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The San Francisco Examiner

NEWSPAPER

Begun as the Evening Examiner in 1865 by William Moss, whose previous Confederacy-supporting paper had been destroyed by a mob following the death of Abraham Lincoln. The paper changed hands and was eventually accepted by George Hearst, U.S. Senator and father of William Randolph Hearst, as payment for a gambling debt in 1880. For many years it was published alongside the San Francisco Chronicle as the evening paper, but in 2000 it was purchased by the Fang family and turned into a tabloidish shadow of its former self, carrying mostly AP stories and very little local content. In 2004 the Anschutz family (based in Denver) purchased the runt paper, intending to turn it back into a proper newspaper. Since 2011, owned and published by an independent entity, the San Francisco Newspaper Company.

Official Website:
http://www.examiner.com/

Location:
San Francisco, CA

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ambrose Bierce
Author
24-Jun-1842 c. 1914 The Devil's Dictionary
Roy Blount, Jr.
Author
5-Oct-1941   Humorist
Phil Bronstein
Editor
c. 1951   San Francisco Chronicle Editor, 2003-08
Todd Gitlin
Educator
6-Jan-1943   Journalism professor, social critic
Bill Griffith
Cartoonist
20-Jan-1944   Personal friend of Zippy The Pinhead
George Hearst
Business
3-Sep-1820 28-Feb-1891 Patriarch of Hearst family fortune
William R. Hearst III
Business
c. 1950   San Francisco Examiner Editor, 1984-95
William Randolph Hearst
Business
29-Apr-1863 14-Aug-1951 Newspaper magnate
Warren Hinckle
Journalist
?   Former editor of Ramparts
Jeff Jarvis
Blogger
12-Sep-1954   Founder of Entertainment Weekly
Les Kinsolving
Journalist
18-Dec-1927   WorldNetDaily
Lewis Lapham
Editor
8-Jan-1935   Editor Emeritus, Harper's
John Markoff
Journalist
24-Oct-1949   New York Times computer guy
Chris Matthews
Talk Show Host
17-Dec-1945   Hardball with Chris Matthews
John R. Murphy
Publisher
7-Jan-1934   Publisher of the Baltimore Sun, 1981-92
Kenneth Rexroth
Poet
22-Dec-1905 6-Jun-1982 Disenchanted beat poet
R. U. Sirius
Journalist
?   Mondo 2000
David Talbot
Business
22-Sep-1951   Founder of Salon.com
Ernest Thayer
Poet
14-Aug-1863 21-Aug-1940 Casey at the Bat
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist
18-Jul-1937 20-Feb-2005 Gonzo journalist and author


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