Mark Morford

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Mark Morford is an award-winning columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. His deeply satiric social commentary column is called Notes & Errata and is published every Wednesday and Friday in both the print edition, and on the Chronicle's website, SFGate.com. His writing is sometimes controversial and almost always non-journalistic in style, attitude and tone. His topics vary widely, from sex and deviance to popular culture, technology, music and politics, often featuring some of the most direct, pointed (and, arguably, one-sided) anti-conservative language found in any major newspaper in the country.

In 2001 he was suspended for his comments on a sexual relationship between a teenage male student and an older female teacher. In 2003 he was suspended again, this time without acknowledgement from management, for violating Chronicle guidelines by including a curse word in his email newsletter, The Morning Fix (see below), without express permission.^[1]

Besides his column, he has in the past created, written and edited a hit "underground" newsletter for SFGate.com, The Morning Fix, which featured raw, barely edited, "mini" riffs on news and current events, along with reader feedback email, "Word of the Day," "Mullet Haiku" and other elements that might now be considered very blog-like. This newsletter was once daily, but when more-stringent review policies were enforced by corporate management, the newsletter shifted to being published no more than three times per week and is no longer published at all, and to its former fans, has now achieved a cult-like status. A simple Notes & Errata publication notification mailing list stands in its place.

Morford has twice won first place in the online segment of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' annual contest.^{[citation needed]}

Since 2000, along with his writing career, Morford has taught Vinyasa yoga classes in San Francisco, most recently at the Yoga Tree network of schools.^[2]