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There's some history to the recent acquisition, firing, and shutting down of the paper here:
There's some history to the recent acquisition, firing, and shutting down of the paper here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Guardian#Sale_and_recent_developments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Guardian#Sale_and_recent_developments
In a nutshell, San Francisco Media Company bought San Francisco Bay Guardian in 2012 and the other alternative weekly SF Weekly in 2013.
They also own the SF Examiner newspaper. I guess three newspapers was too much so they decided to downsize!


Gone is 40+ years of investigate reporting and journalism from www.sfbg.com.
Gone is 40+ years of investigate reporting and journalism from www.sfbg.com.


http://rss.sfbg.com is still around with a goodbye letter.
http://anyhost.sfbg.com is still around with a goodbye letter.
  The San Francisco Bay Guardian, a leading voice for progressive San Francisco since 1966, has stopped publishing. The San Francisco
  Media Company, which has published the Guardian since 2012, will publish the final issue on Wednesday, October 15th, 2014.
  As a company, we are proud of the SF Bay Guardian's legacy as a community watchdog, a publication with stellar reporting and its
  passion to push for a better city. It gave a voice to many in the city who might have been otherwise shut out of the corridors of power,
  kept countless city leaders honest and inspired a new breed of journalism across the nation.
  We say good-bye to a member of our media family and to an institution that has been a vital advocate for its vision for San Francisco
  for nearly half a century. The Guardian leaves San  Francisco a better city for the role it has played in shaping it these last decades.


Local Press:
Local Press:
* SFWeekly, the other alternative weekly owned by the same company: http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/10/14/san-francisco-bay-guardian-closed-by-san-francisco-media-company  
 
* SFWeekly, the other alternative weekly owned by the same company:  
** http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/10/14/san-francisco-bay-guardian-closed-by-san-francisco-media-company  
* SFist, blog: http://sfist.com/2014/10/14/the_san_francisco_bay_guardian_is_c.php
* SFist, blog: http://sfist.com/2014/10/14/the_san_francisco_bay_guardian_is_c.php
   
   

Revision as of 21:52, 14 October 2014

sfbg.com webpage on October 14th, 2014

Status

  • October 14th, 2014

San Francisco's Progressive Paper of Record the San Francisco Bay Guardian has been terminated.

There's some history to the recent acquisition, firing, and shutting down of the paper here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Guardian#Sale_and_recent_developments

In a nutshell, San Francisco Media Company bought San Francisco Bay Guardian in 2012 and the other alternative weekly SF Weekly in 2013. They also own the SF Examiner newspaper. I guess three newspapers was too much so they decided to downsize!

Gone is 40+ years of investigate reporting and journalism from www.sfbg.com.

http://anyhost.sfbg.com is still around with a goodbye letter.

 The San Francisco Bay Guardian, a leading voice for progressive San Francisco since 1966, has stopped publishing. The San Francisco 
 Media Company, which has published the Guardian since 2012, will publish the final issue on Wednesday, October 15th, 2014.
 As a company, we are proud of the SF Bay Guardian's legacy as a community watchdog, a publication with stellar reporting and its 
 passion to push for a better city. It gave a voice to many in the city who might have been otherwise shut out of the corridors of power, 
 kept countless city leaders honest and inspired a new breed of journalism across the nation.
 We say good-bye to a member of our media family and to an institution that has been a vital advocate for its vision for San Francisco 
 for nearly half a century. The Guardian leaves San  Francisco a better city for the role it has played in shaping it these last decades.

Local Press:

Archive.org mirror Jpeg mirror started here:

Issuu.com mirror

Screenshot of SF Bay Guardian mirror 2011-2014 on issuu.com
 Username : sf.guardian
 # This is the issuu.com account
   
 Document Name: 49.02
 # This is the issuu.com publication name
  
 Document ID: 141007194746-7819f25a55f483150eb9462df2f4be34
 # This is the issuu.com URL component for a specific document 

Bay Guardian document names for the 192 back issues are:

  • 45.11 - 45.52
  • 46.01 - 46.52
  • 47.01 - 47.52
  • 48.01 - 48.52
  • 49.01 - 49.03

Issuu.com API

  • Issuu.com uses a Flash viewer to stream JPEGS, but the iPhone App has access to the full pdfs
  • API URLs
 # Request PDF information for a given username and document name 49.02:
 http://publication.issuu.com/sf.guardian/49.02/ios_1.json
  
 # reveals all of the pdfUrls for each page of that issue, eg :
 # "pdfUrl": "http://page-pdf.issuu.com/141007194746-7819f25a55f483150eb9462df2f4be34/3.pdf"
  
 # NOTE: the covers are not pdfs, they are jpegs, and have null pdfUrl fields:
 # "jpgUrl": "http://image.issuu.com/141007194746-7819f25a55f483150eb9462df2f4be34/jpg/page_1.jpg"
 # Request Document ID for a given username and document name:
 http://api.issuu.com/query?action=issuu.document.get_user_doc&format=json&documentUsername=sf.guardian&name=49.02
   
  # "documentId":"141007194746-7819f25a55f483150eb9462df2f4be34",