By: (AP) Less than two years after its debut, the
San Francisco Chronicle has decided to stop the presses on the newspaper's afternoon edition. The last issue will be published Sept. 27.
Chronicle Publisher John Oppedahl made the announcement to staffers in a memo distributed Friday and made public Monday on an Internet media news site.
Oppedahl said the current "harsh economic reality cannot justify the continued costs" of publication. "The deep financial hole we're in is something we must face, as we've been saying for some time."
About 8,000 copies of the afternoon edition are being sold daily, the newspaper said. The
Chronicle's morning circulation is 525,897 daily and 537,145 on Sunday.
Joe Brown, a
Chronicle spokesman, said Monday that no staff reductions are anticipated. "It was a great product," he said, "but times being what they are, we had to cut back."
The
Chronicle's afternoon edition was launched Nov. 22, 2000, to fill a void created when ownership of the
San Francisco Examiner was formally transferred from the Hearst Corp. to the Fang family and converted from afternoon to morning publication. At the same time, Hearst acquired the morning
Chronicle.
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