{{Short description|American news website}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox website | name = SFGate | logo = Logo of SFGate.svg | type = News website | issn = 1932-8672 | oclc = 1390658754 | language = English | headquarters = 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, California | owner = Hearst Newspapers | website = {{Official URL}} | foundation = {{Start date and age|1994|11|03}} }}
'''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.
== History == Launched on November 3, 1994, as '''The Gate''' in the wake of an eleven-day newspaper strike,<ref>{{cite news |last=Lewis |first=Peter H. |date=November 9, 1994 |title=The Media Business; A Newspaper Labor Dispute Spawns an On-Line Rivalry |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/09/business/the-media-business-a-newspaper-labor-dispute-spawns-an-on-line-rivalry.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=July 18, 2022 |archive-date=July 7, 2022 |archive-url=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 |url-status=live }}</ref> and renamed '''SFGate''' in 1998, the site once served as the digital home of the ''San Francisco Chronicle''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kershner |first=Vlae |date=November 3, 2009 |title=SFGate turns 15: A timeline |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/stew/detail?blogid=93&entry_id=50331 |website=SFGate |access-date=November 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091215123215/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/stew/detail?blogid=93&entry_id=50331 |archive-date=December 15, 2009}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Hearst Newspapers bought the site and SF Chronicle in the early 2000s.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web |date=October 2020 |title=About SFGate |url=https://www.sfgate.com/home/article/About-SFGATE-15613713.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210731162442/https://www.sfgate.com/home/article/About-SFGATE-15613713.php |archive-date=July 31, 2021 |access-date=July 18, 2022 |website=SFGate}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Harrison |first=Laird |date=March 25, 2013 |title=San Francisco Chronicle Launches Paywall; Reporters Launch Twitter Strike |url=https://www.kqed.org/news/92381/san-francisco-chronicle-launches-pay-wall-reporters-launch-twitter-strike |publisher=KQED Inc. |access-date=December 8, 2022 }}</ref> SFGate and the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' split into two separate newsrooms in 2019, with independent editorial staff.<ref>{{cite web |last=Batey |first=Eve |date=January 17, 2020 |title=Legendary Mission Bar Amnesia Is Closing |url=https://sf.eater.com/2020/1/17/21070408/amnesia-tsuta-mission-beit-rima-jeremy-fish |website=Eater |access-date=July 18, 2022 |archive-date=September 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220904175814/https://sf.eater.com/2020/1/17/21070408/amnesia-tsuta-mission-beit-rima-jeremy-fish |url-status=live }}</ref> Grant Marek took over as editor-in-chief in 2019.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Kenningham |first=Lucy |date=June 25, 2025 |title=How SFGATE is making local news pay and filling California's news gaps |url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/how-sfgate-is-making-local-news-pay-and-filling-californias-news-gaps/ |access-date=July 2, 2025 |magazine=Press Gazette}}</ref> At the time SFGate split from the ''Chronicle'' in 2019, it had only 21 staff members.<ref name="Marek">{{cite news |last1=Marek |first1=Grant |title=SFGATE, the West Coast's largest news site, embarks on major national parks coverage expansion |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sfgate-national-parks-expansion-2025-20013577.php |work=SFGate |date=January 6, 2025 }}</ref> By 2021, the SFGate newsroom consisted of about 40 staff, including Drew Magary and Rod Benson.<ref>{{cite episode |last=Cornish |first=Audie |author-link=Audie Cornish |date=May 28, 2021 |title=The Mental Health Burden Of Sports Press Conferences After Losing |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/05/28/1001378020/the-mental-health-burden-of-sports-press-conferences-after-losing |series=All Things Considered |network=NPR |access-date=December 8, 2022 |archive-date=December 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208070251/https://www.npr.org/2021/05/28/1001378020/the-mental-health-burden-of-sports-press-conferences-after-losing |url-status=live }}</ref>
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".<ref name="Marek" /><ref name=":0" /> ''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 and Disneyland.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Kenningham |first=Lucy |date=June 25, 2025 |title=How SFGATE is making local news pay and filling California's news gaps |url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/how-sfgate-is-making-local-news-pay-and-filling-californias-news-gaps/ |access-date=December 3, 2025 |website=Press Gazette |language=en-US}}</ref>
== 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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Trostle |first=J.P. |author-link=J. P. Trostle |date=April 13, 2010 |title=Mark Fiore wins 2010 Pulitzer Prize |url=https://editorialcartoonists.com/mark-fiore-wins-2010-pulitzer-prize/ |website=editorialcartoonists.com |publisher=Association of American Editorial Cartoonists |access-date=July 18, 2022 |archive-date=August 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817073808/https://editorialcartoonists.com/mark-fiore-wins-2010-pulitzer-prize/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite episode |last=Siegel |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Siegel |date=April 13, 2010 |title=Online Cartoonist Wins Pulitzer |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125914124 |series=All Things Considered |network=NPR |access-date=December 8, 2022 |archive-date=December 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208070250/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125914124 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Since 2019, the site won awards from the San Francisco Press Club, North American Travel Journalists Association, and Society of American Travel Writers.<ref name=":0" />
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official website}}
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Category:American news websites Category:Internet properties established in 1994 Category:Mass media in San Francisco Category:San Francisco Chronicle