San Francisco Examiner/Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a morning paper, the San Francisco Examiner is afternoon, and since 1965 they have combined their efforts on Sunday as the San Francisco Examiner/Chronicle. The Chronicle was founded by Michael and Charles DeYoung in 1865; the family now owns six dailies and five TV stations. The Examiner is owned by the $4-billion Hearst empire. William Randolph Hearst took control of the Examiner in 1887 and was soon promoting the Spanish-American War to boost circulation. He was the model for the movie "Citizen Kane."

The Chronicle is the more upscale of the two newspapers. Back issues are available on-line through Knowledge Index (a version of Dialog that's offered through Compuserve), and when a library or distributor bothers with a San Francisco newspaper at all, it's invariably the Chronicle. On local stories, however, the Examiner can scoop the Chronicle. One example of this is the Anti-Defamation League spying scandal of 1993, which the Examiner covered in commendable detail. The same situation was true in Los Angeles, where the Hearst's afternoon Herald-Examiner seemed more responsive on local issues (such as LAPD political spying) than the L.A. Times. But then the Times was so much better on everything else that the Herald-Examiner shut down in 1989.

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