By the edhat staffSanta Barbara's longest running newspaper, the controversial Santa Barbara News-Press, has laid off its staff and filed to liquidate. The filing document also states the company decided to file for bankruptcy during a May 1, 2023 meeting. In an email to Santa Barbara News-Press staff, Managing Editor Dave Mason wrote: “I have some bad news. The 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. More reporters and staffers were fired, or resigned, leading to numerous lawsuits and an all-out boycott of the paper by the majority of Santa Barbara residents.

Source: The Guardian July 24, 2023 17:19 UTC