SFGate

{{Short description|American news website}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2022}}

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{{Infobox website

| name = SFGate

| logo = Logo of SFGate.svg

| type = News website

| current_status = Active

| issn = 1932-8672

| language = English

| headquarters = 901 Mission Street

| location_city = San Francisco, California

| location_country = U.S.

| owner = Hearst Newspapers

| founder =

| editor = Grant Marek

| url = {{URL|https://www.sfgate.com/|SFGate.com}}

| launch_date = {{Start date and age|1994|11|03}}

}}

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.{{cite web |date=October 2020 |title=About SFGate |url=https://www.sfgate.com/home/article/About-SFGATE-15613713.php#:~:text=SFGATE%20is%20your%20portal%20to,important%20news%20and%20fascinating%20features.&text=Launched%20in%201994%2C%20SFGATE.com,Francisco%20Chronicle%20for%2019%20years. |website=SFGate |access-date=July 18, 2022 |archive-date=July 31, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210731162442/https://www.sfgate.com/home/article/About-SFGATE-15613713.php#:~:text=SFGATE%20is%20your%20portal%20to,important%20news%20and%20fascinating%20features.&text=Launched%20in%201994%2C%20SFGATE.com,Francisco%20Chronicle%20for%2019%20years. |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=SFGate.com Traffic Analytics |url=https://www.similarweb.com/website/sfgate.com/#overview |website=Similarweb |access-date=July 18, 2022 |archive-date=November 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221123195219/https://www.similarweb.com/website/sfgate.com/#overview |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Harrison |first=Laird |date=March 25, 2013 |title=San Francisco Chronicle Launches Paywall; Reporters Launch Twitter Strike |url=https://www.kqed.org/news/92381/san-francisco-chronicle-launches-pay-wall-reporters-launch-twitter-strike |publisher=KQED |access-date=2022-12-08}}

Launched on November 3, 1994 as The Gate in the wake of an eleven-day newspaper strike,{{cite news |last=Lewis |first=Peter H. |date=November 9, 1994 |title=The Media Business; A Newspaper Labor Dispute Spawns an On-Line Rivalry |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/09/business/the-media-business-a-newspaper-labor-dispute-spawns-an-on-line-rivalry.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=July 18, 2022 |archive-date=July 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707181635/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/09/business/the-media-business-a-newspaper-labor-dispute-spawns-an-on-line-rivalry.html |url-status=live }} and renamed SFGate in 1998, the site once served as the digital home of the San Francisco Chronicle.{{cite web |last=Kershner |first=Vlae |date=November 3, 2009 |title=SFGate turns 15: A timeline |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/stew/detail?blogid=93&entry_id=50331 |website=SFGate |access-date=November 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091215123215/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/stew/detail?blogid=93&entry_id=50331 |archive-date=2009-12-15}} SFGate and the San Francisco Chronicle split into two separate newsrooms in 2019, with independent editorial staff.{{cite web |last=Batey |first=Eve |date=January 17, 2020 |title=Legendary Mission Bar Amnesia Is Closing |url=https://sf.eater.com/2020/1/17/21070408/amnesia-tsuta-mission-beit-rima-jeremy-fish |website=Eater |access-date=July 18, 2022 |archive-date=September 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220904175814/https://sf.eater.com/2020/1/17/21070408/amnesia-tsuta-mission-beit-rima-jeremy-fish |url-status=live }}

At the time SFGate split from the Chronicle in 2019, it had only 21 staff members.{{cite news |last1=Marek |first1=Grant |title=SFGATE, the West Coast's largest news site, embarks on major national parks coverage expansion |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sfgate-national-parks-expansion-2025-20013577.php |work=SFGate |date=January 6, 2025}} By 2021, the SFGate newsroom consisted of about 40 staff, including Drew Magary and Rod Benson.{{cite episode |last=Cornish |first=Audie |author-link=Audie Cornish |date=May 28, 2021 |title=The Mental Health Burden Of Sports Press Conferences After Losing |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/05/28/1001378020/the-mental-health-burden-of-sports-press-conferences-after-losing |series=All Things Considered |network=NPR |access-date=2022-12-08 |archive-date=December 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208070251/https://www.npr.org/2021/05/28/1001378020/the-mental-health-burden-of-sports-press-conferences-after-losing |url-status=live }} By 2025, SFGate had grown to 60 journalists in 23 different cities and claimed that it was now "the largest news site on the entire West Coast". Grant Marek has served as editor-in-chief since 2019.