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Six More Fired at Santa Barbara News Mess
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Thirty-three employees of the sleepy little Santa Barbara News-Press have been fired or quit in the past seven months and yesterday six more were axed knocking the total up to 39.
The latest half dozen were shown the door after allegedly going to a freeway overpass and holding up signs encouraging people to cancel their subscriptions to the embattled newspaper.
"Cancel Your Newspaper Today" and "Protect Free Speech" were hung during the morning rush hour, according to the AP, which is something that News-Press owner Wendy McCaw frowns on.
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One can only imagine the sweet life that working at a paper in Santa Barbara with no competition would be like. Easy, carefree, amazing.
Hopefully what will come from this will be McCaw forced to sell the paper at a low price, and the employees belonging to a union, and the News-Press rising from the ashes, hopefully with a bunch of UCSB Daily Nexus alumns at the reigns.
Complete list of all 39 ex-employees after the jump...
detail of a photo by the mighty Doc Searls
Dawn Hobbs, Rob Kuznia, Barney McManigal, John Zant, Melissa Evans, and Tom Schultz now join a long list of former cohorts. (List via savethenewspress.com)
Jerry Roberts, executive editor
George Foulsham, managing editor
Don Murphy, deputy managing editor
Jane Hulse, city editor
Michael Todd, 'Business' section editor
Barney Brantingham, columnist
Gerry Spratt, 'Sports' section editor
Colin Powers, presentation editor
Scott Hadly, senior writer
Camilla Cohee, staff writer
Lindsay Foster, copy editor
Joshua Molina, staff writer
Chuck Schultz, staff writer
Shelly Leachman, staff writer
Hildy Medina, staff writer
Mike Traphagen, staff writer
Kim Burnell, assistant sports editor
George Hutti, copy editor
Paula Pisani, copy editor
Andrea Huebner, 'Life' section editor
Len Wood, photo editor
Colby Frazier, staff writer (*)
Leah Etling, staff writer
Al Bonowitz, 'Travel' section editor
Starshine Roshell, staff writer
Dale Myers, assistant city editor
Frank Nelson, staff writer
Melinda Burns, staff writer (**)
Edmond Jacoby, 'Business' section editor
Joy Wells, office manager and 'den mother' extraordinaire
Amy Weinstein, assistant 'Scene' section editor
Anna Davison, staff writer (**)
Bob Guiliano, assistant city editor
(*) illegally fired
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(**) illegally fired, ULP charge pending
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