday, SF Weekly staff was no longer employed by Voice Media Group. Todd Vogt, president and publisher of the SF Newspaper Co ... More >>

Newspaper Drama in the South Bay Gives Other Newspapers Something to Write About

There's nothing we enjoy more than a petty newspaper fight, especially one that includes the phrase "put down the news rack."Down in the South Bay, the San Jose Mercury News was busted with news racks from competing papers inside a dumpster at the Merc's headquarters, including those belonging to th ... More >>

New York Times to Sell Press Democrat, 15 Other Papers

​Another Bay Area newspaper shake up is imminent. The New York Times Company announced this week that it's selling The Press Democrat, the Bay Area's fifth largest newspaper. Romenesko shared the news yesterday, explaining that the Santa Rosa newspaper as well as 15 other regional papers, includin ... More >>

San Francisco Examiner Hires a Woman

While the Bay Guardian is wallowing in its recent bout of layoffs, we heard some good, no, great news that's sure to close the gender gap ever so slightly: The San Francisco Examiner's editorial department has hired ... a woman.Gasp!SF Weekly (and Ex) readers will recall last month when we pointed o ... More >>

Demand Media: Why SFGate's Real Estate Section Reads Like a Grade School Book Report

Matt SmithNow them's some gooood readin'​Direct your browser to SFGate.com's "Home Guide" section for the rare experience  of news articles written as if for morons so ignorant they've never read an actual newspaper.According to the lead sentence in a article about house prices, "Real estate ... More >>

Hey, Dave Eggers: Panorama is Like Candlelight Dinner. We Wanted Apple Dippers.

The future of journalism metaphors? ​Last week, I brought Panorama with me on my morning commute. It was raining, and I was carrying more than 3 pounds of San Francisco literary history: huge, smooth-as-polyester broadsheet pages, gorgeous graphics, 350,000 brilliantly edited words. I thought I wo ... More >>

Bay Area News Project Editor, CEO Introduce Themselves

​Out-of-work Bay Area journalists, start your resume engines. The Warren Hellman-bankrolled Bay Area News Project moments ago announced it has inked a CEO and Editor-In-Chief and is looking to hire "about 15 full-time journalists by the end of the year." According to newly installed EIC Jonathan W ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Tweeting His Fingers to the Bone

mountaineer/FlickrIt's not all foie gras and Neapolitan thin crust.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Too much fun: Chronicle food czar Michael Bauer reflects on restaurant reviewers' new reality, after all the tweeting and Facebook friending and blogging the Internets have given rise to. F ... More >>

How Will You Celebrate National Punctuation Day? Don't Worry -- You've Got a Little While To Figure It Out.

Punctuation maven Jeff Rubin bakes up a questionable cake​This week, Jeff Rubin wants you to bake a cake in the shape of a colon. Yes, you read that right. The Pinole resident is the brains behind National Punctuation Day -- mark your calendars friends, it's Thursday -- which the former New York P ... More >>

Craigslist executive accuses newspapers of hurting his site's bottom line

S.F. Supes Discover The Internet Is a Series of Tubes for Sending Pennies to Your Cronies

'We don't bid, or go in for these city contracts, and we don't intend to do it now.'If one attends any meeting, at any time of day or night, at San Francisco's City Hall, one's likely to find buzz-cut shutterbug Luke Thomas taking photographs for his Web site Fogcityjournal.com. His 10,000 monthly r ... More >>

Seen In San Francisco: Newsstand Artist Unveils Latest Obama Portrait

Fred, just FredHere's a good reason to visit your local newsstand...During election season, we wrote about the newsstand proprietor at Church and Market who posted a pair of notably fine pencil drawings of presidential contenders John McCain and Barack Obama in his kiosk. After Obama won in a landsl ... More >>

Turning the Chronicle into the Bay Guardian Won't Save It

In the months since Hearst announced it might sell or close the Chronicle, I've read one hundred different reasons explaining why the paper is on the brink of collapse. The dumbest "analysis," though, has to be that the Chron is suffering because it's not "progressive" enough. That line has been p ... More >>

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 >>

Chronicle Workers' Big Vote Will Be On Thursday

Sources from within the San Francisco Chronicle newsroom have told SF Weekly that the vote on management's slightly less draconian proposal will be 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday at San Francisco's Parc 55 Hotel -- conveniently located within stumbling distance of the Chronicle Building.A simple major ... More >>

Dismissed Reporter Sues MediaNews Group, Alleges Race Discrimination

A former reporter at the Monterey County Herald has sued the Northern California newspaper and its parent company, MediaNews Group, alleging that he was underpaid and then fired because of his race. MediaNews, headed by press mogul Dean Singleton (pictured), is also a major presence in the Bay Area ... More >>

Weekly to Judge: Time to Put Things Right

SF Gov InAction: Same Old Shit Gets Bigger Tax Breaks; Jake McGoldrick's Charter Amendment Retirement Tour Heats Up, and Did Somebody Say "Peaker Plants?"

SF Weekly Letters

On Common Sense

Actual, Living Advertiser Testifies

Staph Infection Coverage Generates Gay Health Hysteria

THE SF Bay Guardian's SHAKEDOWN HITS A SNAG

Investigating the Future of Investigative Journalism. Part II – Journalists and Bloggers: ‘Let’s Not Throw Grenades at Each Other’

Court Coverage

Despite recently eliminating one-quarter of the newsroom, the Chron still has the money to send sportswriters to the U.S. Open

Must Work for Free

By not paying their interns, some Bay Area publications may be violating the state labor code

It Will Keep Shining

After years of self-sacrifice, legendary newspaper editor Dave Mitchell sells his beloved Point Reyes Light

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Reason to Question

Is the Bay Guardian's lawsuit against SF Weekly connected to Bruce B. Brugmann's unfortunate business judgments?

Of Asterisks and Small Pols

When the city government tries to play satire police with the press, everyone with a sense of humor -- and a belief in the Constitution -- should be concerned

Letters to the Editor

Week of July 3,2002

Off the Waterfront

News media have abandoned the labor beat and missed a story of global financial import: the looming possibility of a longshoremen's strike at West Coast ports

Best View for the Price of a Muni Fare

Chump Changes

Journalists are playing into the hands of George Bush when they unthinkingly insist that everything is different since Sept. 11

Dog Bites

Overpriced Sports Star Joins Local Team; Light Reading; A Match Made in Heaven; A Suggestion for Rearranging the Deck Chairs at Salon.com

Snake in the Basement: The Prosecution of Reverend Bill Pruitt

Accusations of child molestation are dramatized in an emotionally charged puppet show

Best Dead Newspaper

SF Frontlines

Best Place to Day-dream About Faraway Places With Strange-Sounding Names

The Middle of the Golden Gate Bridge

Apocalypse Then

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

Even More Honors

Dog Bites

The Grid

Dog Bites

Beat the Press

His 15 Minutes

Cleaning up on violent deaths

Father Knows Bud Didn't Use Heroin

How a false rumor of drug use dogged the life and career of actor Billy Gray

Letters

Beat the Press

Hinckle, Hinckle, Little Star (Part I)

There are two joys in life -- making things and breaking things -- and pirate journalist Warren Hinckle has excelled at both

Dog Bites