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  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Oakland Tribune to Move Back to Downtown

    Ironically, don't count on it to give you the correct time​Just two months ago, the Bay Area News Group announced sad news -- it was cutting jobs and consolidating newspapers, delivering most of its content under the name the East Bay Times. However, the media group is now reversing course, saying ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Hilton Hotels Sued for Charging Guests for a Morning Newspaper

    Hey, I didn't ask for that. ​People just don't want to have to pay for newspapers these days. Americans are cancelling their subscriptions in droves. Everyone is still groaning about the New York Times website's pay wall. And now, people are suing Hilton Hotels for allegedly charging 75 cents for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    It's Official: The Bay Citizen Unionizes

    Hellman's Frankenstein Monster ​Just a year after Warren Hellman launched The Bay Citizen, the editorial newsroom decided to officially unionize. On May 26, The Bay Citizen signed union cards indicating they want to join the Pacific Media Workers Guild, Local 39521 of The Newspaper Guild-Communica ... More >>

  • Film

    June 29, 2011

    "Page One": Producer Kate Novak on Getting Inside the New York Times

    Hellman's Frankenstein Monster ​Just a year after Warren Hellman launched The Bay Citizen, the editorial newsroom decided to officially unionize. On May 26, The Bay Citizen signed union cards indicating they want to join the Pacific Media Workers Guild, Local 39521 of The Newspaper Guild-Communica ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    San Francisco Examiner Sure Seems to Love Hiring White Dudes

    Them's the facts​Why the San Francisco Examiner gives its lone female columnist, Melissa Griffin, a full body photo to accompany her prose is one of those questions you ask, but then you kinda don't want to know the answer. As we all can see, in contrast, the newspaper's male columnists have nothi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 29, 2010

    Creative Trifecta

    Them's the facts​Why the San Francisco Examiner gives its lone female columnist, Melissa Griffin, a full body photo to accompany her prose is one of those questions you ask, but then you kinda don't want to know the answer. As we all can see, in contrast, the newspaper's male columnists have nothi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Ray Ratto Leaving Chronicle

    ​Word out of the San Francisco Chronicle newsroom is that Ray Ratto, the paper's longtime prolix sports columnist, is leaving the newsprint world -- a move Ratto has confirmed to SF Weekly. Ratto is jumping ship and heading over to Comcast, where he'll do TV work and write a blog; he is already a ... More >>

  • News

    November 4, 2009

    List: The Chronicle looks on the bright side

    ​Word out of the San Francisco Chronicle newsroom is that Ray Ratto, the paper's longtime prolix sports columnist, is leaving the newsprint world -- a move Ratto has confirmed to SF Weekly. Ratto is jumping ship and heading over to Comcast, where he'll do TV work and write a blog; he is already a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 12, 2009

    Diz and the Gang

    ​Word out of the San Francisco Chronicle newsroom is that Ray Ratto, the paper's longtime prolix sports columnist, is leaving the newsprint world -- a move Ratto has confirmed to SF Weekly. Ratto is jumping ship and heading over to Comcast, where he'll do TV work and write a blog; he is already a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    Out With the Old, In With the New: City Installs Shiny Newsracks for San Franciscans to Befoul

    Joe EskenaziNew pay toilets installed in the city!​Here at SF Weekly, we've dutifully recorded the indignities meted out against our signature, red newspaper boxes. Placated with bizarre offerings? Check. Reconfigured into a formation befitting prehistoric druids? Got it. Blowed up good -- blowed ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2009

    Still Fit to Print?

    Joe EskenaziNew pay toilets installed in the city!​Here at SF Weekly, we've dutifully recorded the indignities meted out against our signature, red newspaper boxes. Placated with bizarre offerings? Check. Reconfigured into a formation befitting prehistoric druids? Got it. Blowed up good -- blowed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    Passing of S.F. Letter-To-Editor Savant Marks End of Bland, Pointless Newspaper Era

    Not everyone can have the write stuff...The just-delivered June 15 issue of The Nation includes a wonderful obituary of San Francisco epistolist Cy Shain, who, as an octogenarian, mastered the prose form of the New York Times letters page."Shain, who held a variety of government posts in judicial e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2009

    Phil Bronstein on The Colbert Report: The Engine House is On Fire

    Phil Bronstein, former executive vice president and editor of the Chronicle, now editor at large and newspaper doomsayer, was on The Colbert Report last night. Nothing particularly revelatory was said, which was not a surprise as the quick interviews that take place on the show are not so much an op ... More >>

