The San Francisco Bay Guardian is no more.
The longtime voice of San Francisco's progressive community will stop publishing effective Wednesday, the newspaper's parent company announced Tuesday.
The Guardian, founded in 1966, had been bought out by the San Francisco Media Company in 2012. On Tuesday morning, the San Francisco Media Company announced that it had "pulled its funding" from the weekly newspaper, one of three the company owns.
Publisher Glenn Zuehls said that the paper simply wasn't profitable, according to SFist. The company will continue to publish the San Francisco Examiner and SF Weekly.
The newspaper was known for left-leaning politics as well as investigations into malfeasance by PG&E and city politicians, many of whom were made longstanding enemies.
Staffers let go on Tuesday said that they are making plans to continue publishing in some form. But in the meantime, Wednesday's Best of the Bay issue will be the final issue.
Full disclosure: NBC Bay Area correspondent Chris Roberts is also employed by the San Francisco Media Company.
