SAN FRANSISCO — The new San Francisco Examiner has been making headlines for months, caught in a roiling stew of family feuds and political rivalries.
Wednesday, it starts printing them.
SAN FRANSISCO — The new San Francisco Examiner has been making headlines for months, caught in a roiling stew of family feuds and political rivalries.
Wednesday, it starts printing them.
"We are making history," said Ted Fang, the 37-year-old publisher, boyishly exuberant as he addressed his troops in the Examiner's new quarters overlooking busy Market Street.
To get there, Fang and the bosses he's recently hired have had to survive an antitrust challenge, scramble for room in a space-starved city and figure out how to get out a brand new product, all in the glare of competing media.
What they haven't had to worry about is high expectations.
"The one thing they're not expecting us to do in San Francisco is to put out a great paper. They don't even know what a great paper is," says consultant Roger Black, who is helping with the newspaper's design.
Like everyone else involved in the new daily newspaper, he's betting it will succeed.
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