The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' is a newspaper serving primarily the

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. It was founded in 1865 as ''The Daily Dramatic Chronicle'' by teenage brothers

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and Michael H. de Young. The paper is owned by the

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, which bought it from the de Young family in 2000. It is the only major daily paper covering the city and county of San Francisco. The paper benefited from the growth of San Francisco and had the largest

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on the

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by 1880. Like other newspapers, it experienced a rapid fall in circulation in the early 21st century and was ranked 18th nationally by circulation in the first quarter of 2021. In 1994, the newspaper launched the

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website, with a soft launch in March and official launch November 3, 1994, including both content from the newspaper and other sources. "The Gate" as it was known at launch was the first large market newspaper website in the world, co-founded by Allen Weiner and John Coate. It went on to staff up with its own columnists and reporters, and even won
Pulitzer Prize for Mark Fiore's political cartoons
In 2013, the newspaper launched its own

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website, SFChronicle.com, and began the separation of

and the ''Chronicle'' brands, which today are two separately run entities.

History

The ''Chronicle'' was founded by brothers

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and

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in 1865 as ''The Daily Dramatic Chronicle'', funded by a borrowed $20 gold piece. Their brother Gustavus was named with Charles on the masthead. Within 10 years, it had the largest circulation of any newspaper west of the

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. The paper's first office was in a building at the corner of Bush and Kearney Streets. The brothers then commissioned a building from

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at 690 Market Street at the corner of Third and Kearney Streets to be their new headquarters, in what became known as Newspaper Row. The new building, San Francisco's first skyscraper, was completed in 1889. It was damaged in the 1906 earthquake, but it was rebuilt under the direction of William Polk, Burnham's associate in San Francisco. That building, known as the "Old ''Chronicle'' Building" or the "DeYoung Building", still stands and was restored in 2007. It is a historic landmark and is the location of the

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. In 1924, the ''Chronicle'' commissioned a new headquarters at 901

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on the corner of 5th Street in what is now the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco. It was designed by Charles Peter Weeks and William Peyton Day in the

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style, but most of the Gothic Revival detailing was removed in 1968 when the building was re-clad with stucco. This building remains the ''Chronicle''s headquarters in 2017, although other concerns are located there as well. Between

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and 1971, new editor Scott Newhall took a bold and somewhat provocative approach to news presentation. Newhall's ''Chronicle'' included investigative reporting by such journalists as

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, who later played a prominent role in national politics, and Paul Avery, the staffer who pursued the trail of the self-named "

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", who sent a

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in three sections in letters to the ''Chronicle'' and two other papers during his murder spree in the late 1960s. It also featured such colorful columnists as Pauline Phillips, who wrote under the name "

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," "Count Marco" (Marc Spinelli), Stanton Delaplane, Terence O'Flaherty,

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, Art Hoppe, Charles McCabe, and

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. The newspaper grew in circulation to become the city's largest, overtaking the rival ''

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''. The demise of other San Francisco dailies through the late 1950s and early 1960s left the ''Examiner'' and the ''Chronicle'' to battle for circulation and readership superiority.

Joint operating agreement

The competition between the ''Chronicle'' and ''Examiner'' took a financial toll on both papers until the summer of 1965, when a merger of sorts created a Joint Operating Agreement under which the ''Chronicle'' became the city's sole morning daily while the ''Examiner'' changed to afternoon publication (which ultimately led to a declining readership). The newspapers were officially owned by the San Francisco Newspaper Agency, which managed sales and distribution for both newspapers and was charged with ensuring that one newspaper's circulation did not grow at the expense of the other.

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was split equally, which led to a situation widely understood to benefit the ''Examiner'', since the ''Chronicle'', which had a circulation four times larger than its rival, subsidized the afternoon newspaper.Gorney, Cynthia Gorney (January/February 1999)
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''. Retrieved November 17, 2012. The two newspapers produced a joint Sunday edition, with the ''Examiner'' publishing the news sections and the Sunday magazine, and the ''Chronicle'' responsible for the tabloid-sized entertainment section and the book review. From 1965 on the two papers shared a single classified-advertising operation. This arrangement stayed in place until the Hearst Corporation took full control of the ''Chronicle'' in 2000.

