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. The site, owned byHearst Newspapers, reaches approximately 25 million to 30 million unique readers a month, making it the second most popular news site in California after theLos Angeles Times.[1][2][3]
Launched on November 3, 1994 asThe Gate in the wake of aneleven-day newspaper strike,[4] and renamedSFGate in 1998, the site once served as the digital home of theSan Francisco Chronicle.[5]SFGate and theSan 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, theSFGate newsroom consisted of about 40 staff, includingDrew Magary andRod 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.
In 2021, the site won 10 San Francisco Press Club awards for stories including a look at the future of San Francisco'sGreat Highway and a profile on members of thePaiute tribe saving their ancestral homeland from wildfires.[11]
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