Editing Santa Barbara, California (section)

===Newspapers===
The [[Santa Barbara Independent]] is Santa Barbara's only adjudicated, general circulation newspaper. It publishes a print edition weekly on Thursdays and claims an audited print readership of 68,000.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Advertise |url=https://www.independent.com/advertise/ |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=The Santa Barbara Independent |language=en-US}}</ref> It also publishes as an online daily.

The ''[[Santa Barbara News-Press]],'' a historic former daily which traced its founding to 1868, filed for bankruptcy on July 21, 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Yamamura |first=Jean |date=2023-07-23 |title='Santa Barbara News-Press' Files for Bankruptcy |url=https://www.independent.com/2023/07/23/santa-barbara-news-press-files-for-bankruptcy/ |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=The Santa Barbara Independent |language=en-US}}</ref> The closure followed nearly two decades of internal turmoil and steeply declining local readership precipitated by the 2006 "[[Santa Barbara News-Press controversy|News-Press Mess]]" under the ownership of [[Wendy McCaw]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Welsh |first=Nick |date=2023-08-17 |title=Death of a Daily |url=https://www.independent.com/2023/08/16/death-of-a-daily/ |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=The Santa Barbara Independent |language=en-US}}</ref> The controversy received national attention and became the subject of the 2008 documentary, "Citizen McCaw".<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Farhi |first1=Paul |last2=Lamothe |first2=Dan |last3=Birnbaum |first3=Michael |last4=Fowler |first4=Geoffrey A. |last5=Frankel |first5=Todd |last6=Natanson |first6=Hannah |last7=Bump |first7=Philip |last8=Voght |first8=Kara |date=2023-08-03 |title=She paid a fortune for her town's paper. Years of turmoil followed. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/03/wendy-mccaw-santa-barbara-news-press/ |access-date=2025-03-24 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Tyler |first=Sam |title=Citizen McCaw |date=2009-04-13 |type=Documentary |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1398971/ |access-date=2025-03-24 |others=Travis Armstrong, Ann Louise Bardach, Barney Brantingham |publisher=SB Docs}}</ref> As of January, 2025 a nonprofit overseen by the [[Arizona State University]] Media Enterprise had acquired rights to the News-Press and announced intention to revive the paper.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Yamamura |first=Jean |date=2025-01-23 |title=The 'Santa Barbara News-Press' to Rise from the Grave |url=https://www.independent.com/2025/01/23/the-santa-barbara-news-press-to-rise-from-the-grave/ |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=The Santa Barbara Independent |language=en-US}}</ref>

Santa Barbara is also served by two online-only news outlets: 
* ''[[Edhat]]'', a privately owned community news site founded in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Edhat About — Santa Barbara's Community Hub |url=https://www.edhat.com/about-edhat/ |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=edhat |language=en-US}}</ref>
* ''[[Noozhawk]]'', an online news site founded in 2007

In addition, the business journal ''[[Pacific Coast Business Times]]'', covers Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-08-24 |title=About the Pacific Coast Business Times {{!}} Pacific Coast Business Times |url=https://www.pacbiztimes.com/contact-us/ |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=www.pacbiztimes.com |language=en-US}}</ref>