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Query: When was the San Francisco Chronicle first published?
The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. It was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[2] The paper is currently owned by the Hearst Corporation, 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.
Tully joined the San Francisco Newspaper Agency in 1975 (publisher of the "San Francisco Chronicle" and "The San Francisco Examiner") as president and general manager. In 1978 he joined Central Newspapers, Inc. as vice-president, publisher and general manager of the "Arizona Republic" and the "Phoenix Gazette" (Phoenix, Arizona). In 1986 he joined Wick Communications, Inc. (Sierra Vista, Arizona) and was involved in newspaper operations in North Dakota, Montana, California and Arizona. He became president, publisher and CEO of Beacon Communications, Inc. (a division of the Chronicle Publishing Company) in 1991 and was responsible for the operations of thirteen daily and weekly newspapers in New England. After participating in negotiations for the sale of Beacon to Fidelity Capital, he remained as a consultant to the Chronicle Publishing Company for several years and became a consultant to the Maritz Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri.
In San Francisco, de Young and his brother, Charles de Young (1846–1880), founded the "Daily Dramatic Chronicle" newspaper, first published on January 17, 1865, with the loan of a twenty dollar gold piece which Michael received from his landlord. A third brother, Gustavus, whose initial originally appeared in the masthead ("G. and C. de Young"), later vanished. The "Daily Dramatic Chronicle" was a four page tabloid that was freely distributed throughout San Francisco. According to the de Youngs, the "Daily Dramatic Chronicle" would be “the best advertising medium on the Pacific Coast.” On September 1, 1868, the de Youngs expanded their tabloid into a daily newspaper. The first issue stated that the Chronicle would be "independent in all things, neutral in none." The "Daily Dramatic Chronicle" was sold under the condition that it be renamed the "Dramatic Review". De Young was also the director of the Associated Press for many years.
Newspaper Row referred to the intersections of Market Street, Kearny Street, Third Street and Geary Street, where three of San Francisco's largest daily newspapers were headquartered. By 1902, "The San Francisco Call", "The San Francisco Examiner" and the "San Francisco Chronicle" were in buildings on the corner, with the "Chronicle" in the Chronicle Building, the "Call" in the Spreckels Building and the "Examiner" in the Examiner building. The row became known as the "Times Square of the West". It was partially destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco Fire. The "Call" and "Examiner" buildings were slowly gutted over two hours, and the "Chronicle"s building was similarly destroyed. The three newspapers published a combined issue from the office of the Oakland Tribune.
The online versions of the newspaper are at SFGate.com (free) and SFChronicle.com (premium).[11] As well as publishing the San Francisco Chronicle online, SFGate and SFChronicle.com add other features not available in the print version, such as blogs and podcasts. SFGate was one of the earliest major market newspaper websites to be launched, having done so in 1994, at the time of The Newspaper Guild strike; meanwhile the union published its own news website, San Francisco Free Press.[12] SFGate is the fifth largest newspaper website in America with over 33 million unique visitors each month.
He was 18 years old when he landed a job as a sports cartoonist with the "San Francisco Bulletin". He also contributed to the "San Francisco Chronicle", the "San Francisco Post" and the "Oakland Herald". His first comic strip, "Daffy Dan", about a baseball player, was published in the "Post".
For 35 years starting in 1965, the "San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner" operated under a Joint Operating Agreement whereby the "Chronicle" published a morning paper and the "Examiner" published in the afternoon. The "Examiner" published the Sunday paper's news sections and glossy magazine, and the "Chronicle" contributed the features. Circulation was approximately 100,000 on weekdays and 500,000 on Sundays. By 1995, discussion was already brewing in print media about the possible shuttering of the "Examiner" due to low circulation and an extremely disadvantageous revenue sharing agreement for the "Chronicle".
San Francisco Review of Books (SFRB) was a book review periodical published from the mid-1970s to 1997 in the Bay Area. Founding editor-publisher Ronald Nowicki launched his publication April 1975, a time when the "San Francisco Chronicle" depended on the wire services for its reviews. "SFRB" began as a magazine and later adopted a tabloid format.
San Francisco's first skyscraper was the Chronicle Building, which was completed in 1890. M. H. de Young, owner of the "San Francisco Chronicle", commissioned Burnham and Root to design a signature tower to convey the power of his newspaper. Not to be outdone, de Young's rival, industrialist Claus Spreckels, purchased the "San Francisco Call" in 1895 and commissioned a tower of his own that would dwarf the Chronicle Building. The Call Building was completed in 1898 and stood across Market Street from the Chronicle Building. The Call Building (later named the Spreckels Building, and Central Tower today) would remain the city's tallest for nearly a quarter century.
With the diversification of interests in the 1960s, the corporation owning the "Chronicle" was spun off into its own unit as Chronicle Publishing to signify a diversification of its interests outside of San Francisco. The second century of the company began in 1965 with the "Chronicle" entering a joint operating agreement with the rival "The San Francisco Examiner" in which the "Chronicle" would publish in the mornings while "The Examiner" published in the afternoons.
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Larson decided that he could increase his income from cartooning by selling his "Nature's Way" strip to another newspaper. While on vacation in San Francisco, he pitched his work to the "San Francisco Chronicle" and, to his surprise, the "Chronicle" bought the strip and promoted it for syndication, renaming it "The Far Side". Its first appearance in the "Chronicle" was on January 1, 1980. A week later, "The Seattle Times" dropped "Nature's Way." "The Far Side" ran for fifteen years, syndicated initially by Chronicle Features and later by Universal Press Syndicate, until Larson retired with his final strip published on January 1, 1995.
