''The Daily News'', later titled ''The San Francisco News'', was a newspaper published in
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
,
California
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. It was founded in 1903 by
E. W. Scripps
Edward Willis Scripps (June 18, 1854 – March 12, 1926), was an American newspaper publisher and, together with his sister Ellen Browning Scripps, founder of The E. W. Scripps Company, a diversified media conglomerate, and United Press ne ...
as a four-page
penny paper
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.
In its early years, it was the smallest of the several newspapers in San Francisco. It advertised itself as the "friend of the working man." It was distributed only in
working class
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districts: Mission District, Skid Row, South of the Slot. It specialized in short, easy-to-read stories one to two paragraphs long. After the
1906 earthquake, it operated out of a former "relief house". Later special effects and
stop-motion animation
Stop motion is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames i ...
pioneer
Willis H. O'Brien
Willis Harold O'Brien (March 2, 1886 – November 8, 1962) was an American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer, who according to ASIFA-Hollywood "was responsible for some of the best-known images in cinema history," ...
was a sports cartoonist for the paper in the 1910s. In 1919 the newspaper had a circulation of about 18,000.
It changed its name to ''The San Francisco News'' in 1927, and in August 1959 merged with
Hearst's ''The Call Bulletin'' to form the ''
San Francisco News-Call Bulletin
''The San Francisco Call'' was a newspaper that served San Francisco, California. Because of a succession of mergers with other newspapers, the paper variously came to be called ''The San Francisco Call & Post'', the ''San Francisco Call-Bulletin ...
''.
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Newspapers published in San Francisco
Daily newspapers published in the San Francisco Bay Area
1903 establishments in California
Publications established in 1903
1959 disestablishments in California
Publications disestablished in 1959
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