Today’s newsletter is presented by Esparza Law Group.
When we set out to reimagine our hometown news site a little over six months ago, we made a promise to rebuild excellent local journalism for Santa Barbara County.
That meant a commitment to reinvigorate our entire local journalism landscape from the bottom up. A hometown news organization that invests in homegrown talent.
We know that excellent journalism starts with excellent journalists.
And excellent journalists start as (paid) interns.
Today we are proud to introduce the Sara Miller McCune News-Press Summer Fellows program, which puts six paid reporting fellows on the beat in our community this summer.
This program is made possible by the extraordinary support of local academic publishing house Sage Publishing, which has provided funding in honor of its founder, longtime Central Coast publisher and philanthropist Sara Miller McCune.
We would like to thank Sage Publishing and Sara Miller McCune for this transformative gift to strengthen local news.
These student and early-career journalists will gain irreplaceable real-world reporting experience while covering many of our community’s most pressing issues.
Read about each of our six impressive fellows in Josh’s story today.
Will Belfiore
News-Press General Manager
Top read of the day
Santa Barbara County transportation officials tee up more than a quarter billion dollars for projects through 2031
By Tom Schultz • Santa Barbara News-Press
The Measure A sales tax revenue will fund regional and local projects that include Highway 101 widening, bike paths and street maintenance
Santa Barbara News-Press thanks our corporate sponsors. Find out more about sponsorships and advertising opportunities here.
7 stories people are talking about
Local voices
‘Maybe that is what Memorial Day asks of us — not happiness, exactly, but remembrance honest enough to hold sorrow and gratitude in the same breath.’
— Lynn Montgomery
Santa Barbara News-Press thanks our corporate sponsors. Find out more about sponsorships and advertising opportunities here.
Must watch
