The media in the San Francisco Bay Area has historically focused on

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but also includes two other major media centers,

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and San Jose. The

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, Nielsen Media Research, and other similar media organizations treat the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose Area as one entire

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. The region hosts to one of the oldest radio stations in the United States still in existence, KCBS (AM) (740 kHz), founded by engineer Charles Herrold in 1909. As the home of

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, the Bay Area is also a technologically advanced and innovative region, with many companies involved with

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or influential

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Print

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The first newspaper published by Americans in California was ''The Californian'', printed in Monterey in 1846 announcing the

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, written half in English and half Spanish. The press was moved to

and printing started up again on May 22, 1847 in competition with the weekly ''California Star'', beginning that January. The first newspaper published solely in English in San Francisco was ''The Star'' published by

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pioneer

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before San Francisco was renamed from

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in 1847. Both efforts suspended publication in the face of the

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. By August, ''The Californian'' had resumed publication, but by November 1848, both papers were bought and merged, then renamed the ''Alta California''. The press that once printed ''The Californian'' was moved to the Sacramento area to be used on the ''Placer Times''. The press was again moved and began publishing the Motherlode's first paper, the ''Sonora Herald'', then taken to Columbia to print the ''Columbia Star''. Within a few years of the discovery of gold, mother lode towns all had multiple competing journals. Before 1860, California had 57 newspapers and periodicals serving an average readership of 290,000.

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began publishing the ''Daily Evening Bulletin'' in San Francisco in October, 1855 and built it into the highest circulation paper in the city. He criticized a city supervisor named James P. Casey, who, on the afternoon of the story about him, ran in the paper, shot and mortally wounded King. Casey was lynched by the early vigilante committee. The ''Morning Call'' was established and began publishing in December 1856, and later merged with the ''Bulletin'' to become the long-running ''Call-Bulletin''. The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' debuted in June, 1865 as the ''Dramatic Chronicle'', founded by Charles and M.H. de Young aged 19 and 17. In 1887, young

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took over his father's ''Daily Examiner'', which became the flagship of his national chain.

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became editor of the ''San Francisco Bulletin'' in 1895 and took up the struggle against the powerful

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and along with fellow Californian Lincoln Steffens, became a well-known

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and the first objective observer to accuse District Attorney

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of the framing of labor radical Thomas Mooney. The oldest African-American newspaper, still active in the 1930s, was the ''California Eagle''. It appeared first in Los Angeles in 1879. The first French journals, the ''Californien'' and the ''Gazette Republicane'' both began in 1850, and were followed by the ''Courrier du Pacifique'' in 1852. Both the first German and first Italian papers, the ''California Demokrat'' (1852) and the ''Voce del Popolo'' (1859) were founded in San Francisco and had long runs. Chinese in California have published many newspapers, the first being the ''Gold Hills News'' in 1854. Noted journalists, writers, cartoonists and publishers have passed through San Francisco's media world, including: *

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* Gertrude Atherton *

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* Winifred Bonfils * John Bruce * Bruce Brugmann * Gelett Burgess *

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* William Martin Camp * Phil Elwood *

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* Warren Hinkle * Art Hoppe * Wallace Irwin *

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* Charles McCabe * Joaquin Miller *

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* Randy Shilts * Charles Warren Stoddard *

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* John L. Wasserman By the early decades of the 20th century, San Francisco supported four major dailies and numerous influential weeklies. The dailies were the '' San Francisco Call'' (later ''Call-Bulletin''), the ''

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'', the ''

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'' and the

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-owned '' Daily News''. The weeklies included the ''

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'', the '' Argonaut'', the ''

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'', the ''

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'', '' Emanu-el'', '' Liberator'' and the '' News Letter''. Today, several newspapers, covering community, regional, national, and international news, and community-specific papers, catering to niche markets and individual neighborhoods, are in circulation in the San Francisco Bay Area. The major

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newspapers include the daily '' East Bay Times'', ''

'', ''

'', and '' San Jose Mercury News''. The weekly alternative papers are the ''

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'', '' East Bay Express'', and ''

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''. '' The Epoch Times'', '' Singtao Daily'', '' World Journal'', and ''Kangzhongguo'' are among the Asian newspapers that serve the Bay Area.

