KQED – 03/04/2020
Devin Katayama
Ericka Cruz Guevarra
Alan Montecillo
More people are relying on local news to understand what’s happening in their communities during the covid 19 pandemic. But that’s not enough to save it. (Courtesy Joe Rodriguez Fitzgerald)
On Tuesday, all staffers at the San Francisco Examiner and SF Weekly were notified that they’ll be taking a 40% cut in hours and salary, even though more people are reading their stories. In fact, on a single day in March, the number of pageviews for the Examiner was 6,000 times higher than normal.