Fired Editor May Hold Key to News-Press Bias
On Tuesday, Bob Guiliano – the editor who was fired on Friday, January 26 for “performance-related” reasons (not for attending Anna Davison’s goodbye party after she was fired, as was first reported) – filed an unfair labor practice complaint with the National Labor Relations Board. Then on Wednesday, the Teamsters were talking about filing another one as well, this time because News-Press attorney David Millstein barged into a Tuesday night union meeting, which is allegedly against federal law.
CORRECTION: The date of this protest, which is being organized by the community and not the former employees, is February 21, not February 14 as first reported. There will be a Valentine’s Day protest on February 14, but it will be the normal sort of protest that’s been happening for the past week. For many Santa Barbarans who once enjoyed reading an informative daily newspaper called the 
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It was the first of what will be a daily affair: former News-Press reporters – including the six fired within 24 hours on Monday and Tuesday – stood together in solidarity and marched in front of the newspaper’s headquarters while chanting “McCaw Obey the Law” repeatedly. This will be repeated, and they’re hoping for more community support, for the rest of the week, from 3 to 5 p.m. in De la Guerra Plaza. (Noisemakers are encouraged.)
It’s been confirmed as of 10:30 a.m. Tuesday morning: News-Press reporters Melissa Evans and Tom Schultz (pictured) were just fired, and the sports’ department’s senior writer John Zant is likely next in line.
The corner of Carrillo and Santa Barbara streets must be one of the busiest in town for car traffic, but it’s oddly lacking in pedestrians. Can this be the deli that changes all of that? We hope so.
