# SFGate

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American news website

SFGate Type of site News website Available in English Founded November 3, 1994; 31 years ago (1994-11-03) Headquarters 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, California Owner Hearst Newspapers URL www.sfgate.com ISSN 1932-8672 OCLC number 1390658754

**SFGate** is a news website based in [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco), California, covering news, culture, travel, food, politics and sports in the [San Francisco Bay Area](/source/San_Francisco_Bay_Area), [Hawaii](/source/Hawaii) and California.

## History

Launched on November 3, 1994, as **The Gate** in the wake of an [eleven-day newspaper strike](/source/San_Francisco_newspaper_strike_of_1994),[1] and renamed **SFGate** in 1998, the site once served as the digital home of the *[San Francisco Chronicle](/source/San_Francisco_Chronicle)*.[2][3] [Hearst Newspapers](/source/Hearst_Newspapers) bought the site and SF Chronicle in the early 2000s.[3][4][5] SFGate and the *San Francisco Chronicle* split into two separate newsrooms in 2019, with independent editorial staff.[6] Grant Marek took over as editor-in-chief in 2019.[7] At the time SFGate split from the *Chronicle* in 2019, it had only 21 staff members.[8] By 2021, the SFGate newsroom consisted of about 40 staff, including [Drew Magary](/source/Drew_Magary) and [Rod Benson](/source/Rod_Benson).[9]

By 2025, SFGate had grown to 60 employees, with half of them working remotely in 23 different cities and claimed that it was now "the largest news site on the entire West Coast".[8][3] [*Press Gazette*](/source/Press_Gazette) profiled SFGate in 2025, describing it as the largest website dedicated to local news in the United States, noting that it has expanded to cover the entire state of California, in particular the more popular tourist destinations such as [National Parks](/source/List_of_national_parks_of_the_United_States) and [Disneyland](/source/Disneyland).[3]

## Awards and accolades

In 2010, SFGate won the [Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning](/source/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Editorial_Cartooning) for [Mark Fiore](/source/Mark_Fiore_(cartoonist))'s cartoons, marking the first time the award had been given to work not appearing in print.[10][11]

Since 2019, the site won awards from the San Francisco Press Club, North American Travel Journalists Association, and Society of American Travel Writers.[3]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Lewis, Peter H. (November 9, 1994). ["The Media Business; A Newspaper Labor Dispute Spawns an On-Line Rivalry"](https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/09/business/the-media-business-a-newspaper-labor-dispute-spawns-an-on-line-rivalry.html). *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20220707181635/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/09/business/the-media-business-a-newspaper-labor-dispute-spawns-an-on-line-rivalry.html) from the original on July 7, 2022. Retrieved July 18, 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Kershner, Vlae (November 3, 2009). ["SFGate turns 15: A timeline"](https://web.archive.org/web/20091215123215/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/stew/detail?blogid=93&entry_id=50331). *SFGate*. Archived from [the original](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/stew/detail?blogid=93&entry_id=50331) on December 15, 2009. Retrieved November 8, 2023.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-:0_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-:0_3-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-:0_3-4) Kenningham, Lucy (June 25, 2025). ["How SFGATE is making local news pay and filling California's news gaps"](https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/how-sfgate-is-making-local-news-pay-and-filling-californias-news-gaps/). *Press Gazette*. Retrieved December 3, 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["About SFGate"](https://www.sfgate.com/home/article/About-SFGATE-15613713.php). *SFGate*. October 2020. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210731162442/https://www.sfgate.com/home/article/About-SFGATE-15613713.php) from the original on July 31, 2021. Retrieved July 18, 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Harrison, Laird (March 25, 2013). ["San Francisco Chronicle Launches Paywall; Reporters Launch Twitter Strike"](https://www.kqed.org/news/92381/san-francisco-chronicle-launches-pay-wall-reporters-launch-twitter-strike). [KQED Inc.](/source/KQED_Inc.) Retrieved December 8, 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Batey, Eve (January 17, 2020). ["Legendary Mission Bar Amnesia Is Closing"](https://sf.eater.com/2020/1/17/21070408/amnesia-tsuta-mission-beit-rima-jeremy-fish). *[Eater](/source/Eater_(website))*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20220904175814/https://sf.eater.com/2020/1/17/21070408/amnesia-tsuta-mission-beit-rima-jeremy-fish) from the original on September 4, 2022. Retrieved July 18, 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Kenningham, Lucy (June 25, 2025). ["How SFGATE is making local news pay and filling California's news gaps"](https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/how-sfgate-is-making-local-news-pay-and-filling-californias-news-gaps/). *[Press Gazette](/source/Press_Gazette)*. Retrieved July 2, 2025.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Marek_8-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Marek_8-1) Marek, Grant (January 6, 2025). ["SFGATE, the West Coast's largest news site, embarks on major national parks coverage expansion"](https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sfgate-national-parks-expansion-2025-20013577.php). *SFGate*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [Cornish, Audie](/source/Audie_Cornish) (May 28, 2021). ["The Mental Health Burden Of Sports Press Conferences After Losing"](https://www.npr.org/2021/05/28/1001378020/the-mental-health-burden-of-sports-press-conferences-after-losing). *[All Things Considered](/source/All_Things_Considered)*. [NPR](/source/NPR). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20221208070251/https://www.npr.org/2021/05/28/1001378020/the-mental-health-burden-of-sports-press-conferences-after-losing) from the original on December 8, 2022. Retrieved December 8, 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** [Trostle, J.P.](/source/J._P._Trostle) (April 13, 2010). ["Mark Fiore wins 2010 Pulitzer Prize"](https://editorialcartoonists.com/mark-fiore-wins-2010-pulitzer-prize/). *editorialcartoonists.com*. [Association of American Editorial Cartoonists](/source/Association_of_American_Editorial_Cartoonists). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20220817073808/https://editorialcartoonists.com/mark-fiore-wins-2010-pulitzer-prize/) from the original on August 17, 2022. Retrieved July 18, 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** [Siegel, Robert](/source/Robert_Siegel) (April 13, 2010). ["Online Cartoonist Wins Pulitzer"](https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125914124). *[All Things Considered](/source/All_Things_Considered)*. [NPR](/source/NPR). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20221208070250/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125914124) from the original on December 8, 2022. Retrieved December 8, 2022.

## External links

- [Official website](https://www.sfgate.com/)

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