| Categories | Culture |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Modern Luxury |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Website | www.sanfranmag.com |
San Francisco is an American monthly magazine devoted to San Francisco Bay Area culture, including arts, food, and entertainment. It is published monthly by Modern Luxury publications.
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There have been two separate San Francisco magazines published in San Francisco. The first was started in the 1970's 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 nation-wide conglomerate of city and lifestyle magazines).[4]
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.
Prior to joining San Francisco as editor-in-chief in July 2000, Bruce Kelley was executive editor at Health magazine, where he worked since 1992. His regional editing experience spanned Sunset and California magazines. He has also written for publications such as the Los Angeles Times magazine, the New York Times, and Mother Jones.
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James Beard Awards
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