By Mark Hanzlik, Executive Director

If you haven’t read the current issue of Columbia Journalism Review, you may have missed one of the last takes on the altmedia publishing icon, Bruce Brugmann who stepped aside after more than 45 years this summer, selling The San Francisco Bay Guardian to the San Francisco Examiner.

The piece doesn’t cover every detail of the Brugmann’s (Bruce & wife Jean) life and publishing enterprise but in a tidy three pages, both sides of the prickly journalist, who the author refers to as one of the “lions” of the alt-weekly industry are well presented.   Many of us know Bruce and Jean and others employed at The San Francisco Bay Guardian over the years, there wasn’t much happening in the City that flew under the radar in the Alt Media industry.

In late April, we posted a piece of our own following the announcement of the sale of the Bay Guardian.