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Classified ads were the "meat and potatoes" of SF Weekly's finances, Byrne explains, so when Craigslist became popular, that was a death knell for the previous financial model that newspapers around the country relied on. In 1998, when Byrne first started working at SF Weekly, their issues were thick
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Arts and Entertainment: includes a weekly calendar, city events listings, a music section with a weekly music column, several music features, show reviews. The section also includes a food column, film reviews, theater reviews, as well as
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won the suit in March, 2008, and was granted $ 6.2 million in damages, a figure that swelled to $ 21 million with antitrust penalties and interest by June 2010. After the verdict, the
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When I was hired as SF Weekly's arts editor in March 2015, pretty much the entire staff had departed over a six-week period, beginning with the surprise termination of editor Brandon Reynolds.
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In September 2012, Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan and Jeff Mars bought Village Voice Media's papers and associated web properties from its founders and formed
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2008: Cover Design: (Above 50,000) 1st Place: Darrick Rainey, "Wheelchairs of Fortune" July 25, 2007; "Just Say No" May 23, 2007, "Future Games" April 27, 2007
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misidentified the event's location and honorees. The paper's editor had apparently altered a column about a different event from years before.
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The annual SF Weekly Music Awards were based on a popular vote for nominees and were announced in October at the
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2004: Investigative Reporting: (Above 50,000) 1st Place (tie): "Death, Maiming, Money, and Muni" by Peter Byrne
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was founded locally in the late 1970s by Christopher Hildreth and Edward Bachman and originally named
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2002: Environmental Reporting: Lisa Davis for "Fallout", coverage of mishandling of nuclear waste at
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2002: Investigative Reporting: (Above 54,000) 1st Place: "Fallout" by Lisa Davis and John Mecklin,
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News: includes local, regional and sometimes statewide short and longform, in-depth news stories.
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2018: Digital writing, 1st place: "The Biggest Loss in Paradise: Its Elders" by Nuala Sawyer
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of its intention to pull tens of thousands of dollars in ad buys, the publisher of
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was the subject of ethical controversy in January 2006, when a column about the
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2009: News Story: (Above 50,000) 1st Place: "Snitch" by Ashley Harrell
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Alternative weekly newspapers published in the United States
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obtained court orders allowing it to seize and sell the
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San Francisco Music Calendar, the Magazine or Poster Art
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as the only print alternative weekly in San Francisco.
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In 2014, San Francisco Media Co. became fully owned by
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was sold to the San Francisco Media Company, owners of
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2004: News Story: (Above 50,000) 1st Place: Lisa Davis
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In December 2020, Clint Reilly Communications bought
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SFWeekly

Alternative weekly
Tabloid
OCLC
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www.sfweekly.com
alternative weekly
San Francisco, California
New Times Media
Voice Media Group
The San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Black Press
Craigslist
Dan Savage
Savage Love
Rob Brezsny
Free Will Astrology
Warfield Theatre
AVN Awards
The San Francisco Bay Guardian
San Francisco Bay Area
Market Street
225 Bush Street
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
George Polk Awards
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
Journalism portal
San Francisco Bay Area portal

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