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| Jun.30 |
El Cerrito |
Legendary KGO anchorman, Van Amburg passes away at 86
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| Jun.26 |
Oakland |
Tim Westergren plans to step down as Pandora CEO Recode reported that the internet radio service's co-founder plans to step down. Pandora Media Inc., up 18 cents to $8.46
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| May.3 |
Facebook |
Facebook to hire 3,000 video monitors 3,000 to review videos in an effort to monitor the site for the kind of violent and disturbing videos that have plagued it in recent weeks
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| Mar.1 |
Oakland |
Oakland loses Tribune, with paper folded into new East Bay Times
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| Feb.11 |
Oakland |
Pandora CEO declines comment on sale report, shares recede |
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| Jun.8 |
South of Market |
Apple reveals new Music app to rival Spotify
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| Jun.3 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo Lands NFL’s First Internet-Only Broadcast |
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| Apr.23 |
Oakland |
Pandora reports 1Q loss but beats analyst estimates |
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| Jan.13 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle naming woman as its editor in chief |
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| Oct.14 |
San Francisco |
San Francisco Bay Guardian shuts down after 48 years The weekly newspaper, a leading progressive voice in the city, is closing for financial reasons, its publisher said
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| Aug.25 |
Napa |
Napa Valley Register produce paper amidst quake damage |
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| Sep.11 |
Oakland |
Pandora names ex-aQuantive head McAndrews as CEO Internet radio giant Pandora named the former head of digital advertising company aQuantive, Brian McAndrews, as its new chief executiv
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| Apr.30 |
Twitter |
News companies warned by Twitter
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| Oct.20 |
Google |
Brazil papers pull out of Google |
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| Jun.18 |
Oakland |
Pandora Media's market value $2.14 billion |
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| Feb.11 |
Oakland |
Pandora Media plans for an IPO Popular Internet radio company announced plans to go public and raise as much as $100 million from a stock sale
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| Jan.3 |
San Francisco |
Rival papers settle lawsuit over ad pricing
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| Nov.30 |
San Francisco |
Salon.com puts itself up for sale |
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| Apr.27 |
SF Chronicle |
Newspaper circulation slides |
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| Mar.24 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle, Bloomberg team up
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| Mar.4 |
SJ Mercury News |
MediaNews Parent's Bankruptcy Plan |
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| Oct.26 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle saw worst circulation decline
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| Oct.16 |
San Francisco |
New York Times Launches SF Edition |
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| Sep.24 |
San Francisco |
$5M investment for journalism |
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| Sep.10 |
Oracle |
Tech Giants On Charging Readers Online |
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| Sep.1 |
San Francisco |
Examiner.com buys NowPublic
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| Aug.21 |
San Francisco |
Japanese paper folding |
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| Apr.19 |
SF Chronicle |
Teamsters OK Chronicle Pact
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| Apr.18 |
San Francisco |
Rolling Stone closes last S.F. office Jann Wenner co-founded in SF the irreverent biweekly 42 years ago to cover the psychedelic rock scene and counterculture movement
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| Mar.29 |
San Francisco |
Slumping Economy Sinking Ethinc Papers |
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| Mar.9 |
SF Chronicle |
Paper reaches tentative pact with union |
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| Feb.24 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo Executive Joins Hearst |
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SF Chronicle |
Hearst wants 'significant' cuts at Chronicle| The Hearst Corp. to reverse the deepening operating losses is seeking near-term cost savings that would include 'significant' cuts to the staf | |
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| Jan.28 |
San Jose |
Paper chain's staffers to be furloughed |
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| Dec.3 |
San Francisco |
Huffington Post plans S.F. edition |
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| Sep.30 |
Walnut Creek |
B. Area News Group names new publisher
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| Sep.17 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle names Adkins as new president
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| Sep.11 |
Novato |
Award-winning weekly paper to shut down |
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| Aug.2 |
San Francisco |
Newspapers assail news-rack fee hike plan
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| Jul.16 |
YouTube |
YouTube Inks Ad Deal |
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| Jun.25 |
Oakland Downtown |
101-year-old newsstand to close |
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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 |
Netflix |
Netflix Offers Rebate |
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| Mar.25 |
San Francisco |
Iconic ad man Hal Riney dies
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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
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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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| Feb.19 |
SJ Mercury News |
Papers seek buyouts to cut costs
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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
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| Jan.3 |
SJ Mercury News |
MediaNews VP David Butler named editor |
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| Jan.2 |
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.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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| 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.6 |
Google |
Agence France-Presse, Google Settle Suit |
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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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| Jun.8 |
SF Chronicle |
Cabbie, Chronicle Reach Settlement |
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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
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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 nationwide in daily circulation behind Gannett, and rank 4th in revenue.
McClatchy CEO G. Pruitt said that all the papers are dominant in their markets and ripe for expansions.
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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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| Dec.5 |
Lafayette |
TV Anchor Doug Murphy Dies In Fire
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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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| 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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| Feb.28 |
San Francisco |
Red Herring magazine closes |
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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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| Oct.16 |
San Francisco |
Anchor Joe leaving KNTV |
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| Oct.8 |
San Francisco |
Upside magazine folds |
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| Feb.28 |
Pleasanton |
John Madden Moves to ABC
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| Nov.27 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle to cut 220 jobs
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| Nov.21 |
San Francisco |
Examiner ends after 113 years
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| Nov.16 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle leaders named |
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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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| 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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| Feb.3 |
SF Chronicle |
Columnist Art Hoppe Dies Eloquent satire skewered the pompous and powerful for over 40 years. He was 74
|
| Feb.1 |
Berkeley |
Free-Lancers On Strike at Pacifica News More than 40 free-lance reporters protest censorship at the free-speech radio network
|
| Jan.22 |
Oakland |
Newspaper Wins Suit |
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