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SF Chronicle
Konstandinos Goumenidis, Photographer
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San Francisco Bay Area | CA | USA | Posted: 8:19 PM on 02.24.09 |
| ->> Yes best of luck! I have loved the paper since I was a child! |
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Dave Einsel, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Houston | TX | United States | Posted: 8:30 PM on 02.24.09 |
| ->> Very, very sad. Though, not entirely unexpected considering the loses and Hearst's similar move in Seattle with the P-I. I'm not sure the Guild can make enough concessions to save the paper. What is mind boggling is that San Francisco could easily become a no-newspaper town. Best of luck to my former Hearst colleagues. |
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Nic Coury, Photographer
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Monterey | CA | | Posted: 8:44 PM on 02.24.09 |
->> One of my favorite papers.
I recently met one of their photogs, Michael Macor, at Pebble Beach. Super nice guy and one of my favorite shooters.
Hopefully it won't get too bad up there. |
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Diana Porter, Photographer
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Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 9:34 PM on 02.24.09 |
| ->> I wonder if Houston is next? Another Hearst subsidiary... |
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Chris Jordan, Photographer
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Bay Area | CA | United States | Posted: 9:52 PM on 02.24.09 |
->> Good luck to everyone at the Chronicle. SF is too important a city to not have a daily news organization with the size and scope of the Chronicle. Hopefully they will be able to continue online or in some form, otherwise this is truly a huge loss to the Bay Area.
sigh |
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Steve Ueckert, Photographer
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Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 12:38 AM on 02.25.09 |
->> Diana--
Despite the way a contract or freelancer may be treated by the HouChron, it is still the cash cow of the hearst papers.
The reason the HouChron is so cash strapped is because the SFChron & the Seattle P-I are bleeding hearst papers dry.
Good luck to hearst employees in both Seattle and San Francisco, and if you negotiate anything, GET IT IN WRITING!!!
Don't ask why I posted as I did, I'm trying to move on.
--Steve Ueckert (recent hearst retiree) |
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Robert Hanashiro, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | | Posted: 12:41 AM on 02.25.09 |
| ->> Can you say: "Lean Dean"? |
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Ray Anderson, Photographer
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San Francisco | CA | USA | Posted: 12:51 AM on 02.25.09 |
->> I have had the pleasure to work around many of their talented and gracious photographers.
Always friendly and never pushy Kurt Rogers,Deanne Fitzmaurice,Michael Macor,Lance Iverson, Brant Ward,Lea Suzuki,Paul Chinn and many others I wish them all the best. |
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Tom Knier, Photographer
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Lancaster | PA | USA | Posted: 2:29 AM on 02.25.09 |
| ->> Maybe sell some of the Hearst Ranch? |
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Baron Sekiya, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Keaau | HI | USA | Posted: 3:33 AM on 02.25.09 |
| ->> "Rosebud" |
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Hal Smith, Photographer
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Sedalia | MO | USA | Posted: 12:10 PM on 02.25.09 |
| ->> I think it's ploy to bust the union. If the paper were to close what would take its place? |
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Robert Hanashiro, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | | Posted: 12:21 PM on 02.25.09 |
->> "Tom Knier, Photographer
Lancaster | PA | USA | Posted: 2:29 AM Today
->> Maybe sell some of the Hearst Ranch?"
With that thought: Do you think the $900 million sale of the Cubs and Wrigley Field will "save" the LA Times, et al? |
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Mike Shepherd, Photographer
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Wichita | KS | USA | Posted: 12:41 PM on 02.25.09 |
| ->> Hal, I really don't think newspaper executives give a damn. If they cared about newspapers so much they wouldn't have allowed them to get to this point, don't ya think> |
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Jason Fritz, Student/Intern
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San Francisco | CA | USA | Posted: 3:22 PM on 02.25.09 |
->> It seems strange that San Francisco, of all places, could be the first major American city to not have a daily. Having lived there for 10 years, I can say its one of the most civically engaged, highly literate cities in the country. It's a place where people read the newspaper, in one way, shape, or form and have a commitment to their community.
Perhaps there is an opportunity to do something forward thinking and turn The Chron into a quality, wed only publication. If it can work in any town, it's San Francisco.