Noted journalists, writers, cartoonists and publishers have passed through San Francisco's media world, including: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 "San Francisco Examiner", the "San Francisco Chronicle" and the Scripps-Howard-owned "Daily News". The weeklies included the "Wasp", the "Argonaut", the "Labor Clarion", the "Coast Seamen's Journal", "Emanu-el", "Liberator" and the "News Letter".
Prior to the creation of the magazine, the first issue of which appeared Sunday, November 26, 2000, readers of the "San Francisco Chronicle" and "The San Francisco Examiner" were served by "The San Francisco Examiner Magazine", included in the Sunday edition of the papers which were produced jointly under the JOA that the two papers operated under. "The San Francisco Examiner Magazine" was preceded by "Image Magazine", which was in turn preceded by "California Living Magazine".
The "San Francisco Chronicle" was the first newspaper in the country to introduce a Sunday magazine when it did so in 1869 with the aim of providing a "literary dimension" to the newspaper. That magazine, however, ended sometime prior to the Chronicle's absorption of the "Examiner" staff and the creation of the current "San Francisco Chronicle Magazine".
In addition to being used by some right-wing pundits, the term has appeared in and around San Francisco itself. The "San Francisco Chronicle", San Francisco's largest daily newspaper, discussed the term in its 2006 article, "Three Dirty Words: San Francisco Values." The next week, the "San Francisco Bay Guardian" responded with a similarly titled article, "San Francisco Values," calling the Chronicle's editorial positions into question.
James King of William 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.
The "San Francisco Foghorn" is the official student weekly newspaper and is sponsored by ASUSF. The "Foghorn" was founded in 1903, and was first called "The Ignatian". In the 1930s when the college name was changed, the newspaper became the "San Francisco Foghorn." The "Foghorn" has played a significant role on campus throughout the years, and has some notable alumni: Pierre Salinger, editor of the "San Francisco Chronicle" and Press Secretary for President John F. Kennedy; well-known author and historian Kevin Starr; and Leo T. McCarthy, former California Lieutenant Governor. In 1961 the "Foghorn" received the American Newspaper Publishers Association "Pacemaker Award". In 1998 Associated Collegiate Press named it "College Paper of the Year".
Selvin was born in Berkeley, California. He has stated that he failed to graduate with his Berkeley High School class of 1967. He moved to San Francisco and was hired as a copy boy at the "San Francisco Chronicle". Selvin soon wangled a backstage pass for a show at The Fillmore and submitted his first piece to the "Chronicle's" Sunday Datebook in 1969. Selvin left the "Chronicle" for a brief, unsuccessful effort in undergraduate studies at the University of California, Riverside where he wrote for the school paper. Returning to San Francisco, he wrote a review of "First Step" by the Faces for "Rolling Stone", published in May 1970.
The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine is a Sunday magazine published on the first Sunday of every month as an insert in the "San Francisco Chronicle". The current magazine was born out of the ashes of "The San Francisco Examiner Magazine" when the staff of the "Chronicle" and "The San Francisco Examiner" were combined in 2000 following the sale of the "Examiner".
In San Francisco, public opposition to freeways dates to 1955, when the "San Francisco Chronicle" published a map of proposed routes. Construction of the elevated Embarcadero Freeway along the downtown waterfront also helped to organize the opposition, articulated by architecture critic Allan Temko, who began writing for the "Chronicle" in 1961. The 1955 San Francisco Trafficways Plan included the following routes that were never completed:The 1960 Trafficways Plan deleted several of these routes but added another:In 1959, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to cancel seven of ten planned freeways, including an extension of the Central Freeway. In 1964, protests against a freeway through the Panhandle and Golden Gate Park led to its cancellation, and in 1966 the Board of Supervisors rejected an extension of the Embarcadero Freeway to the Golden Gate Bridge.
The de Young family controlled the paper, via the Chronicle Publishing Company, 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 San Francisco Independent and AsianWeek, along with a $66-million subsidy.[7] Under the new owners, the Examiner became a free tabloid, leaving the Chronicle as the only daily broadsheet newspaper in San Francisco.
When the Hearst Corporation, owner of the "Examiner", bought the "Chronicle" in 2000, it sold the "Examiner" and offered positions at the "Chronicle" to all "Examiner" staff members. "The Examiner Magazine" was discontinued by the new owners of the newspaper, and the staff migrated the "Chronicle", creating the new "San Francisco Chronicle Magazine". In a letter to readers of the new magazine, the editors wrote, "Now that the... staffs have merged, we plan to deliver an even better Sunday Magazine, larger in scope and full of new material, as part of the ongoing changes that will make the "Chronicle" a truly great regional newspaper," the editors' note continued, "We welcome you to the new "San Francisco Chronicle Magazine", and promise to do our level best to deliver literate, exciting and visually attractive journalism."
The Chronicle Publishing Company was a print and broadcast media corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California that was in operation from 1865 until 2000. Owned for the whole of its existence by the de Young family, CPC was most notable for owning the namesake "San Francisco Chronicle" newspaper and KRON-TV, the longtime National Broadcasting Company (NBC) affiliate in the San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose) television media market.
In 1890, M. H. de Young, owner of the "San Francisco Chronicle", built San Francisco's first skyscraper, the Chronicle Building, to house his newspaper. In response, John D. Spreckels and his father Claus Spreckels purchased the "San Francisco Call" in 1895 and commissioned a tower of their own that would dwarf the Chronicle Building. In September 1895, "The Call" wrote: