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This is the week of Santa Barbara News-Press For now, they are going to be digital only.
A note was issued on the paper’s front page on Wednesday stating the printing editions will be temporarily unavailalbe due to “power issues” with their printing plant at at 725 S. Kellogg Ave. in Goleta.
They have not specified when they anticipate the problem to be resolved.
In April, we wrote about the shrinking staff at the Santa Barbara News-Press Had vacated 715 Anacapa Street, a historic downtown building.
Goleta Printing Plant is the new home for all administrative services including newsrooms, circulation and advertising.
Photo of the News-Press Building downtown Santa Barbara by Edhat
It is important to note that the word “you” means “you”. Santa Barbara News-Press began printing as a weekly paper, The Santa Barbara Post in 1868, and after an acquisition in 1932 and a merger was renamed the News-Press. T.M. Storke, the respected editor of the paper that won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing 1962. Storke. Storke. The New York Times In 1984,
Wendy P. McCaw purchased the newspaper in 2000. In 2006, the controversy erupted as writers and editors resigned, claiming that McCaw interfered in the newsroom.
Santa Barbarans boycotted their newspaper and filed numerous lawsuits after more staffers and reporters were dismissed or quit.
Former News-Press journalists, Melinda Burns and Dawn Hobbs, penned an opinion piece in 2020 on McCaw’s “abuse of power.” They reported an administrative law judge of the National Labor Relations Board ordered McCaw to pay $2 million to the employee union and nearly 50 newsroom employees, in restitution for labor law violations going back a dozen years.