San Francisco Metblogs » Chronicle http://sf.metblogs.com Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:59:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Touring writer has WWD blowout http://sf.metblogs.com/2009/06/14/touring-writer-has-wwd-blowout/ http://sf.metblogs.com/2009/06/14/touring-writer-has-wwd-blowout/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:12:19 +0000 Mark Pritchard http://sf.metblogs.com/?p=5750 Just to show Writers With Drinks still rocks the San Francisco literary scene, here are last night’s tweets from novelist Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Into the Beautiful North, who ended his national book tour at the Makeout Room last night. The reference to the Chronicle refers to a negative review the paper is about to give his novel.
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]]> http://sf.metblogs.com/2009/06/14/touring-writer-has-wwd-blowout/feed/ 0 Chronicle books section loses two editors in a few months http://sf.metblogs.com/2008/09/25/chronicle-books-section-loses-two-editors-in-a-few-months/ http://sf.metblogs.com/2008/09/25/chronicle-books-section-loses-two-editors-in-a-few-months/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:07:17 +0000 Mark Pritchard http://sf.metblogs.com/?p=4541 As reported by SF Weekly, the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle’s books section, Regan McMahon, has accepted a buyout and will leave the newspaper. McMahon had been books editor only a few months. She was promoted to the post when Oscar Villalon, who had helmed the section for several years, accepted a buyout in August.

According to the report, McMahon was assured by Chronicle managers that the paper would continue the 8-page tabloid section, which is now a pullout from the slightly longer Insight section of the Sunday paper. The moves come as newspapers across the country continue to hemorrhage money, with arts coverage being particularly vulnerable.

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