Noozhawk Explained

Noozhawk
Parent:Noozhawk
Type:News
Founder:William Macfadyen
Location City:23 Hitchcock Way #103
Santa Barbara, California
Area Served:Santa Barbara County
Key People:William Macfadyen (Partner/Publisher)
Tom Bolton (Partner/Executive Editor)
Kim Clark (Partner/VP-Business Development)
Language:English
Current Status:Active

Noozhawk is an online newspaper that provides coverage for Santa Barbara County, California.[1] While initially focused on the greater Santa Barbara area, Noozhawk expanded its coverage to the northern part of the county in the summer of 2014.[1] It gained further potential audience with the July 2023 bankruptcy of the Santa Barbara News-Press.[2] [3]

History

In 2012, Noozhawk celebrated its 5th anniversary and hired Tom Bolton, a former reporter and editor with the Santa Barbara News-Press and Santa Maria Times, to be executive editor.[4] By the first quarter of 2020, the website was averaging more than 1.8 million page views per month, according to Quantcast.

Notes and References

  1. News: Grubisich. Tom. How Santa Barbara's Noozhawk Zeroes In on News and Profits. 29 June 2016. Street Fight. 14 August 2014.
  2. News: Sainato . Michael . 2023-07-24 . Longest-running southern California newspaper closes after 168 years . 2024-03-09 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  3. Web site: Yamamura . Jean . 2024-03-09 . 'Santa Barbara News-Press' Online Assets to Be Sold . 2024-03-09 . The Santa Barbara Independent . en-US.
  4. News: Meagher. Chris. 3 January 2013. Peaks and Valleys for S.B. Media (archive). Santa Barbara Independent. https://web.archive.org/web/20180408073914/http://www.independent.com/news/2013/jan/03/peaks-and-valleys-sb-media/. 29 June 2016. 2018-04-08.