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| Jun. 25 |
Oakland Downtown |
101-year-old newsstand to close 
We have to close,' said 91-year-old proprietor Charles De Lauer whose father started the enterprise selling papers from small wagons in 1907
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| May.15 |
San Francisco |
CBS in $1.8B deal for info site Cnet Media and entertainment company is buying CNet Networks Inc., an online news and information provider
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| May.9 |
San Francisco |
Judge To Likely Raise SF Weekly Damages
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| Apr.28 |
SF Chronicle |
New chief at SFGate
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| Mar.26 |
Los Gatos |
Netflix Offers Rebate
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| Mar.25 |
San Francisco |
Iconic ad man Hal Riney dies The advertising man whose memorable work helped establish the city as an important creative center for the industry died of cancer at 75
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| Mar.24 |
Google |
Google Wants TV 'White Space' for Wi-Fi
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| Mar.7 |
SJ Mercury News |
Mercury News Lays Off 34 The San Jose Mercury News laid off 15 newsroom staffers and lost 5 other editors through buyouts, shaving the editorial staff by 10%
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| Mar.5 |
San Francisco |
Jury sides with Guardian| A jury awarded up to $15 million in damages to the Bay Guardian alternative weekly newspaper, to be paid by SF Weekly, its competitor | |
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| Mar.1 |
San Francisco |
Jury gets Guardian's turf battle
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Bankruptcy for Sharper Image
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| Feb.19 |
SJ Mercury News |
Papers seek buyouts to cut costs The company that operates SJ Mercury News, Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times may resort to layoffs
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| Jan.25 |
SF Chronicle |
Bushee New Chronicle Editor Ward H. Bushee has been named executive vice president and editor of The SF Chronicle, the Hearst Corp. said
| Bushee, 58, a second-generation journalist, is editor and vice president of the Arizona Republic in Phoenix since 2002
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| Jan.23 |
SF Chronicle |
New job for editor Bronstein| Chronicle Editor is leaving his post to assume a broader role in the newspaper division of the Hearst Corp., which owns The Chronicle | | |
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| Jan.10 |
San Francisco |
Young Broadcasting to sell KRON-TV KRON-TV may be sold for the second time in 8 years. Young Broadcasting has received a 'high level of interest' in the station
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| Jan.3 |
SJ Mercury News |
MediaNews VP David Butler named editor
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| Jan.2 |
Los Gatos |
Netflix To Stream Movies Directly To TV's |
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SF Chronicle |
Stock tables moving to Web site
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| Dec.22 |
Barry Bonds |
Bonds Saga 'Sports Story Of The Year'
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| Dec.7 |
Santa Clara |
Macrovision Snags TV Guide
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| Oct.9 |
HP |
Fiorina Joins New Fox Business Channel
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| Aug.14 |
SJ Mercury News |
New Publisher Named |
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World markets fall after US losses
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| Aug.8 |
Google |
Feature to let news subjects respond
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| Jul.21 |
San Francisco |
Journalist Pete Wilson Dies At 62| The award-winning broadcast journalist who co-anchored the evening news at the KGO-TV, died of a massive heart attack during a surgery | |
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| Jun.19 |
SJ Mercury News |
Paper To Cut 17% Of News Staff
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| Jun.14 |
Barry Bonds |
Networks to Expand Home Run Coverage |
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| May.29 |
SF Chronicle |
Managing editor to leave paper |
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| May.19 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle to cut 25% of jobs in newsroom 80 reporters, photographers, copy editors, as well as 20 employees in management positions are expected to be laid off by end of the summer
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| Apr.25 |
San Francisco |
Hearst, MediaNews settle antitrust suit
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| Apr.17 |
Yahoo |
Partnership with newspaper consortium |
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| Apr.6 |
Google |
Agence France-Presse, Google Settle Suit
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British captives shown on Iranian TV
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| Mar.25 |
San Francisco |
Winners honored in Press contest
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| Mar.23 |
BART |
BART Wants TV For Rider Updates
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| Feb.2 |
SF Chronicle |
Hearst Considered Chronicle Sale
