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Type of site | News website |
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| Available in | English |
| Founded | November 3, 1994; 31 years ago (1994-11-03) |
| Headquarters | 901Mission Street, San Francisco, California |
| Owner | Hearst Newspapers |
| URL | SFGate.com |
| ISSN | 1932-8672 |
| OCLC number | 1390658754 |
SFGate is a news website based inSan Francisco, California, covering news, culture, travel, food, politics and sports in theSan Francisco Bay Area,Hawaii and California.
Launched on November 3, 1994, asThe Gate in the wake of aneleven-day newspaper strike,[1] and renamedSFGate in 1998, the site once served as the digital home of theSan Francisco Chronicle.[2][3]Hearst Newspapers bought the site and SF Chronicle in the early 2000s.[4][5][3] SFGate and theSan Francisco Chronicle split into two separate newsrooms in 2019, with independent editorial staff.[6] Grant Marek took over as editor-in-chief in 2019.[7] At the time SFGate split from theChronicle in 2019, it had only 21 staff members.[8] By 2021, the SFGate newsroom consisted of about 40 staff, includingDrew Magary andRod Benson.[9]
By 2025, SFGate had grown to 60 employees, with half of them working remotely in 23 different cities and claimed that it was now "the largest news site on the entire West Coast".[8][3]Press Gazette profiled SFGate in 2025, describing it as the largest website dedicated to local news in the United States that tends to focus on the more popular tourist destinations in California and for Californians fromNational Parks toDisneyland to Hawaii.[3]
In 2010, SFGate won thePulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning forMark Fiore's cartoons, marking the first time the award had been given to work not appearing in print.[10][11]
Since 2019, the site won awards from theSan Francisco Press Club,North American Travel Journalists Association, andSociety of American Travel Writers Lowell Thomas.[3]
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