San Francisco will be getting upgrades to the city’s free Wi-Fi service in time for the upcoming Super Bowl, the mayor’s office announced today. The…
International pop star Justin Bieber and his record label are under fire from San Francisco’s city attorney for their guerilla marketing campaign, which includes illegal…
The National Transportation Safety Board has issued an apology this evening for mistakenly confirming “inaccurate and offensive” names for the pilots of Asiana Airlines Flight…
Hot on the heels of the San Francisco Newspaper Company’s acquisition of the SF Weekly, two principals at the SFNC are within days of closing…
Our last day together! I think we can safely declare this experiment a bust. Here’s a summary of my week. Number of articles read on…
That’s a picture wrap on @driverminnie #aboutaboy say.ly/wCz5sDh — Jon Favreau (@Jon_Favreau) March 27, 2013 Crews were filming the pilot for a TV series starring…
These posts slogging through the Chronicle paywall are starting to take on the doomed air of Heart of Darkness, aren’t they? I feel like at…
Though Lech Walesa was once so beloved by San Francisco that was named a street after him. that love came to an end when he…
Two days after members of the San Francisco Chronicle Media Workers Guild mounted a social media campaign against an increase in health care costs, union…
Monday, March 26 I feel bad, everyone. I really do want to like the SFChronicle.com site! I ended up reading the digital paper on my…
As previously reported, the SF Chronicle has launched a plan to put some of its content behind a paywall. Appeal readers have many thoughts about…
I haven’t subscribed to the Chronicle since 2008, after they made a number of editorial decisions I vehemently disagreed with as a reader. I didn’t…
It’s been rumored and discussed for years, and now it’s happening — the SF Chronicle, at least parts of it, is now behind a paywall….
The interwebs can be an awkward place. It used to be on the internet, no one knew you were a dog, but now someone can,…
In this week’s Cocktailian column, SF Chronicle contrib Gary Regan presents an interesting challenge: citing bartenders in NY who are creating nabe-reflecting drinks (The Bronx…
Sit-Lie Nevius was to speak at Sit-Lie-Loving Coalition for Responsible Growth Fundraising Dinner Few would accuse San Francisco’s political columnists of objectivity: scribes like the…
Oh, jeez, I hate to be that guy — and by that guy, I mean the guy who comments “that’s not the Haight, that’s the…
The Appeal has been told by several sources that James Pimentel, Executive Editor of the SF Examiner, resigned last Friday, and that editorial staff was…
Gawker points us in the direction of a rather odd job posting on the Berkeley J-School job board (whoops, looks like it’s been removed!). Posted…
I felt a little nervous about returning to the Bay Citizen office Thursday afternoon. Just a few days earlier, I’d written a decidedly un-gentle analysis…
I know I’m not the only one who suddenly and nonconsentually got an “SFGate Biztek Newsletter” earlier this afternoon. I know this because I got…
Does Craigslist have the power to revive the industry many think they once carelessly destroyed? The blue/grey/white site where you can find, well, pretty much…
Boy oh boy, the Bay Citizen sure has put online writers in an interesting position. Here’s the abbreviated version: BC is a non-profit news startup,…
Paidcontent.org is reporting that Gothamist Media, which owns city-focused sites like our own SFist (which you probably already know that I used to write for,…
They really are fighting over something that is a dead issue now. Because the model of journalism that these guys are fighting over is in…
As you might recall, the Chron recently announced that, in an effort “to provide a better reading experience for Sunday print subscribers and to differentiate…
As you might recall, the recently Chron announced that, in an effort “to provide a better reading experience for Sunday print subscribers and to differentiate…
We hope that the (seemingly reluctant to be actually blogging) bloggers who bemoan the prospect of a new media era* take heart in these two…
Our good friend Violet Blue might not have responded to SF Weekly’s email asking why she left her freelance position as the Chron/SFGate’s resident sex…
Despite the many innovations of San Francisco 2010, a lot of public data is still hard to access, siloed within individual city departments and time-consuming…
As you know, the Chronicle tells you that their Sunday paper contains print only content that appears on SFGate on the following Tuesday. On Sunday,…
As you might recall, the recently Chron announced that, in an effort “to provide a better reading experience for Sunday print subscribers and to differentiate…
One of the boys of SF Weekly sounds a bit envious today at the announcement that Eater SF‘s Paolo Lucchesi would be leaving blogistan for…
When Jonathan Weber took the job of editor-in-chief of the Bay Area News Project a few weeks ago, 200 resumes lay waiting for him. I’m…
Shortly after Supervisor Chris Daly’s Facebook update heard across SF, Examiner columnist Ken Garcia made the following pledge: Daly will get no space in my…
As you might recall, the recently Chron announced that, in an effort “to provide a better reading experience for Sunday print subscribers and to differentiate…
It’s no media secret that, at least when compared to print, significant revenue from online advertising continue to elude a lot of the MSM, and…
The AP’s reporting that the SF Chronicle will begin printing some of their pages on glossy paper on Monday “to better serve readers and advertisers.”…
So you know: this is super inside media baseball and might be boring to a lot of folks. So, sorry! You have been warned. If…
In a memo sent to the SF Chronicle’s Metro staff on Friday, Metro Section Editor Audrey Cooper took a sharply defensive stance against what she,…
