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6th editor resigns at Santa Barbara paper

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Sunday, 09 July 2006
[b]6th editor resigns at Santa Barbara paper[/b] By GREG RISLING, Associated Press Writer Fri Jul 7, 10:32 PM ET LOS ANGELES - Turmoil at the Santa Barbara News-Press continued Friday with the resignation of a sixth editor. Five top editors and a longtime columnist quit earlier this week, accusing the owner of undermining the newspaper's credibility. Sports editor Gerry Spratt, who worked at the paper for eight years, stepped down Friday because he felt management didn't value his department and had cut two reporting positions in the last two years. "Losing two writers was a big deal," Spratt said. "I didn't want to be part of an institution that had abandoned journalism." Spratt's move follows the departures of editor Jerry Roberts, managing editor George Foulsham and deputy managing editor Don Murphy, as well as the business and metro editors and a longtime columnist. The editors said owner Wendy McCaw and her closest associates had become meddlesome. They cited two stories that they believe compromised the paper's ethics and pointed to the appointment of Travis Armstrong as acting publisher at the same time he was the editorial page editor. "It's been a lot of little things that have cast long shadows," said Michael Todd, the business editor who resigned. "The newsroom sanctity has been breached. We don't think it is or can be an ethical newsroom in the future." McCaw's spokesman, Sam Singer, said the resignations were due to differences of opinion about the paper's direction. "She wants stronger and more local news coverage," Singer said. "They had different interests and chose to resign." The newspaper acknowledged the resignations Friday in a published note to readers, signed by Armstrong. The News-Press, founded 1855, has a daily circulation of about 41,000. McCaw, a local philanthropist active on environmental and animal rights issues, bought the paper through her company Ampersand Holdings LLC from The New York Times Co. in 2000. Joe Cole, the newspaper's president and publisher, retired in April, and McCaw appointed herself and her fiance, Arthur von Weisenberger, acting co-publishers. The editors who resigned cited a story dealing with Armstrong's drunken-driving arrest as an example of meddling. The newspaper ran a story about his arrest in May over the objections of ownership, Murphy said. A follow-up story was scrapped, he said. "I loved the job, I loved the paper," said Murphy, who spent 19 years at the News-Press. "I just felt I had to leave." Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060708/ap_on_re_us/editors_resign

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