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After the great earthquake and fire of 1906 destroyed much of San Franciso, The San Francisco Examiner and its erstwhile rival, the San Francisco Chronicle, brought out a joint edition. For 35 years starting in 1965(?) the The San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner operated under a Joint Operating Agreement whereby The Chronicle published a morning paper and The San Francisco Examiner published an afternoon paper.
In 2000 Ted Fang obtained the Examiners name, its archives, 35 delivery trucks and a subsidy of $66 million (over two years) as part of the Hearst corporation's acquisition of the San Francisco Chronicle. The last day the Hearst Corporation published the Examiner was November 21, 2000. Soon the Examiner shrank drastically in size, becoming tabloid format. The Chronicle Publishing Company, owner of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper until 2000, has been a privately-held, family-run company since the DeYoung family first published the San Francisco Chronicle in 1865.
On February 19, 2004 it was announced that Denver, Colorado-based billionaire Philip Anschutz had purchased the Examiner and its printing plant for an estimated $20 million.