San Francisco Chronicle

The newspaper San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. The circulation of the newspaper grew in line with city size of San Francisco steadily, and since 1880 is Northern California's largest circulation newspaper. The newspaper is read mainly in the San Francisco Bay Area, although the newspaper is available throughout Northern California. The circulation is currently about 375,000 copies a day, making it the San Francisco Chronicle on place 14 of the largest circulation newspapers in the United States. The newspaper has won several Pulitzer Prizes.

History

Between World War II and 1965, the circulation grew thanks to new columnists as Pauline Phillips or Herb Caen, so that the newspaper was the largest competitor, the San Francisco Examiner overtake. This tradition continued, as written in the 1970s, among others, Rolling Stone founding member Ralph J. Gleason and writer Armistead Maupin regularly for the Chronicle. Since 1981 worked for the San Francisco Chronicle Randy Shilts. Shilts is considered the first openly gay journalist from the mainstream American press, who wrote about gay issues. The De Young family controlled via the Chronicle Publishing Company, the newspaper until 27 July 2000 when the newspaper for $ 660 million at Hearst Communications, Inc. was sold.

For 2008, the newspaper reported a loss of 50 million U.S. dollars and was in February 2009, shortly before the fall. The owner then called on the unions to take part in a reorganization. At this time the newspaper had 1,500 employees, of which 275 editors.