The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. The paper is owned by the Hearst Corporation, which bought it from the de Young family in 2000. It is the only major daily paper covering the city and county of San Francisco.
The San Francisco Chronicle's front page, April 22, 1906
The Old Chronicle Building, at 690 Market Street
The current Chronicle Building, at 901 Mission Street, was commissioned in 1924 and is pictured here in 2017.
Bill German (left), the Chronicle's editor emeritus, and Page One editor Jack Breibart in the newsroom, March 1994
Michael Henry de Young was an American journalist and businessman.
M. H. de Young and the San Francisco Chronicle in 1885