Push into the suburbs

Beginning in the early 1990s, the ''Chronicle'' began to face competition beyond the borders of San Francisco. The newspaper had long enjoyed a wide reach as the de facto "

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" in Northern California, with distribution along the Central Coast, the Central Valley, and even as far as

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, Hawaii. There was little competition in the Bay Area suburbs and other areas that the newspaper served, but as Knight-Ridder consolidated the ''

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'' in 1975; purchased the ''Contra Costa Times'' (now ''

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'') in 1995; and as the Denver-based Media News Group made a rapid purchase of the remaining newspapers on the East Bay by 1985, the ''Chronicle'' realized it had to step up its suburban coverage. The ''Chronicle'' launched five zoned sections to appear in the Friday edition of the paper. The sections covered San Francisco and four different suburban areas. They each featured a unique columnist, enterprise pieces, and local news specific to the community. The newspaper added 40 full-time staff positions to work in the suburban bureaus. Despite the push to focus on suburban coverage, the ''Chronicle'' was hamstrung by the Sunday edition, which, being produced by the San Francisco-centric "un-''Chronicle''" ''Examiner'', had none of the focus on the suburban communities that the ''Chronicle'' was striving to cultivate.

Sale to Hearst

The de Young family controlled the paper, via the

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, until July 27, 2000, when it was sold to Hearst Communications, Inc., which owned the ''Examiner''. Following the sale, the Hearst Corporation transferred the ''Examiner'' to the Fang family, publisher of the ''

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'' and '' AsianWeek'', along with a $66-million subsidy. Under the new owners, the ''Examiner'' became a free

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, leaving the ''Chronicle'' as the only daily

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newspaper in San Francisco. In 1949, the de Young family founded

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(Channel 4), the Bay Area's third television station. Until the mid-1960s, the station (along with KRON-FM), operated from the basement of the ''Chronicle'' Building, on Mission Street. KRON moved to studios at 1001 Van Ness Avenue (on the former site of St. Mary's Cathedral, which burned down in 1962). KRON was sold to

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in 2000 and, after years of being San Francisco's

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affiliate, became an independent station on January 1, 2002, when NBC—tired of Chronicle's repeated refusal to sell KRON to the network and, later, Young's asking price for the station being too high—purchased

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in San Jose from Granite Broadcasting Corporation for $230 million. JOHNSIAS1999

Since the Hearst Corporation took ownership in 2000 the ''Chronicle'' has made periodic changes to its organization and design, but on February 1, 2009, as the newspaper began its 145th year of publication, the ''Chronicle'' Sunday edition introduced a redesigned paper featuring a modified logo, new section, and page organization, new features, bolder, colored section-front banners and new headline and text typography. The frequent bold-faced, all-capital-letter headlines typical of the ''Chronicle''s front page were eliminated. Editor Ward Bushee's note heralded the issue as the start of a "new era" for the ''Chronicle''. On July 6, 2009, the paper unveiled some alterations to the new design that included yet newer section fronts and wider use of color photographs and graphics. In a special section publisher, Frank J. Vega described new, state-of-the-art printing operations enabling the production of what he termed "A Bolder, Brighter ''Chronicle''." The newer look was accompanied by a reduction in size of the broadsheet. Such moves are similar to those made by other prominent American newspapers such as the ''

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'' and ''

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'', which in 2008 unveiled radically new designs even as changing reader demographics and general economic conditions necessitated physical reductions of the newspapers. On November 9, 2009, the ''Chronicle'' became the first newspaper in the nation to print on high-quality glossy paper. The high-gloss paper is used for some section fronts and inside pages.

Staff

The current publisher of the ''Chronicle'' is Bill Nagel.

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was named editor-in-chief in January 2015 and was the first woman to hold the position. In June 2020 she left to be the editor-in-chief of WNYC, New York City. In August 2020, Hearst named Emilio Garcia-Ruiz the publication's editor in chief.

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has written for ''

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''.

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is a journalist and columnist. Tom Stienstra is a columnist.

Web

The newspaper's websites are at SFGate.com (free) and SFChronicle.com (premium). Originally ''The Gate'',

was one of the earliest major market newspaper websites to be launched, on November 3, 1994, at the time of

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strike; the union published its own news website, ''San Francisco Free Press'', whose staff joined

when the strike ended. SFChronicle.com launched in 2013 and since 2019 has been run separately from

, whose staff are independent of the print newspaper. across all platforms the Chronicle has 34 million unique visitors each month, with

receiving 135.9 million pageviews and 25.1 million unique visitors per month and SFChronicle.com 31.3 million pageviews and 31.3 million unique visitors per month globally.

