By the edhat Staff
This week, the Santa Barbara News-Press For now, they’re 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.
The newspaper has not specified when they expect to resolve the issue.
We reported in April that the staff at the Santa Barbara News-Press The historic downtown building at Anacapa Street 715 had been abandoned.
The newspaper in turmoil announced the move of all administrative operations including its newsroom, advertising and distribution services to Goleta Printing Plant.
Photo of the News-Press Building downtown Santa Barbara by Edhat
You can also find out more about the following: 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, won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing 1962. Storke. Storke. The New York Times 1984 was a year of change.
Wendy P. McCaw purchased the paper in 2000. In 2006, the controversy erupted as writers and editors resigned, claiming that McCaw interfered in the newsroom.
Santa Barbara residents boycotted the newspaper in droves after more reporters and staffers resigned or were fired.
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.