The longtime "Monarch of the Dailies" and flagship of the Hearst Corporation chain, the Examiner converted to free distribution early in the 21st century and is owned by Clint Reilly Communications, which bought the newspaper at the end of along with the SF Weekly.
The Examiner was founded in as the Democratic Press , a pro- Confederacy , pro-slavery, pro- Democratic Party paper opposed to Abraham Lincoln , but after his assassination in , the paper's offices were destroyed by a mob, and starting on June 12, , it was called The Daily Examiner.
Seven years later, after being elected to the U. Senate , he gave it to his son, William Randolph Hearst , who was then 23 years old. The elder Hearst "was said to have received the failing paper as partial payment of a poker debt. William Randolph Hearst hired S.
Sam Chamberlain , who had started the first American newspaper in Paris, as managing editor [5] and Arthur McEwen as editor, and changed the Examiner from an evening to a morning paper. William Randolph Hearst created the masthead with the "Hearst Eagle" and the slogan Monarch of the Dailies by at the latest. After the great earthquake and fire of destroyed much of San Francisco, the Examiner and its rivals—the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Call —brought out a joint edition.
The Examiner offices were destroyed on April 18, , [8] but when the city was rebuilt, a new structure, the Hearst Building, arose in its place at Third and Market streets. It opened in , and in the facade, entranceway and lobby underwent an extensive remodeling designed by architect Julia Morgan. Through the middle third of the twentieth century, the Examiner was one of several dailies competing for the city's and the Bay Area's readership; the San Francisco News , the San Francisco Call-Bulletin , and the Chronicle all claimed significant circulation, but ultimately attrition left the Examiner one chief rival—the Chronicle.
Strident competition prevailed between the two papers in the s and s; the Examiner boasted, among other writers, such columnists as veteran sportswriter Prescott Sullivan, the popular Herb Caen , who took an eight-year hiatus from the Chronicle — , and Kenneth Rexroth , one of the best-known men of California letters and a leading San Francisco Renaissance poet, who contributed weekly impressions of the city from to Ultimately, circulation battles ended in a merging of resources between the two papers.
For 35 years starting in , the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner operated under a Joint Operating Agreement whereby the Chronicle published a morning paper and the Examiner published in the afternoon.
The Examiner published the Sunday paper's news sections and glossy magazine, and the Chronicle contributed the features. Circulation was approximately , on weekdays and , on Sundays. By , discussion was already brewing in print media about the possible shuttering of the Examiner due to low circulation and an extremely disadvantageous revenue sharing agreement for the Chronicle. On October 31, , sixty members of the Gay Liberation Front , the Committee for Homosexual Freedom CHF , and the Gay Guerilla Theatre group staged a protest outside the offices of the Examiner in response to a series of news articles disparaging people in San Francisco's gay bars and clubs.
Somebody could have been hurt if that ink had gotten into their eyes, but the police were knocking people to the ground.
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