SFGate

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SFGate
Logo of SFGate.svg
Type of site
News website
Available inEnglish
Headquarters901 Mission Street, ,
U.S.
Owner Hearst Newspapers
EditorGrant Marek
URL SFGate.com
LaunchedNovember 3, 1994;30 years ago (1994-11-03)
Current statusActive
ISSN 1932-8672

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]

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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]

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