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Yahoo!The Blood Keeps Spilling in News-Press Newsroom
It's been confirmed as of 10:30 a.m. Tuesday morning:
News-Press reporters Melissa Evans and
Tom Schultz (pictured) were just fired, and the
sports' department's senior writer John Zant is
likely next in line. 
All were given the same reasoning that
reporters
Dawn Hobbs, Barney McManigal, and Rob Kuznia got yesterday:
"disloyalty" to the company for their participation in
last Friday's banner hanging demonstration over the 101
freeway.
For more on this, see the report just filed on yesterday's firings -- including the union's response -- by clicking here.
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Zant's termination is confirmed. Everyone's wondering what tomorrow's paper will look like (and then every one from then on out). Does anyone know if any replacement reporters have been hired?
matt k
February 6, 2007 at 12:10 p.m.
In the answering own question dept: It looks like the N-P is looking for an assistant editor for Scene and some copy editors and designers too. That's on JournalismJobs.com.
matt k
February 6, 2007 at 12:14 p.m.
The empress has no clothes, & soon her paper will be invisible too.
And Then There Were None...
February 6, 2007 at 12:24 p.m.
Yolanda is cheap labor and a yes woman, much like Travis. Pretty soon the NP building will be empty and up for sale to pay McCaca's legal bills.
Glen Annie
February 6, 2007 at 7:21 p.m.
This evening the doorbell rang. My housemate andswered the door and a women asked we would be intersted in subscribing to the Santa Barbara News Press. A "no thanks, we discontinued several months ago" response was given and the solicitor left. I haven't had this situation occur in roughly 35 years.
Johnathon J. Smith
February 6, 2007 at 10:06 p.m.
Jonathon's story reminded me that one of my co-workers recently took advantage of what sounds like a fantastic subscription offer from the LA Times - a year of Thursday through Sunday delivery for $20. Wendy's loss is the LA Times' gain.
East Beach
February 6, 2007 at 11:11 p.m.
50 employees gone in 6 months and Travis is worried about 14 trees on lower State St. Talk about not seeing the forest through the trees. Get a clue! The cards have been dealt and the players are "all-in". That means Wendy had better be holding the right cards or she's flushed!
nolitigitation
February 7, 2007 at 7:40 a.m.
Subscribe to the LA Times and, what about those companies still advertising in the news-press? This blog has a list of those companies:
http://www.santabarbarasblog.com
Sinclar
February 7, 2007 at 3:16 p.m.
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