''The Tender'' was a news blog published 2009–2011, covering life 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 ...

's fifty square block Tenderloin District.

History

Originally titled "The Tenderblog", The Tender was published by couple Èlia Varela Serra (a native of Spain) and

Miquel Hudin Miquel Hudin is an American- Croatian writer based in Catalonia, Spain. He created a series of wine travel books called, Vinologue in 2008. He additionally writes for his website, Hudin.com since its launch in 2011. Biography Originally from th ...

(a native northern Californian), focusing on the Tenderloin,

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, Mid-Market,

Tendernob The Tendernob (or TenderNob) is an area in San Francisco, California between Nob Hill area to the north and the Tenderloin to the south. The name is a portmanteau of Tenderloin and Nob Hill, and is often used by realtors for marketing purpose ...

, and

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neighborhoods of San Francisco. When Serra and Hudin returned to Serra's native Spain in November 2011, the couple stopped publication, allowing the site to go dormant, its archives remaining online.

Content

With an estimated monthly readership of 40,000, ''The Tender'' focused on district current events, restaurants, arts, and general social issues — earning a place as one of San Francisco's strongest neighborhood blogs and earning the respect of San Franciscans. Because of its in-depth knowledge of the Tenderloin, larger publications were known to pick up stories first published in ''The Tender'', as with June 2011 coverage of a long-established diner leaving the neighborhood subsequently carried up by the ''

San Francisco Chronicle The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded in 1865 as ''The Daily Dramatic Chronicle'' by teenage brothers Charles de Young and M. H. de Young, Michael H. de ...

''.

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), Eater SF, and Grubstreet SF. — and October 2010 coverage of a four-alarm apartment building fire subsequently carried by ''

SF Weekly ''SF Weekly'' was a free alternative weekly newspaper founded in the 1970s in San Francisco, California. It was distributed every Thursday, and was published by the San Francisco Print Media Company. The paper has won national journalism awards, ...

'', SF Appeal, and SFist.

Awards

The Tender was nominated for both Best San Francisco Neighborhood Blog and Best Flickr Pool in the ''

'' - Web Awards 2011.

References

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