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| Dec.7 |
Google |
Google Begins Test Of Radio Ads |
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| Dec.6 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle, MediaNews plan ad sales |
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| Oct.20 |
SJ Mercury News |
Mercury News to lay off 101 employees |
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| Sep.25 |
San Francisco |
Internet TV Channel Debuts |
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| Jul.31 |
SJ Mercury News |
Justice Dept. Clears Merc News Sale |
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| Jul.28 |
SJ Mercury News |
Merc, CoCo Times sale clears court hurdle |
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| May.3 |
San Francisco |
Free Daily Newspaper Launched |
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| Apr.26 |
SJ Mercury News |
MediaNews to buy Merc, CoCo Times Denver's group agreed to buy the SJ Mercury News and the Contra Costa Times as well as 2 other newspapers
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Oil breaks through record $75
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| Apr.20 |
SJ Mercury News |
Media Mogul To Acquire Newspapers |
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| Mar.13 |
SJ Mercury News |
McClatchy to sell San Jose, CCC papers
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San Jose |
McClatchy to Buy Knight Ridder for $4.5B| The second-largest U.S. newspaper publisher will also assume about $2 billion in Knight Ridder's debt. 2nd largest takeover in U.S. newspaper history topped only by the Tribune $6.5 billion acquisition of Times Mirror Co.
McClatchy's 32 newspapers would be 2nd nationwi... | |
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| Jan.23 |
San Jose |
AtomFilms To Launch Online Studio |
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| Jan.17 |
San Francisco |
Buffett buys Business Wire |
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Media magnate Kerry Packer dies
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| Dec.5 |
Lafayette |
TV Anchor Doug Murphy Dies In Fire A beloved Bay Area anchor has died after fire engulfed his home. He was an anchor and reporter at KPIX
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| Nov.15 |
San Jose |
Knight Ridder Considers Sale Of Company |
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| Oct.19 |
Lafayette |
Attorney Does Numerous TV Interviews |
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| Oct.18 |
Sausalito |
Longtime Sports Announcer Bill King Dies The longtime voice of the A's, died overnight after complications from surgery. He was 78 years old
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| Sep.1 |
Google |
Google selling print ads |
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| Jul.25 |
SF Chronicle |
Paper, employees reached tentative deal
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New Harry Potter book hits shops
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| Jun.8 |
Google |
$80bn Google takes top media spot
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| May.11 |
Oakland |
Knight Ridder starts East Bay Daily News |
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| Apr.4 |
San Francisco |
Al Gore Launches New TV Channel |
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| Nov.12 |
Redwood City |
Local papers rush out banner after verdict |
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| Oct.29 |
San Jose |
Station switches to Spanish programming |
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| Feb.19 |
San Francisco |
Billionaire Anschutz buys SF Examiner The new managers promised a 'seismic shift in Bay Area journalism'. Anschutz is paying $20 million
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| Jan.30 |
Redwood City |
$51,000 for spot next to Peterson trial San Mateo County charges $51,000 television stations seeking a spot outside the County courthouse
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| Oct.20 |
Oakland |
KTVU's Fancher died from breast cancer
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| Oct.10 |
San Francisco |
Examiner COO Douglas Fang dies at 38 |
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| Oct.9 |
San Francisco |
Salon Media CEO leaves the company |
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| Sep.26 |
SJ Mercury News |
Knight Ridder names new publisher |
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| Jul.10 |
San Francisco |
KQED plans severe cuts |
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| May.14 |
San Francisco |
Ex-Red Herring editor to launch magazine |
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| May.1 |
Oakland |
ANG Newspapers lays off 49 employees |
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| Mar.18 |
SF Chronicle |
Possible job cuts discussed |
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| Mar.12 |
SJ Mercury News |
David Yarnold named editor |
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| Mar.3 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle replaces publisher |
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| Feb.28 |
San Francisco |
Red Herring magazine closes
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| Feb.24 |
San Francisco |
Free version of Examiner debuts |
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| Feb.21 |
San Francisco |
