Noozhawk is an online newspaper that provides coverage for Santa Barbara County, California.[1] While initially focused on the greater Santa Barbara area, Noozhawk expanded its coverage to the northern part of the county in the summer of 2014.[1] It gained further potential audience with the July 2023 bankruptcy of the Santa Barbara News-Press.[2][3]
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Type of site | News |
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| Available in | English |
| Headquarters | 23 Hitchcock Way #103 Santa Barbara, California |
| Area served | Santa Barbara County |
| Founder(s) | William Macfadyen |
| Key people | William Macfadyen (Partner/Publisher) Tom Bolton (Partner/Executive Editor) Kim Clark (Partner/VP-Business Development) |
| Parent | Noozhawk |
| URL | www |
| Launched | October 16, 2007 |
| Current status | Active |
History
editIn 2012, Noozhawk celebrated its 5th anniversary and hired Tom Bolton, a former reporter and editor with the Santa Barbara News-Press and Santa Maria Times, to be executive editor.[4] By the first quarter of 2020, the website was averaging more than 1.8 million page views per month, according to Quantcast.
References
edit- ^ a b Grubisich, Tom (August 14, 2014). "How Santa Barbara's Noozhawk Zeroes In on News and Profits". Street Fight. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
- ^ Sainato, Michael (July 24, 2023). "Longest-running southern California newspaper closes after 168 years". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ Yamamura, Jean (March 9, 2024). "'Santa Barbara News-Press' Online Assets to Be Sold". The Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ Meagher, Chris (January 3, 2013). "Peaks and Valleys for S.B. Media (archive)". Santa Barbara Independent. Archived from the original on April 8, 2018. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
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