Newspapers

* '' East Bay Times'' (Walnut Creek) – daily broadsheet * '' The Daily News'' (Palo Alto) – weekly tabloid * '' East Bay Express'' (Oakland) – weekly alternative * '' Marin Independent Journal'' ( Novato) – daily broadsheet * '' The Epoch Times'' (

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) – weekly broadsheet * ''

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'' (San Jose) – daily broadsheet * ''

'' (San Jose) – weekly alternative * '' El Observador'' (San Jose) Spanish/English bilingual weekly * ''

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'' (Palo Alto) daily tabloid * ''

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'' (Palo Alto) weekly tabloid * ''The Recorder'' (San Francisco) – daily legal newspaper * '' San Francisco Business Times'' (San Francisco) – weekly

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* '' San Francisco Daily Journal'' (San Francisco) – daily legal newspaper * '' The San Francisco Examiner'' (San Francisco) – daily

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* '' Silicon Valley Business Journal'' (San Jose) – weekly business * Several other community-based papers, published on a daily or weekly basis ;Former newspapers * ''

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'' (Alameda) * '' The Argus'' (Fremont) – daily broadsheet * '' Contra Costa Times'' (Walnut Creek) – daily broadsheet * '' Daily Review'' (Hayward) – daily broadsheet * '' Oakland Tribune'' (Oakland) – daily broadsheet * '' Peninsula Times Tribune'' (Palo Alto) – daily broadsheet * ''

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'' (Redwood City) daily tabloid * ''

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'' – weekly

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* '' San Francisco Progress'' thrice-weekly broadsheet * ''

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) – Chinese * '' The Oakland Post'' (Oakland) – African American * '' San Francisco Bay View'' (San Francisco) – African American * ''

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) – Chinese daily broadsheet * '' Vietnam Daily News'' (San Jose) Vietnamese daily * ''

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'' (Alameda) – Hispanic * '' World Journal'' (San Francisco) – Chinese daily broadsheet * Several other Asian and Hispanic newspapers ;Former ethnic newspapers * '' Cái Đình Làng'' (San Francisco) Vietnamese * ''

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'' (San Jose) Spanish weekly * '' SaigonUSA'' (San Jose) Vietnamese semiweekly * ''

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'' (San Francisco) Vietnamese * '' Trống Đồng'' (San Jose) Vietnamese weekly * ''

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'' (San Jose) Vietnamese weekly * '' East West The Chinese American Journal'' (San Francisco) Chinese English weekly * '' Việt Nam Tự Do'' (San Jose) Vietnamese daily * ''

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'' (San Jose) Vietnamese weekly * '' Vietnam Family'' (, San Jose) Vietnamese weekly * ''

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'' (, San Jose) Vietnamese monthly * '' Vietnam Times'' (, San Jose) Vietnamese daily * '' VTimes'' (San Jose) Vietnamese Several college newspapers also exist as well in the Bay Area, including: * ''

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'' ( Contra Costa College) weekly broadsheet * ''The Campanil'' (

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) daily broadsheet * ''Golden Gate XPress'' (

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) weekly * ''

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) weekly tabloid * ''

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) weekly tabloid * ''Spartan Daily'' (

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) thrice-weekly broadsheet * ''

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Television

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in the United States, with four of the six major U.S.

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) having owned-and-operated stations serving the region. All five, plus major Spanish-language networks

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, and

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KNTV KNTV (channel 11), branded as NBC Bay Area, is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's NBC network outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Sta ...

KSTS KSTS (channel 48) is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Telemundo network to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group al ...

studios in San Jose's

North San Jose Innovation District Rincon de los Esteros, also known as Innovation Triangle, the Golden Triangle, the Innovation District, or simply as Rincon, is a vast district of San Jose, California, making up a significant portion of North San Jose. The district has one of t ...