Examiner lays off staff; plans to be free 40 people lost their jobs. The smaller, free paper will continue with about 15 reporters, editors and photographers
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| Dec.23 |
Berkeley |
Daily Planet bought by couple |
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| Oct.16 |
San Francisco |
Anchor Joe leaving KNTV
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| Oct.8 |
San Francisco |
Upside magazine folds |
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| Sep.3 |
Napster |
Bankruptcy judge blocks sale of Napster |
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| Aug.26 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle to close PM Edition |
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Dow saw its second-biggest gain ever
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| Apr.4 |
San Francisco |
Examiner dropping Sunday edition |
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| Mar.4 |
San Francisco |
Examiner mulls plan to become tabloid |
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| Mar.3 |
Napa |
Napa Valley Register publisher resigns |
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| Feb.28 |
Pleasanton |
John Madden Moves to ABC
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| Feb.11 |
SF Chronicle |
Roberts steps down as managing editor |
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| Jan.11 |
San Francisco |
Examiner fires editor in chief |
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| Dec.20 |
San Francisco |
Sex columnist dumped at Guardian |
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| Dec.17 |
San Jose |
NBC gets KNTV for $230M |
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| Nov.27 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle to cut 220 jobs
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| Oct.26 |
San Francisco |
Ted Fang fired as Examiner editor |
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| Jul.20 |
SF Chronicle |
SF Chronicle editor resigns |
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| Jun.7 |
Brisbane |
AOL buying Business 2.0 magazine |
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| May.20 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle selects 5 new editors |
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| Apr.29 |
SF Chronicle |
Sunday Chronicle freshens design |
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| Apr.24 |
San Jose |
CEO spars with shareholders |
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PG&E files for bankruptcy
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| Mar.27 |
SJ Mercury News |
New publisher of SJ Mercury News |
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| Mar.19 |
SJ Mercury News |
SJ Mercury News publisher resigns |
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| Dec.23 |
San Francisco |
Examiner managing editor fired |
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| Dec.11 |
San Francisco |
Examiner's exec. editor resigns |
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| Nov.29 |
San Francisco |
4 channel's Suzanne said goodbye |
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| Nov.21 |
San Francisco |
Examiner ends after 113 years 220 San Francisco Examiner workers faced a new era
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| Nov.19 |
San Francisco |
Labor leaders meet SF Examiner |
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| Nov.16 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle leaders named |
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| Nov.4 |
SJ Mercury News |
SJ Mercury News pulls Sunday magazine |
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| Jul.27 |
SF Chronicle |
Judge allowed purchase SF Chronicle |
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| Jul.7 |
San Jose |
Former KGO anchor joins KNTV |
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| Jun.27 |
San Francisco |
KRON sold |
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| May.14 |
SF Chronicle |
Sale of Chronicle turns into 'nightmare' Clint Reilly's antitrust suit to stop Hearst from buying the Chronicle and selling Examiner has turned into a soap opera
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'I love you' virus disrupts computers
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| Mar.30 |
SF Chronicle |
Justice clears Chron sale to Hearst Hearst's transfer of The Examiner to the Fang family had resolved antitrust concerns about the deal
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| Mar.24 |
SF Chronicle |
Hearst, Chronicle Try to Tossed Out Suit
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| Mar.21 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle To Rename Concord Pavilion
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Nasdaq closed at 5048
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| Feb.3 |
SF Chronicle |
Columnist Art Hoppe Dies Eloquent satire skewered the pompous and powerful for over 40 years. He was 74
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| Feb.1 |
Berkeley |
Free-Lancers On Strike at Pacifica News More than 40 free-lance reporters protest censorship at the free-speech radio network
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| Jan.22 |
Oakland |
Newspaper Wins Suit |
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Y2K bug fails to bite
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