19 and 17. In 1887, young William Randolph Hearst took over his father's Daily Examiner, which became the flagship of his national chain. Fremont Older became editor of the San Francisco Bulletin in 1895 and took up the struggle against the powerful Southern Pacific Railroad and along with fellow Californian Lincoln Steffens, became a well-known muckraker and the first objective observer to accuse District Attorney Charles Fickert of the framing of labor radical Thomas Mooney. The oldest African-American newspaper, still active in the 1930s, was the California Eagle. It appeared first in Los Angeles in 1879. The first French journals, the Californien and the Gazette Republicane both began in 1850, and were followed by the Courrier du Pacifique in 1852. Both the first German and first Italian papers, the California Demokrat (1852) and the Voce del Popolo (1859) were founded in San Francisco and had long runs. Chinese in California have published many newspapers, the first being the Gold Hills News in 1854. Noted journalists, writers, cartoonists and publishers have passed through San Francisco's media world, including: Herbert Asbury Gertrude Atherton Ambrose Bierce Winifred Bonfils John Bruce Bruce Brugmann Gelett Burgess Herb Caen William Martin Camp Phil Elwood C.H. Garrigues Henry George Harold Gilliam Rube Goldberg Bret Harte William Randolph Hearst Warren Hinkle Art Hoppe Wallace Irwin Will Irwin Harry Jupiter James King of William Jack London Charles McCabe Joaquin Miller Prentice Mulford Fremont Older Randy Shilts Charles Warren Stoddard Mark Twain John L. Wasserman By the early decades of the 20th century, San Francisco supported four major dailies and numerous influential weeklies. The dailies were the San Francisco Call (later Call-Bulletin), the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Scripps-Howard-owned Daily News. The weeklies included the Wasp, the Argonaut, the Labor Clarion, the Coast Seamen's Journal, Emanu-el, Liberator and the News Letter. Today, several newspapers, covering community, regional, national, and international news, and community-specific papers, catering to niche markets and individual neighborhoods, are in circulation in the San Francisco Bay Area. The major English-language newspapers include the daily East Bay Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, and San Jose Mercury News. The weekly alternative papers are the Metro Silicon Valley, East Bay Express, and SF Weekly. The Epoch Times, Singtao Daily, World Journal, and Kangzhongguo are among the Asian newspapers that serve the Bay Area. Newspapers East Bay Times (Walnut Creek) – daily broadsheet The Daily