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I was walking out of church the morning of July 23 when I got Josh Molina’s text that Santa Barbara’s venerable daily newspaper had declared bankruptcy.
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William M. Macfadyen, founder, publisher and partner Bill Macfadyen Bill Macfadyen is the founder and publisher of Noozhawk.com, Santa Barbara’s freshest news and information source — and its only 24/7 professional news site. Commanding a staff of seven full-time professional journalists, three full-time sales representatives and an army of community contributors, he’s on a quest to figure out how to make online local news viable and sustainable. He was the co-founder and editor and publisher of the South Coast Beacon, a weekly community newspaper that made its debut in 2002, won the California Newspaper Publishers Association General Excellence Award the following year and went bust in 2005. Not having the sense to get a real job, he turned his attention to the Internet, where the overhead is lower and the optimism knows no boundaries. Bill moonlights as inaugural board co-chairman of the new Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce and a board member of the Santa Barbara Club, Santa Barbara Partners in Education and the Westmont College Foundation. He’s also a member of the Santa Barbara Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse’s Fighting Back Steering Committee. He has served as senior warden at All Saints By-the-Sea Episcopal Church, where he completed two separate terms as a Vestry member, and is a past board member of All Saints Parish School. He’s also a past member of the statewide organizing committee of Common Sense California, which is now part of the Davenport Institute for Public Engagement & Civic Leadership at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy. In 2008, Bill was named Entrepreneur of the Year by both the Goleta Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Santa Barbara Technology & Industry Association. In 2012, he received the national Journalism Education Association’s Friend of Scholastic Journalism Award in recognition of Noozhawk’s work with The Charger Account, the student news website at Dos Pueblos High School. He and Noozhawk are founding members of the Local Independent Online News Publishers Association (LION). He was a California Endowment Health Journalism Fellow (Class of 2011) at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, and was the architect of Prescription for Abuse, a six-month Noozhawk team project exploring the misuse and abuse of prescription medications in Santa Barbara County. Bill and his wife, Missy, live in Montecito with their latest Alaskan malamute, Sadie. They have three grown children, all of whom have worked for Noozhawk. Reach Bill at wmacfadyen@noozhawk.com and follow him on Twitter: @Noozhawk and Instagram: @bill.macfadyen Tom Bolton, executive editor and partner Tom Bolton Award-winning journalist Tom Bolton joined Noozhawk as executive editor in 2012 after more than 20 years of guiding newsroom operations for newspapers at each end of Santa Barbara County. From 2003 to early 2012, he served as vice president of news for Lee Central Coast Newspapers, leading the Santa Maria Times and supervising the Lompoc Record, the Santa Ynez Valley News and other local Lee publications. He previously served as publisher and editor of the weekly South Coast Beacon, which he helped establish, and as executive editor and managing editor of the Santa Barbara News-Press, where he spent much of his career prior to its sale by The New York Times. He also has worked for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo County and as a private consultant. Tom has a reputation throughout the region as a tough but fair editor, whose staffs consistently generate top-notch news coverage — in print and online. He has guided scores of investigative and in-depth projects on topics as varied as homelessness, wildfires, affordable housing, youth violence, earthquake risks, and the future of agriculture. Many of these projects have won awards at the state and national level. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from UC Santa Barbara, where he was editor in chief of The Daily Nexus student newspaper. He is a past board member of the California Society of Newspaper Editors, and also has been affiliated with the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the California Chicano News Media Association and other national media organizations. Tom and his wife, Joan, live in Goleta, and have two grown children. Reach Tom at tbolton@noozhawk.com, follow him on Twitter: @tombol or call him at 805.456.7267 Kim Clark, vice president of business development and partner Kim Clark Kim Clark is a proven sales and marketing leader with the ability to cultivate and build strong business relationships. She possesses more than 30 years of sales and marketing experience in the Santa Barbara community, and received her bachelor’s degree in English Literature from UC Santa Barbara. Before joining Noozhawk in 2012, she was division director for Office Team, a subsidiary of Robert Half International, and led her staff to be the top-producing team in the region. She previously was sales and marketing director at the Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce, and spent 14 years at the Santa Barbara News-Press, developing the company’s New Media Department in the 1990s and serving as online sales manager before leaving in the mid-2000s. Kim previously served as Santa Barbara Chapter board president of the National Association of Women Business Owners, is a board member of the Multimedia Arts & Design Academy at Santa Barbara High School, and is a past board member of Downtown Santa Barbara, and the Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers. She and her husband, Woodie, a retired United States Navy captain and a pilot for FedEx, live in Santa Barbara with their twin daughters, Brooke and Sierra. Reach Kim at kim.clark@noozhawk.com or call her at 805.456.7198 Giana Magnoli, managing editor Giana Magnoli Giana Magnoli has been covering Santa Barbara County news since 2009, when she joined Noozhawk as a reporter. She was named news editor in 2014 and became managing editor in 2015. In 2011 and 2013 she was selected as a California Endowment Health Journalism Fellow at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, and helped produce in-depth health reporting projects for Noozhawk. She is a member of the Solutions Journalism Network and was chosen for the 2020-21 cohort of the Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellowship. She graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo with a journalism degree and spent three years working at the Mustang Daily student newspaper and website. She also worked as a freelancer writer at the Pacific Coast Business Times. Reach Giana at gmagnoli@noozhawk.com and follow her on Twitter: @magnoli Janene Scully, North County editor Janene Scully Janene Scully joined the Noozhawk team in 2014 after working for the Santa Maria Times and its affiliated newspapers in northern Santa Barbara County for 23 years. Most recently she served as associate editor of the Times and managing editor of the Lompoc Record and Santa Ynez Valley News. An award-winning journalist, she grew up in San Luis Obispo County and earned her bachelor's degree in journalism from Fresno State University. Reach Janene at jscully@noozhawk.com and follow her on Twitter: @JaneneScully Barry Punzal, sports editor Barry Punzal Barry Punzal brings more than 30 years of experience in local sports journalism to Noozhawk. Before joining Noozhawk in 2016, he worked for five years at Presidio Sports, an online-only sports site that ceased publication at the end of 2015. While there, he covered the athletic teams at the area’s eight high schools and three colleges, as well as the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table and the Semana Nautica summer sports festival. Barry previously worked at the Santa Barbara News-Press, where he had several duties. He started as a copy editor and page designer in 1984, and later became the college soccer writer, covering the rise of UCSB men’s soccer. Barry held the position of assistant sports editor and became the sports editor in 2006. Barry
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