Noozhawk

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Noozhawk
Noozhawk Logo.jpg
Type of site
News
Available inEnglish
Headquarters
23 Hitchcock Way #103
Santa Barbara, California
Area served Santa Barbara County
Founder(s) William Macfadyen
Key peopleWilliam Macfadyen (Partner/Publisher)
Tom Bolton (Partner/Executive Editor)
Kim Clark (Partner/VP-Business Development)
Parent Noozhawk
URL www.noozhawk.com
LaunchedOctober 16, 2007 (2007-10-16)
Current statusActive

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]

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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.

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References

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  2. Sainato, Michael (2023-07-24). "Longest-running southern California newspaper closes after 168 years". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2024-03-09.
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  4. Meagher, Chris (3 January 2013). "Peaks and Valleys for S.B. Media (archive)". Santa Barbara Independent. Archived from the original on 2018-04-08. Retrieved 29 June 2016.