SF Weekly is

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 Voice Media Group. Four months later, SF Weekly was sold to the San Francisco Media Company, owners of The San Francisco Examiner and the Weeklys long-time rival San Francisco Bay Guardian. The publishers then had control of three of the four major English-language newspapers in San Francisco.

In 2014, San Francisco Media Co. became fully owned by Black Press. The Bay Guardian was closed in 2014, leaving the Weekly as the only print alternative weekly in San Francisco. It had been adversely affected by the loss of classified ads after the rise of Craigslist.

Sections

  • SF Weekly also publishes ', a cannabis publication, both online and in print.
  • News: includes local, regional and sometimes statewide short and longform, in-depth news stories.
  • 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 Dan Savage's syndicated sex advice column Savage Love and Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology.

SF Weekly Music Awards

The annual SF Weekly Music Awards were based on a popular vote for nominees and were announced in October at the Warfield Theatre.

Controversies

Ethics

SF Weekly was the subject of ethical controversy in January 2006, when a column about the AVN Awards misidentified the event's location and honorees. The paper's editor had apparently altered a column about a different event from years before.

In July 2015, after Matt Saincome wrote Counting Cards at Graton Casino, the casino notified SF Weekly of its intention to pull tens of thousands of dollars in ad buys; the publisher of SF Weekly, Glenn Zuehls, reportedly demanded that SF Weekly staff remedy the advertiser with a favorable cover story, by directly assigning the story to a reporter.

Bay Guardian Company, Inc. v SF Weekly, et al.

The San Francisco Bay Guardian, another free alternative weekly newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area, sued SF Weekly in civil court, alleging that it tried to put the Bay Guardian out of business by selling ads below cost. The Guardian 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 Guardian obtained court orders allowing it to seize and sell the Weeklys two delivery trucks and collect half of the Weeklys ad revenue.

Awards

;Long Island University George Polk Awards

  • 2002: Environmental Reporting: Lisa Davis for "Fallout", coverage of mishandling of nuclear waste at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard

;National Society of Newspaper Columnists

  • 2009: Humor: 1st Place: Katy St. Clair, Bouncer

See also

References

  • SF Weekly official website
  • The Snitch , official daily news blog
  • All Shook Down, official daily music and art blog
  • SF Foodie, official food and restaurants blog
  • Bruce Brugmann Library, official library of articles and court documents regarding Bruce Brugmann and the ongoing legal dispute between SF Weekly and the San Francisco Bay Guardian