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Matthew Keys, Reuters Reporter, Accused of Colluding With Anonymous to Hack the LA Times

Matthew Keys, the deputy social media editor at Reuters in Sacramento, was indicted today for allegedly working with members of the hacktivist group Anonymous to help the anti-government organization hack into the LA Times and alter a news story. According to the Department of Justice, the 26-year ... More >>

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 >>

Image Is Everything

Image Expo 2012: Berkeley Publisher to Spotlight Creator-Owned Comics at February Event

With WonderCon temporarily relocating to Anaheim in 2012 due to the Moscone remodel, Bay Area comics creators, publishers, and fans despaired of going without a major con in the region during the coming year. But Image Comics has come to the rescue. The Berkeley-based publisher of The Walking Dead, ... 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 >>

Phil Anschutz to Sell the San Francisco Examiner

Does this mean they will stop endorsing Tea Party Republicans?​Clarity Media Group announced today that it will sell the San Francisco Examiner -- the city's daily free tabloid. Phil Anschutz, the evangelical media mogul, announced that his Denver-based company has agreed to sell the Ex to Black P ... More >>

Why Are Tech Journos Suddenly Interested in News Corp. Scandal?

​When I was a staff editor at the tech-news site CNET News.com in the late '90s, one of the top editors there used to insist that we "localize" big news events by writing about how they were being covered and discussed on the Internet. So, for example, the death of Princess Di and the impeachment ... More >>

Online Publishers Not Happy About Being Cut Off Over Amazon.com Sales Tax Scrap

For many online publishers, Amazon has closed up shop.​Thousands of Californians learned yesterday that Amazon would no longer be paying them to participate in Amazon's affiliate marketing program. The reason? The proposed state budget includes a measure that would force Amazon to pay sales tax on ... More >>

The Art of Words

Reddit Employs Novel Financial Strategy: Begging

'But you have 280 million monthly pageviews, my good man!'​Heavy traffic, a lean staff -- easier to achieve when you don't employ your own reporters -- and a comfortable spot under the aegis of a corporate publishing titan. If this sounds like a recipe for Internet media success, think again: the ... More >>

How to Win Friends

Free Samples

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 >>

Want evidence of the decline of print media? Go to the library.

Gourmet is Folding. Maybe Ruth Reichl Will Have More Time to Scarf Bakesale Betty Sandwiches

​Like a lot of you, we were shocked and saddened to read this morning that Gourmet magazine, one of the jewels in Condé Nast's publishing crown, is to cease publishing after the November issue. Ad pages at Condé Nast have been falling off a cliff, but the smart money was on the impending fol ... More >>

Layoffs Commence -- Yes, Again -- At the Chronicle

​Word from the Chronicle newsroom came SF Weekly's way this afternoon that the paper's "after Labor Day" layoff date is right here, right now. Newspaper employees were informed less than an hour ago that the paper is, once again, downsizing. A bulletin was sent out by the Newspaper Guild that Chro ... More >>

Bay Area News Group East Bay's Newsrooms Just Got a Lot Roomier -- 17 Shown the Door

http://www.big13.netAnd the time for newsroom layoffs -- is nowAn e-mail ominously titled "staff changes" was moments ago circulated to employees of the Bay Area News Group in the East Bay. Kevin Keane -- the chain's executive editor and the author of the memo -- seems to have the same definition of ... More >>

Still Fit to Print?

Brave New (Conflicted) World

A veteran reporter turns to the world of public relations — and keeps reporting.

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

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 >>

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 >>

Fledgling Newspaper Union Appeals Labor Board Decision

By John Geluardi Three Contra Costa Times reporters, who say they were targeted for layoffs once they succeeded in forming a union, filed an appeal last week with the federal labor board after the board rejected their initial complaint for lack of evidence. Last July, just weeks after organizers ... More >>

East Bay Newspaper Managers Continue to Cut Jobs

The World According to Danzig

Tell Newspaper Reporters What You REALLY Think

How Not to Lie

San Francisco Zine Fest this Weekend

Newspaper Union Accuses Company Of Retaliation

Former Employee Flicks Off Mercury News on Flickr

Storytime, Yay!

Ward Bushee to Bring More McNews to Chronicle

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

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

Xiu Xiu Takes Camel, Rolling Stone to Court Over Dastardly Ad Practices

Paper Chase

The Guild is up against a cost-cutting mogul and declining revenues, but the union continues to seek converts

Harry's End

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

Must Work for Free

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

Where To?

The book of the future will look like the book of the past

Publish It Yourself

See the classics of tomorrow at this weekend's San Francisco Zinefest

Censorship for Dummies

John Wiley & Sons New Jersey, 2004

The New Media Monopoly

News & Reviews

Best New Zine

Kitchen Sink

Digital Wage

What a difference a year makes, to the country, and to the New Economy

Checkout

Safeway does something good with books but is too paranoid to take credit

Best Comic Book Store

Comic Relief

Even More Honors

Smells Like Zine Spirit

Factsheet 5 Publisher Seth Friedman comes under attack from some of his own

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.