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I hope you're right! I would love to read interesting blogs about San Francisco (where I live) and it sure seems like if it would happen anywhere, it would happ

by lacker 18y ago

I hope you're right! I would love to read interesting blogs about San Francisco (where I live) and it sure seems like if it would happen anywhere, it would happen here. So far I haven't found any SF-focused blogs that I want to read.

royalpineapple 18y ago
Some local blogs I enjoy: http://sfist.com http://sfist.com http://sf.metblogs.com http://sf.metblogs.com http://sf.curbed.com http://sf.curbed.com http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/ http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/ http://njudahchronicles.com http://njudahchronicles.com http://violetbluesf.com http://violetbluesf.com http://missionmission.wordpress.com http://missionmission.wordpress.com The local blogs tend to link to each other quite a bit so if you find one you like its pretty easy to become exposed to more that might interest you.
jrwoodruff 18y ago
Pay attention to what's going on at the SF Chronicle. http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/2009/02/25/sf-chronicle-on-life-support/ http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/2009/02/25/sf-chronicle-o... The short of it - unless the paper cuts expenses by somewhere in the range of 50%, Hearst will will sell it. And in this economic climate, that's code for close it; see the Rocky Mountain News (http://www.vimeo.com/3390739 http://www.vimeo.com/3390739) or the Tucson Citizen. IF the SF Chronicle goes under - making San Francisco the first major metro market without a daily paper - I have no doubt that the displaced journalists and strong startup culture of the area will forge the first steps to a true, information era watch dog journalism. In short, newspapers need to stop pretending they still cover the news so that the next generation can figure out how to make this work. And no, citizen journalists and the twitterati are not the answer. Great journalism can only exist when it can support the salary of a great journalist. Otherwise, that journalist WILL go work as a spin doctor for whatever private firm or state government will pay them. I've seen it happen many many times. How can an unpaid citizen journalist match wits with that?
- mechanical_fish 18y ago
  In short, newspapers need to stop pretending they still cover the news so that the next generation can figure out how to make this work. I could not have said this better myself. In fact, if I could have said this, this is what I would have said!

by lacker 18y ago

royalpineapple 18y ago

Some local blogs I enjoy: http://sfist.com http://sfist.com http://sf.metblogs.com http://sf.metblogs.com http://sf.curbed.com http://sf.curbed.com http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/ http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/ http://njudahchronicles.com http://njudahchronicles.com http://violetbluesf.com http://violetbluesf.com http://missionmission.wordpress.com http://missionmission.wordpress.com The local blogs tend to link to each other quite a bit so if you find one you like its pretty easy to become exposed to more that might interest you.

jrwoodruff 18y ago

Pay attention to what's going on at the SF Chronicle. http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/2009/02/25/sf-chronicle-on-life-support/ http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/2009/02/25/sf-chronicle-o... The short of it - unless the paper cuts expenses by somewhere in the range of 50%, Hearst will will sell it. And in this economic climate, that's code for close it; see the Rocky Mountain News (http://www.vimeo.com/3390739 http://www.vimeo.com/3390739) or the Tucson Citizen. IF the SF Chronicle goes under - making San Francisco the first major metro market without a daily paper - I have no doubt that the displaced journalists and strong startup culture of the area will forge the first steps to a true, information era watch dog journalism. In short, newspapers need to stop pretending they still cover the news so that the next generation can figure out how to make this work. And no, citizen journalists and the twitterati are not the answer. Great journalism can only exist when it can support the salary of a great journalist. Otherwise, that journalist WILL go work as a spin doctor for whatever private firm or state government will pay them. I've seen it happen many many times. How can an unpaid citizen journalist match wits with that?

mechanical_fish 18y ago
In short, newspapers need to stop pretending they still cover the news so that the next generation can figure out how to make this work. I could not have said this better myself. In fact, if I could have said this, this is what I would have said!