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KRON-TV KRON-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, KRON-TV maintains studios on Front Street in the c ...

is housed in the same building. In addition to local television channels, several television networks have regional news bureaus in the San Francisco Bay Area, including

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CNN CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the M ...

ESPN ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). The ...

MSNBC MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and political ...

Al Jazeera America Al Jazeera America was an American pay television news channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network. The channel was launched on August 20, 2013, to compete with CNN, HLN, MSNBC, Fox News, and in certain markets RT America. It was Al Jazeera' ...

Russia Today RT (formerly Russia Today or Rossiya Segodnya (russian: Россия Сегодня) is a Russian state-controlled international news television network funded by the Russian government. It operates pay television and free-to-air channels ...

CCTV America CGTN America is a channel of China Global Television Network (CGTN), the international division of the state-owned media organization China Central Television (CCTV), the headquarters of which is in Beijing, China. It is one of six international ...

, and

PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcasting, public broadcaster and Non-commercial activity, non-commercial, Terrestrial television, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly fu ...

. Regional sports networks

NBC Sports Bay Area NBC Sports Bay Area (sometimes abbreviated as NBCS Bay Area) is an American regional sports network owned as a joint venture between NBCUniversal and the San Francisco Giants, and operates as an affiliate of NBC Sports Regional Networks. Headquart ...

and

NBC Sports California NBC Sports California (sometimes abbreviated as NBCS California) is an American regional sports network owned by the NBC Sports Group unit of NBCUniversal, and operates as an affiliate of NBC Sports Regional Networks. The channel broadcasts regio ...

both originate from the studios of NBC-

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Radio

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The San Francisco Bay Area is currently the fourth-largest radio market in the United States, with all of the major U.S.

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s having affiliates serving the region. While most radio stations targeting the Bay Area originate in San Francisco, it also includes stations broadcasting from San Jose, mostly to South Bay listeners and other parts of the Bay Area depending on reception. The San Jose radio market ranks as the 37th largest, but is considered an embedded market within the Bay Area. Radio broadcasting in the region can be traced back to the efforts of Charles Herrold and

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as early as 1907; Herrold would ultimately establish station KQW in 1921, now known as KCBS.

Online

Online publications

Besides websites that exist in addition to print publications, many publications that only exist online have come into existence in recent years. The most notable include: * Asian Week *

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SF *

SF Public Press San Francisco Public Press, a.k.a. SF Public Press, is a non-profit online and print news organization covering the Bay Area. It was founded in 2009. The organization receives funding from The San Francisco Foundation and is fiscally sponsored by ...

SFist Gothamist LLC is the operator, or in some cases franchisor, of eight city-centric websites that focused on news, events, food, culture, and other local coverage. It was founded in 2003 by Jake Dobkin and Jen Chung. In March 2017, Joe Ricketts, ...

The Tender ''The Tender'' was a news blog published 2009–2011, covering life in San Francisco's fifty square block Tenderloin District. History Originally titled "The Tenderblog", The Tender was published by couple Èlia Varela Serra (a native of Spain) ...

AJ+ AJ, or variants, may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Fictional characters * A. J. (''The Fairly OddParents''), a fictional character * A.J. Soprano, a fictional character in ''The Sopranos'' * Superspinner AJ, a fictional character in t ...

, part of Al Jazeera Media Network

Internet and social media

As the home of

, several high technology companies involved with

social media Social media are interactive media technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks. While challenges to the definition of ''social medi ...

are either headquartered or have a significant presence in the Bay Area. These include the following: *

Facebook Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin M ...

Google Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...

Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a fil ...

Pandora Radio Pandora is a subscription-based music streaming service owned by Sirius XM Holdings based in Oakland, California, United States. The service carries a focus on recommendations based on the "Music Genome Project" — a means of classifying indiv ...

Twitter Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ...

Yahoo! Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Man ...

YouTube YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by ...

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Newspapers

Magazines

Television

Radio

Online

Online publications

Internet and social media

See also

References