Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "SF Weekly" in English language version.
When I was hired as SF Weekly's arts editor in March 2015, pretty much the entire staff had departed over a six-week period, beginning with the surprise termination of editor Brandon Reynolds.
Classified ads were the "meat and potatoes" of SF Weekly's finances, Byrne explains, so when Craigslist became popular, that was a death knell for the previous financial model that newspapers around the country relied on. In 1998, when Byrne first started working at SF Weekly, their issues were thick with classified ads.