Fired journalists fire up their own news site
Cory Bergman April 4th, 2007
Have you been following the big mess at the Santa Barbara News-Press? In essense, the paper’s eccentric owner and co-publisher put journalism to shame, it became a labor issue, and she booted a big chunk of the newsroom. So now eight of the fired reporters have started up their own local news site, Santa Barbara Newsroom, to compete with the News-Press. Love it. (Thanks for the tip Darrien!)
5 Comments Add your own
1. Dan | April 4th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Thanks for posting this.
I’m not even in Santa Barbara and I enjoyed the
Karch Kiraly story. I hope they kick some serious
McCaw butt. I’ve been following the News Press story since the spring of 2006. She seems to be a very
strange person indeed.
Dan
2. David Johnson | April 5th, 2007 at 7:54 am
said it before, say it again: cutting in the newsroom is not only eating seed corn, it is planting seeds of competition. and if those seeds are talented, trained journalists with entrepreneurial inclinations, that is a wickedly volatile situation for short-sighted publishers and executives. food for thought: it may be cheaper for you to keep them on your payroll than to spawn competitors who have chips on their shoulders.
3. Anonymous | April 5th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Things web viewsers never say: “Having to type 28 characters to get to your website makes accessing it a ceremonial affair. It adds an air of exclusivity, as well, to know that others were not able to write such a long URL without typos.”
I’m waiting for http://www.thelowersusquehannavalleysinternetnewsroom.com.
4. Amanda | April 5th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Anonymous, most people with don’t type in the URL to get to a site, they search for it using MSN, Google, Yahoo, whatever is set as a search engine in their browser.
5. Dan | April 5th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
or we run our mouse over the type in the story,
copy and paste into the browser.
I don’t know about Windows, but with Macs you don’t need the www or the .com, you just type in cnn, or lostremote or seattletimes or newyorktimes
Dan
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