SFGate is a news website based in San Francisco, California, covering news, culture, travel, food, politics, and sports in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hawaii, and California. Owned by Hearst Newspapers, it is the second most popular news site in California, reaching approximately 25 to 30 million unique readers monthly.
November 3, 1994: SFGate Launched as The Gate
On November 3, 1994, SFGate was initially launched as The Gate following an eleven-day newspaper strike.
2010: SFGate Wins Pulitzer Prize
In 2010, SFGate was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for Mark Fiore's cartoons, marking the first time the award was given to work not appearing in print.
2019: SFGate and San Francisco Chronicle Split
In 2019, SFGate and the San Francisco Chronicle divided into separate newsrooms with independent editorial staff.
2019: SFGate Staff Size in 2019
In 2019, when SFGate split from the Chronicle, it had a staff of 21 members, and Grant Marek became editor-in-chief.
2021: SFGate Staff Size in 2021
By 2021, the SFGate newsroom had grown to approximately 40 staff members, including Drew Magary and Rod Benson.
2021: SFGate Wins San Francisco Press Club Awards
In 2021, SFGate received 10 San Francisco Press Club awards for various stories, including one on the future of San Francisco's Great Highway and another profiling members of the Paiute tribe saving their ancestral homeland from wildfires.
2025: SFGate Claims Largest News Site on West Coast
By 2025, SFGate had expanded to 60 journalists in 23 different cities and claimed to be "the largest news site on the entire West Coast".
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