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    News-Press: Melissa Evans and Tom Schultz Also Cut; John Zant Probably Next


    Tuesday, February 6, 2007
    By Matt Kettmann (Contact)
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    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. Tom%20Schultz%20Web.jpg 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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