The San Francisco Examiner is a newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California, which has been published since 1863 CE. Once self-dubbed the "Monarch of the Dailies" by then-owner William Randolph Hearst and the flagship of the Hearst chain, the Examiner converted to free distribution early in the 21st century and is owned by Clint Reilly Communications, which bought the newspaper at the end of 2020 CE along with the SF Weekly.