San Francisco (magazine)

This article is about the magazine. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation).
San Francisco
Editor Jon Steinberg
Categories City magazine
Frequency Monthly
Publisher Paul Reulbach
Total circulation 75,000
Year founded 1955
Country United States
Based in San Francisco
Language English
Website www.sanfranmag.com
ISSN 1097-6345

San Francisco is an American monthly magazine devoted to the people, culture, food, politics, and arts of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published monthly by Modern Luxury publications.

History

There have been two separate San Francisco magazines published in San Francisco. The first was started in the 1970s and published for many years, under a series of different publishers, until it went out of business around 1985.

The second magazine has its roots starting in 1955, when San Francisco public broadcasting station KQED-TV began publishing a programming guide called KQED in Focus. The program guide began to add more articles and took on the character of a regular magazine. The name was later changed to Focus Magazine and then to San Francisco Focus.[1] In 1984, a new programming guide, Fine Tuning was separated off from Focus, with Focus carrying on as a self-contained magazine.[2]

In the early 1990s, San Francisco Focus was the recipient of number of journalism and publishing awards, including a National Headliner Award for feature writing in 1993. In 1996, KQED sold San Francisco Focus to Diablo Publications in order to pay off debts.[3] The magazine was spun off into an independent entity in January 1997. In October 1997, the magazine re-branded itself as simply San Francisco. In 1999, new management took over and Editor-In-Chief Bruce Kelley arrived in June 2000. Under Kelley's leadership, San Francisco has been nominated for two National Magazine awards and has garnered three Maggies as Best City and Regional Magazine from the Western Publications Association (2006, 2007 and 2009). In 2005, San Francisco was sold to Modern Luxury Media (a nationwide conglomerate of city and lifestyle magazines).[4]

President

Fifth-generation San Franciscan Steven Dinkelspiel stepped to the head of San Francisco magazine as the publisher in March 1999 after working as both circulation director and general counsel for the magazine. After the merge of the magazine with Modern Luxury, he became the president of the magazine. With a B.A. from Yale University and a law degree from Stanford, he was a local district attorney for seven years, as well as a private business consultant specializing in libel law.

Editor in Chief

Jon Steinberg became editor-in-chief of the magazine in February 2012, before which he was a Senior Editor at New York Magazine.

Awards

American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME)
ASME'S "Ellie" Awards are the Oscars of Publishing

City & Regional Magazine Awards (CRMA)
The CRMA's annual awards honor the best city and regional publications throughout the country.

Maggie Awards
The Western Publications Association honors the "Best in the West" in editorial and design excellence in magazine, periodical, and online publishing.

James Beard Awards
These are the highest honors in the land for food journalism.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About KQED: The 1950s", KQED.com.
  2. ↑ "About KQED: The 1980s", KQED.com.
  3. ↑ "About KQED: The 1990s", KQED.com.
  4. ↑ "San Francisco magazine re-launches in a new format that redefines city and luxury magazine publishing" (press release), Modern Luxury Media, October 18, 2005.

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