I know The Detroit Free Press is already doing a web only publication several days a week.
SF has been on the cutting edge of so many things. It is also a very tech savvy place. Hopefully, The Chronicle can become a viable web only publication. |
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Ian L. Sitren, Photographer
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Palm Springs | CA | USA | Posted: 3:53 PM on 02.25.09 |
| ->> Jason's remark "... most civically engaged, highly literate cities in the country. It's a place where people read the newspaper..." is pretty interesting and causes me to wonder what newspapers are doing like in the world like LeMonde and such. Just asking if anyone knows? |
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Robert Hanashiro, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | | Posted: 4:26 PM on 02.25.09 |
->> Newspaper circulation rising globally, down in U.S.
Posted 6/2/2008 8:22 PM
GOTEBORG, Sweden (AP) — Global newspaper circulation is rising, buoyed by demand in Asia and South America — belying predictions of the demise of print journalism, officials said at the start of an international newspaper conference.
Circulation of paid newspapers rose 2.6% worldwide in 2007, with the biggest jump in India and China — which is now the largest market for newspapers with 107 million copies sold daily, according to a report by the World Associated of Newspapers.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-06-02-newspaper_N.htm |
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Nhat V. Meyer, Photographer
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San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 5:04 PM on 02.25.09 |
->> http://tinyurl.com/b9rcje
"Take a deep breath and repeat after me: The San Francisco Chronicle is not going to die. Say that five times, and then let’s understand why." |
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Nina Zhito, Photographer
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bay area | CA | | Posted: 5:25 PM on 02.25.09 |
->> "Lean Dean" as in MediaNews Group CEO Dean Singleton, who has gradually been acquiring just about every other paper in the Bay Area, from the San Jose Mercury News in the South, to the Marin IJ in the North Bay, the Contra Costa Times and the Oakland Trib in the East Bay. Missing was the middle piece, SF itself. Since Hearst helped fund that buying spree not too long ago, it could make sense that the Chron would be folded in.
This may explain the Chron's recent redesign, causing many distressed readers to note a disturbing similarity to the USA Today (another MediaNewsGroup property.) |
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Steve Ueckert, Photographer
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Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 6:46 PM on 02.25.09 |
->> Meanwhile, elsewhere among the hearst paper, 75 gone from the Editorial Division of the San Antonio Express News.
From the Poynter Institute's website:
Hearst's San Antonio Express-News cuts 75 newsroom positions
Romenesko Memos
"Incremental staff and budget cuts, we are sorry to say, have proven inadequate amid changing social and market forces now compounded by this deepening recession," editor Robert Rivard tells his staff. "No one is being asked to leave the Express-News today unless you so choose. March 20 will be the final day for those whose jobs are being cut." |
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Jason Fritz, Student/Intern
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San Francisco | CA | USA | Posted: 8:35 PM on 02.25.09 |
->> Ian,
I am not sure about Le Monde, but I have a friend in Denmark who works for Jyllands-Posten, one of the major dailies there. She mentioned that her paper (and many european papers) are having similar problems with declining print circulation and internet ad revenue that is unable to make up the difference.
It seems like they have cut costs through attrition and avoided the decimating buy outs and layoffs that the US newspapers are experiencing. However, she wasn't painting a rosy picture and it seems like maybe they will be facing the situation we are in just a couple of years.
But I would love to hear if anyone has more information about newspapers in other parts of the world. Europe, Latin American, Mid East, Asia, Africa??? Does any one have information about the health of newspapers overseas??? I would be very curious to hear their perspective.
While many have been predicting that many major US cities could be newspaper free in the near future, it didn't really seem possible. And I would have never guessed that SF would be the first one.
Although if craigslist killed journalism, perhaps it is fitting that The San Francisco Chronicle is the first to go. A very sad day indeed. |
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John J. Kim, Photographer
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chicago | il | usa | Posted: 8:48 PM on 02.25.09 |
->> just a correction, nina -
usa today is a gannett paper, not medianews. |
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Nina Zhito, Photographer
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bay area | CA | | Posted: 9:10 PM on 02.25.09 |
| ->> Yikes, good catch and you are correct John Kim. In my area, an edition is printed at a MNG plant, unless things have changed recently. Thanks for setting the record straight. |
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