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 The San Francisco Chronicle's front page, April 22, 1906 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Hearst Communications |
| Publisher | Bill Nagel |
| Founded | January 16, 1865 |
| Headquarters | 901 Mission Street San Francisco, California 94103 |
| Circulation | 246,592 Sunday circulation
226,860 avg. Mon-Fri circulation Source: Alliance for Audited Media, 6 mos. ended September 30, 2022 |
| ISSN | 1932-8672 (print) 2574-5921 (web) |
| OCLC number | 8812614 |
| Website | sfchronicle sfgate |
The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[1] The paper is 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.
The paper benefited from the growth of San Francisco and had the largest newspaper circulation on the West Coast of the United States 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.[2]
In 1994, the newspaper launched the SFGATE website, with a soft launch in March and an official launch on 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 a Pulitzer Prize for Mark Fiore's political cartoons.[3]
In 2013, the newspaper launched its own namesake website, SFChronicle.com, and began the separation of SFGATE and the Chronicle brands, which today are two separately run entities.
- ^ Nolte, Carl (June 16, 1999). "134 Years of the Chronicle". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on May 21, 2012. Retrieved September 21, 2006.
- ^ Turvill, William (August 25, 2021). "Top 25 US newspapers by circulation: America's largest titles have lost 20% of print sales since Covid-19 hit". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on June 23, 2022. Retrieved June 23, 2022.
- ^ "Pulitzer Prize for Mark Fiore's political cartoons". Archived from the original on June 30, 2022. Retrieved June 30, 2022.