  • News

    March 4, 2009

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

    Phil Bronstein, former executive vice president and editor of the Chronicle, now editor at large and newspaper doomsayer, was on The Colbert Report last night. Nothing particularly revelatory was said, which was not a surprise as the quick interviews that take place on the show are not so much an op ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    MediaNews Lawyer Denies Ex-Reporter's Discrimination Claims

    A lawyer for MediaNews Group says the newspaper chain plans to deny allegations of discrimination in a lawsuit filed earlier this month by a former reporter at the Monterey County Herald. Andre Briscoe, a black man who worked at the MediaNews-owned Herald from August 2005 through January 2008, asse ... More >>

  • News

    November 26, 2008

    Buy Line

    In these desperate times, the Chronicle considers desperate measures.

  • News

    September 24, 2008

    Chronicle loses its books editors

    In these desperate times, the Chronicle considers desperate measures.

  • News

    July 30, 2008

    Chron insiders hate Willie Brown's new column

    In these desperate times, the Chronicle considers desperate measures.

  • News

    March 26, 2008

    Let the Sun Shine, You Hypocrites

    Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2008

    Mirkarimi to Newspapers: Get Your Papers Off My Damn Lawn

    Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.

  • News

    March 19, 2008

    Bay Area News Group asks staff to devise a 'NewPaper'

    Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2008

    The Brute Fires Back

    Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2008

    And Whether Pigs Have Wings

    Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2008

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

    Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2007

    Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Douchey Sheriff Joe Arpaio's House

    Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.

  • News

    July 25, 2007

    Gate Keepers

    Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.

  • News

    July 11, 2007

    Unfair Lawsuit Act

    SF Weekly moves to dismiss the Guardian's lawsuit, which is light on witnesses and evidence

  • News

    July 4, 2007

    Unfair Lawsuit Act

    SF Weekly moves to dismiss the Guardian's lawsuit, which is light on witnesses and evidence

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2007

    You hate us. You really, really like us. -- The Nation's confused take on Village Voice Media

    SF Weekly moves to dismiss the Guardian's lawsuit, which is light on witnesses and evidence

  • News

    June 6, 2007

    Mazzola Is Slippery

    The union boss has once more escaped punishment for funds diversion

  • News

    November 22, 2006

    Two Cents Too Much

    Taking an example from the Chron's random-crank database

  • News

    September 13, 2006

    Wednesday, September 13, 2006

    Taking an example from the Chron's random-crank database

  • News

    December 14, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, December 14, 2005

  • News

    September 7, 2005

    Brugmann's Brain Vomit

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

  • News

    June 1, 2005

    The Daily Lickspittle

    Journalism has a lot of problems, but too many of them are manifestations of a sycophantic attitude toward the big-e Establishment

  • News

    December 8, 2004

    Can Light Stay Afloat?

    POINT REYES -- Can Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Mitchell keep his small, renowned, and cash-starved newspaper going? It's a question...

  • News

    March 5, 2003

    Terminal Condition

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

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002

    Best Thing About the San Francisco Examiner

    The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

  • News

    May 9, 2001

    Read It, Hug It

    The new Chron may not be better, but it is more emotionally available

  • News

    August 2, 2000

    A New War of Words

    Are you ready for a real newspaper rivalry?

  • News

    March 22, 2000

    Mecklin

    Anatomy of a Mau-Mau

  • News

    June 23, 1999

    We're Honored

    Anatomy of a Mau-Mau

  • News

    April 28, 1999

    We're Honored

    Anatomy of a Mau-Mau

  • Calendar

    December 23, 1998

    Mecklin

    Anatomy of a Mau-Mau

  • Calendar

    January 29, 1997

    Unspun

    Anatomy of a Mau-Mau

  • News

    January 31, 1996

    Blowing Smoke, Breathing Fire (Part I)

    The Fang family rides tabloid journalism and hardball politics to the winner's circle

  • News

    April 26, 1995

    Dog Bites

    The Fang family rides tabloid journalism and hardball politics to the winner's circle

  • News

    March 15, 1995

    Letters

    The Fang family rides tabloid journalism and hardball politics to the winner's circle

  • News

    March 8, 1995

    Two-bit rag

    The Examiner's desperate circulation struggle

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