Three editorial employees have been laid off from the San Francisco Bay Guardian, including veteran reporter Sarah Phelan.
East Bay Express, Palo Alto Weekly, San Francisco Bay Guardian and SF Weekly were honored by the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club on Saturday.
San Francisco Bay Guardian picked up the coveted General Excellence award from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Palo Alto Weekly led all alt-weeklies with ten awards.
Stories from five AAN-member papers and one series that ran in several papers have been named finalists in this year's Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) journalism contest.
North Bay Bohemian published its annual "Best Of" issue using QR codes—which are typically hyped as an advertising tool—and used them to supplement the issue's editorial content.
The Tribes of Burning Man: How An Experimental City in the Desert is Shaping the New American Counterculture, evolved out of a series of cover stories that Jones wrote for the Bay Guardian.
John Ross, a freelancer for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the author of a 2007 investigation into the murder of journalist Brad Will in Oaxaca, Mexico, has died at the age of 72.
With minimal fanfare, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and SF Weekly both announced today that the two parties have "settled their differences on mutually acceptable terms."
Stephen Buel, who was fired as editor of the East Bay Express two weeks ago, has been hired as assistant city editor of the San Francisco Examiner.
