SFGATE
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. The site, owned by Hearst Newspapers, reaches approximately 25 million to 30 million unique readers a month, making it the second most popular news site in California after the Los Angeles Times.
Launched on November 3, 1994 as The Gate in the wake of an eleven-day newspaper strike, and renamed SFGate in 1998, the site once served as the digital home of the San Francisco Chronicle. SFGate and the San Francisco Chronicle split into two separate newsrooms in 2019, with independent editorial staff.
At the time SFGate split from the Chronicle in 2019, it had only 21 staff members.