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Text Box: Cancel the News-Press!
Submitted by Hun Taing

Text Box: A "NOTE TO READERS" FROM THE STAFF,
Please support us, the organized staff of the Santa Barbara News-Press newsroom, in our effort to restore journalistic integrity and negotiate a fair working contract.
We voted to unionize in a landslide election. But Wendy McCaw refuses our victory.
We need your help. After giving the ownership ample time to bargain in good faith with no response, we ask you to . . . CANCEL NOW!
From their website: http://www.savethenewspress.com/

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PRESS RELEASE
To: All Media
From: The Organized Newsroom Staff

We are proud to announce we received the Independent’s Local Heroes 2006 Award for Courage this last week.

We continue our demand that News-Press owner and co-publisher Wendy McCaw BUILD BACK THE WALL between opinion and news.
We also demand that McCaw stop attacking her own newsroom. For five months, the newsroom staff has been working in an atmosphere of intimidation and betrayal, and 30 journalists have been forced out or fired.

Most recently, McCaw fired Senior Writer Melinda Burns, a 21-year veteran at the paper and a respected journalist with a large community following. Nearly 700 people have signed an online petition for her reinstatement, and we join them in their demands.
McCaw must BRING BACK MELINDA BURNS.

Finally, we demand that McCaw start negotiating a fair employment contract with us. Our first priority is to restore journalistic integrity to a sadly diminished newspaper.

Two months ago, we voted 33-6 to join the Teamsters, but McCaw is challenging the
results.

For more information go to: http://wwwwww.savethenewspress.com/