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Articles tagged San Francisco Chronicle (33)

“My job is to take the money this company gives me to operate the newsroom, and do the best possible job I can of telling stories of the San Francisco Bay Area and northern California.”
Bidders are preparing their final bids for a hodgepodge collection of small and large newspapers from coast to coast. Will another company — or private equity — swoop them all up as one?
The San Francisco Chronicle has embarked on a new membership program aimed at increasing reader loyalty, and the renewal rate.
The lesson now dawning on publishers worldwide is that their reliance on advertising as the major support of their news businesses is all but over.
Plus: The San Francisco Chronicle backtracks on its paywall, layoffs at Patch, the coming arrival of Al Jazeera America, and the rest of the week’s news in journalism and the web.
Plus: Flipboard’s big edit-your-own-magazine overhaul, the future of RSS, U.S. government secrecy, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.
The alt weekly, one of the nation’s best, announced its closure Thursday after nearly 50 years of publishing.
Plus: Parsing The New York Times’ paywall figures, a big nonprofit news merger in the Bay Area, and all the rest of this week’s news in media and tech.
In the Bay Area, in Los Angeles, in San Diego — the traditional boundaries of California journalism are shifting fast. Ken Doctor