Praise, criticism, and features

The paper has received the

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on a number of occasions. Despite an illustrious and long history, the paper's news reportage is not as extensive as in the past. The current day ''Chronicle'' has followed the trend of other American newspapers, devoting increasing attention to local and regional news and cultural and entertainment criticism to the detriment of the paper's traditionally strong national and international reporting, though the paper does maintain a Washington, D.C., bureau. This increased focus on local news is a response to the competition from other Bay Area newspapers including the resurrected ''

'', the ''

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'', the ''East Bay Times'' (formerly ''Contra Costa Times'') and the ''

''. Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada received the 2004 George Polk Award for Sports Reporting. Fainaru-Wada and Williams were recognized for their work on uncovering the

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scandal, which linked

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star

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to performance-enhancing drugs. While the two above-named reporters broke the news, they are by no means the only sports writers of note at the ''Chronicle''. The ''Chronicle''s sports section, edited by Al Saracevic and called ''Sporting Green'' as it is printed on green-tinted pages, is staffed by a dozen writers. The section's best-known writers are its columnists: Bruce Jenkins, Ann Killion, Scott Ostler, Saracevic and Tom Stienstra. Its baseball coverage is anchored by Henry Schulman, John Shea, and

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, the first female president of the

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(BBWAA). The ''Chronicle's'' Sunday arts and entertainment insert section is called ''Datebook'', and has for decades been printed on pink-tinted paper in a tabloid format. Movie reviews (for many years written by nationally known critic

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) feature a unique rating system: instead of stars or a "thumbs up" system, the ''Chronicle'' has for decades used a small cartoon icon, sitting in a movie theater seat, known as the "Little Man," explained in 2008 by the ''

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'' film critic

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: "...the only rating system that makes any sense is the Little Man of the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', who is seen (1) jumping out of his seat and applauding wildly; (2) sitting up happily and applauding; (3) sitting attentively; (4) asleep in his seat; or (5) gone from his seat." Another area of note is the architecture column by John King; the ''Chronicle'' is still one of the few American papers to present a regular column on architectural issues. The paper also has regular weekly sections devoted to Food & Home and Style.

Challenges

Circulation has fallen sharply since the dot-com boom peaked from around 1997 to 2001. The ''Chronicle''s daily readership dropped by 16.6% between 2004 and 2005 to 400,906; The ''Chronicle'' fired one quarter of its newsroom staff in a cost-cutting move in May 2007. Newspaper executives pointed to growth of SFGate, the online website with 5.2 million unique visitors per month – fifth among U.S. newspaper websites in 2007. In February 2009, Hearst chief executive Frank A. Bennack Jr., and Hearst President Steven R. Swartz, announced that the ''Chronicle'' had lost money every year since 2001 and more than $50 million in 2008. Without major concessions from employees and other cuts, Hearst would put the papers up for sale and, if no buyer was found, shut the paper. San Francisco would have become the first major American city without a daily newspaper. The cuts were made. In spite of – or perhaps because of – the threats, the loss of readers and advertisers accelerated. On October 26, 2009, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported that the ''Chronicle'' had suffered a 25.8% drop in circulation for the six-month period ending September 2009, to 251,782 subscribers, the largest percentage drop in circulation of any major newspaper in the United States. ''Chronicle'' publisher Frank Vega said the drop was expected as the paper moved to earn more from higher subscription fees from fewer readers. In May 2013, Vega retired and was replaced as publisher by former ''

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'' publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson. SFGate, the main digital portal for the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', registered 19 million unique visitors in January 2015, making it the seventh-ranked newspaper website in the United States.

Publishers

, 1865–1925 * George T. Cameron, 1925–1955 * Charles de Young Thieriot, 1955–1977 * Richard Tobin Thieriot, 1977–1993 * John Sias, 1993–1999. (First publisher not to be a member of the de Young/Cameron/Thieriot family) * John Oppedahl, 2000-2003 * Steven Falk, 2003–2004 * Frank Vega, 2004–2013 * Jeffrey M. Johnson, 2013–2018 * Bill Nagel, 2018–present

References

External links

*
SFGate: Online version of the newspaper
contains freely searchable archive of all articles since 1995

, contains instructions on searching archived papers 1865–1922

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