San Francisco Chronicle
| San Francisco Chronicle | |
|---|---|
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| description | daily newspaper |
| First edition | 1865 |
| Sold edition | 170,084 copies |
| (Mon-Sat; Sundays: 220.061; 2019) | |
| Range | 0.46 million readers |
| (Mon-Sat; Sundays: 0.6; 2019) | |
| Editor-in-chief | Audrey Cooper |
| editor | Bill Nagel |
| Web link | sfchronicle.com |
| ISSN (print) | 1932-8672 |
The San Francisco Chronicle newspaper was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by the brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young . The circulation of the newspaper grew steadily in line with the size of San Francisco and has been Northern California's largest circulation newspaper since 1880. The newspaper is largely read in the San Francisco Bay Area , although it is available throughout Northern California. The circulation is currently around 170,084 copies per day and 220,061 copies of the Sunday edition. The newspaper has won several Pulitzer prizes .
The newspaper operates two websites: SFGate with current, typical Internet news and sfchronicle , which reproduces more of the news from the print medium.
history
Between the Second World War and 1965, the circulation grew thanks to new columnists such as Pauline Phillips and Herb Caen , so that the newspaper was able to overtake its biggest competitor, the San Francisco Examiner . This tradition continued, so in the 1970s, among others, Rolling Stone founding member Ralph J. Gleason and writer Armistead Maupin wrote regularly for the Chronicle . Randy Shilts also worked for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1981 . Shilts is considered to be the first openly gay journalist in the American mainstream press to write on gay topics. The De Young family controlled the newspaper through Chronicle Publishing Company until July 27, 2000, when the newspaper was sold to Hearst Communications, Inc. for $ 660 million .
For 2008 the newspaper showed a loss of 50 million US dollars and was on the verge of going under in February 2009. The owner then called on the trade unions to help redevelop the building. At that time the newspaper had 1,500 employees, 275 of whom were editors.
Web links
- Online version of the San Francisco Chronicle
- Newspaper Death Watch (From March 2007 to December 2009, at least eleven major city newspapers ceased printing .)
swell
- ↑ a b c Hearst Bay Area - Media Kit 2019. (PDF; 4.6MB) p. 5 , accessed on September 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Roland Lindner, Carsten Knop: The "Chronicle" before the downfall. In: FAZ . February 26, 2009. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .