The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times plan San Francisco editions

There are two sharks circling San Francisco preparing to devour the ailing San Francisco Chronicle and other Bay area newspapers. Those sharks are The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal , which are readying local editions for San Francisco. The papers are “hoping to win new readers and advertisers [in San Francisco] by offering more local news, in what could be the first glimpse at a new strategy by national newspapers to capitalize on the contraction of regional papers,” Richar…