SFGate

SFGate is a news website based in San Francisco, California, covering news, culture, travel, food, politics and sports in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hawaii and California. The site, owned by Hearst Newspapers, reaches approximately 25 million to 30 million unique readers a month, making it the second most popular news site in California after the Los Angeles Times.^[1][2][3]

SFGate

Type of site	News website
Available in	English
Headquarters	901 Mission Street, San Francisco, California , U.S.
Owner	Hearst Newspapers
Editor	Grant Marek
URL	SFGate.com
Launched	November 3, 1994; 30 years ago (1994-11-03)
Current status	Active
ISSN	1932-8672

Launched on November 3, 1994 as The Gate in the wake of an eleven-day newspaper strike,^[4] and renamed SFGate in 1998, the site once served as the digital home of the San Francisco Chronicle.^[5] SFGate and the San Francisco Chronicle split into two separate newsrooms in 2019, with independent editorial staff.^[6]

At the time SFGate split from the Chronicle in 2019, it had only 21 staff members.^[7] By 2021, the SFGate newsroom consisted of about 40 staff, including Drew Magary and Rod Benson.^[8] By 2025, SFGate had grown to 60 journalists in 23 different cities and claimed that it was now "the largest news site on the entire West Coast".^[7] Grant Marek has served as editor-in-chief since 2019.

Awards and accolades

In 2010, SFGate won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for Mark Fiore's cartoons, marking the first time the award had been given to work not appearing in print.^[9][10]

In 2021, the site won 10 San Francisco Press Club awards for stories including a look at the future of San Francisco's Great Highway and a profile on members of the Paiute tribe saving their ancestral homeland from wildfires.^[11]

References

1. "About SFGate". SFGate. October 2020. Archived from the original on July 31, 2021. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
2. "SFGate.com Traffic Analytics". Similarweb. Archived from the original on November 23, 2022. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
3. Harrison, Laird (March 25, 2013). "San Francisco Chronicle Launches Paywall; Reporters Launch Twitter Strike". KQED. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
4. Lewis, Peter H. (November 9, 1994). "The Media Business; A Newspaper Labor Dispute Spawns an On-Line Rivalry". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 7, 2022. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
5. Kershner, Vlae (November 3, 2009). "SFGate turns 15: A timeline". SFGate. Archived from the original on December 15, 2009. Retrieved November 8, 2023.
6. Batey, Eve (January 17, 2020). "Legendary Mission Bar Amnesia Is Closing". Eater. Archived from the original on September 4, 2022. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
7. Marek, Grant (January 6, 2025). "SFGATE, the West Coast's largest news site, embarks on major national parks coverage expansion". SFGate.
8. Cornish, Audie (May 28, 2021). "The Mental Health Burden Of Sports Press Conferences After Losing". All Things Considered. NPR. Archived from the original on December 8, 2022. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
9. Trostle, JP (April 13, 2010). "Mark Fiore wins 2010 Pulitzer Prize". editorialcartoonists.com. Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Archived from the original on August 17, 2022. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
10. Siegel, Robert (April 13, 2010). "Online Cartoonist Wins Pulitzer". All Things Considered. NPR. Archived from the original on December 8, 2022. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
11. "The 2021 winners". San Francisco Press Club. October 5, 2021. Archived from the original on July 5, 2022. Retrieved July 18, 2022.

External links

• Official website