SF Weekly

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SF Weekly
TypeAlternative weekly
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Clint Reilly Communications
PublisherJay Curran
Editor-in-chiefDeborah Petersen
EditorRichard Procter
Foundedmid-1980s
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters835 Market St.
Suite 550
San Francisco, California 94103[1]
Circulation70,000 (2018)
Websitewww.sfweekly.com

SF Weekly is a weekly newspaper based in San Francisco, California. The newspaper is distributed every Thursday and it is published by the San Francisco Print Media Company.[2] It has won national journalism awards and also hosts the SF Weekly Music Awards for recognition of musicians.

History[change | change source]

The newspaper was founded in the late 1970s by Christopher Hildreth and Edward Bachman. It was initially named as "San Francisco Music Calendar, the Magazine or Poster Art".[3]

References[change | change source]

  1. "Contact Us". SF Weekly. Archived from the original on September 15, 2021. Retrieved September 11, 2021.
  2. Vane, Sharyn (November 1998). "Consider the Alternative". American Journalism Review. Archived from the original on 2013-06-06. Retrieved 2021-09-25.
  3. Siklos, Richard (October 24, 2005). "The Village Voice, Pushing 50, Prepares to Be Sold to a Chain of Weeklies". The New York Times.