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The San Francisco Examiner is a newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California, and published since 1863.. Once self-dubbed the "Monarch of the Dailies" by then-owner William Randolph Hearst, and flagship of the Hearst Corporation chain, the Examiner converted to free distribution early in the 21st century and is owned by Clint Reilly Communications, which bought the newspaper ...
William Randolph Hearst Sr. ( / hɜːrst /; [1] April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper publisher, and politician who developed the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His flamboyant methods of yellow journalism influenced the nation's popular media by emphasizing sensationalism and ...
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.
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 is the successor of The San Francisco Examiner Magazine, Image Magazine, and California Living Magazine. The staff of the Chronicle and the Examiner were combined in 2000 ...
Hearst Corporation, the parent company of the Examiner, bought the San Francisco Chronicle in 2000. The Chronicle was the other major daily paper for the San Francisco Bay Area. Hearst already owned the Examiner and chose to merge the two newsrooms. Bronstein became senior vice president and executive editor of the Chronicle in November 2000.
Publication and reception. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" was first published in the July 13, 1890, issue of The San Francisco Examiner and collected in the compilation Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891). Editors of a modern compilation described the story as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American ...
Starting on November 1, 1994, some 2,600 reporters, editors, drivers, press operators and paper handlers of the San Francisco Chronicle and The San Francisco Examiner walked off the job. The strike turned violent. Bricks were thrown through paper carriers' windshields as they drove from the newspaper distribution center, and one non-union ...
Newspaper Row began when the Chronicle Building, the first steel-framed building the Western United States, was constructed. It was the tallest building in San Francisco upon completion in 1889. William Randolph Hearst, the owner of The San Francisco Examiner, purchased a nearby lot, where he intended to build a taller building.