I was sitting in Santa Barbara Junior High’s Marjorie Luke Theatre on Friday when I started receiving text messages that there was a federal order directing Sable Offshore to resume oil operations. You can read the full story below.
I started writing the article from my phone while in the theater, right before the show and during intermission, as my sources texted me information. The breaking news story was one of our most-read since the News-Press relaunched in January.
I was happy to write the story, and it made me even more optimistic about the future of the News-Press. I was able to publish a story quickly, even while watching a theater show, and people found our story immediately.
What we write and publish matters. Right now, we have a full-time newsroom of one — that’s me — and we are really only just beginning to show the power of the News-Press and its commitment to this community.
The Santa Barbara News-Press is close to hiring two general assignment reporters to held build our news team. Eventually, we intend to have reporters focused on beats such as the environment, immigration, business and other topics, including North County.
Our new staff will allow us to expand our reporting and dig deeper into topics — and to spread our wings.
Our more extensive reporting might mean a multipart series, or an in-depth profile or a longer story that explains not only that something happened, but why it happened.
We know you have ideas and thoughts on the types of stories that need to be told. Let us know.
Send us your ideas for in-depth and investigatve reporting to jmolina@newspress.com. We can’t wait to introduce you to our new team members.
Joshua Molina
News-Press Editor
Top read of the day
Immigration crackdown could force hundreds of Santa Barbara County families from subsidized housing
By Tom Schultz • Special for the Santa Barbara News-Press
More than 1,300 people across the county, including nearly 600 children, are at risk of housing loss if a nationwide ban on undocumented immigrants in federally subsidized housing takes effect.
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Local voices
“President Trump’s catastrophic move to override State environmental laws by invoking the Defense Production Act is another step on the slippery slope toward authoritarianism.”
— 37th District Assemblyman Gregg Hart
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