Top Digital Media Companies in San Francisco

The Athletic was launched in 2016. It’s a website dedicated to covering sports. In 2022, it was acquired by The New York Times and has since been integrated into The NYT’s domain. It is now officially the sports department of The NYT. In addition to the coverage it provides in 47 cities and regions in North America, The Athletic also offers coverage in the United Kingdom. It covers everything from tennis, boxing, and Formula 1 to gold, MLB, NHL, Olumpcs, La Liga, and others.

Medium is an online publishing platform. It was launched by Evan Williams, Twitter co-founder and former CEO, in 2012. It is often seen as a blog host. Medium allows amateur writers and professionals, as well as publications, to publish their content. In 2017, the company introduced the option of paywalling content to make it accessible only to subscribers. According to TechCrunch, Medium has around 720,000 subscribers with the expectation to reach 1 million in 2024.

CBS Bay Area – or KPIX-TV (channel 5) – is a television station that serves the San Francisco Bay Area. It offers a variety of entertainment programs, as well as sports, talk and court shows, and newscasts. On the website, readers can access daily local news stories that cover sports, politics, business, weather, climate, investigations, and other themes.

San Francisco Business Time, a publication within The Business Journals group of news websites, is an online news publication. It covers latest breaking news, as well as stories in categories like commercial real estate, banking, technology, residential real estate, etc. Additionally, the publication puts out annual rankings – e.g., 40 Under 40, Best Places to Work, Most Influential Women – and hosts a series of events throughout the year.

PopSugar was established in 2006 by Brian and Lisa Sugar. Originally a pop culture blog, it has since grown into a media and technology company, with PopSugar becoming an online magazine with offices in San Francisco (HQ), Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and London. It publishes daily articles in categories like health, fitness, beauty, balance, identity, shopping, and others.

Published since 1863, the San Francisco Examiner is a broadsheet-format newspaper and new website. It caters to readers in the San Francisco area and those interested in local news. The San Francisco Examiner covers politics, technology, climate, housing, transit, education, culture, and sports. It also publishes obituaries and a list of local events – e.g., festivals, live music, arts, attractions, etc.

The Next Platform is a digital publication focused on technology, specifically high-end computing at large enterprises, public clouds, supercomputing centers, and hyperscale data centers. It was launched in 2015. It publishes news and in-depth pieces in categories such as compute, AI, HPC, code, control, cloud, edge, etc.

Headquartered in San Francisco, UroTOday is a news and education website with a reach of over 500,000 urologists and healthcare professionals around the world. It was establiehd in 2003. The content it offers is free. It publishes pieces in categories such as transformative evidence, trials in progress, clinical trials, as well as conference coverage.

Founded in mid-1970s, SF Weekly used to be an alternative weekly newspaper. In 2021, it ceased its print publication and is now an online music publication. SF Weekly publishes arts and entertainment news, including a calendar of local events, local, regional, and national news, and various columns and features pieces centered around music – its main focus. Among many national awards and accolades, SF Weekly has won 1st place in Investigating Reporting from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.

Established in 1978 by Gardner Mein, the Nob Hill Gazette is a monthly luxury lifestyle magazine. Print copies of the magazine are delivered to such neighborhoods as Pacific Heights, Nob Hill, the Marina, and other exclusive areas. On the website, users can access daily pieces in categories like fashion, health, real estate, food, beauty, travel, and others.

Founded in 1995 by Sergio Benvenuto, the European Journal of Psychoanalysis is an independent peer-reviewed journal “dedicated to advancing a global encounter with contemporary themes animating European psychoanalytic discourse”. Articles are made available on the website for users to read directly or download as PDFs.