General Info

Famous writers Mark Twain and Jack London were both reporters for the San Francisco Examiner. The newspaper is a daily that has been published since 1865. It began under the name The Daily Examiner and was acquired by publishing legend William Randolph Hearst in 1887. The paper covers numerous topics including sports, business, entertainment weather and news. The Examiner has online and print issues and covers news for the San Francisco, California metropolitan area. In 2000, Ted Fang obtained the Examiner name, its archives, 35 delivery trucks and a subsidy of $66 million as part of the Hearst Corporation's acquisition of the San Francisco Chronicle.