Noozhawk
{{Short description|Online newspaper in California, United States}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2024}}
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| name = Noozhawk
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| parent = Noozhawk
| type = News
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| launch_date = {{start date|2007|10|16}}
| founder = William Macfadyen
| location_city = 23 Hitchcock Way #103
Santa Barbara, California
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| area_served = Santa Barbara County
| key_people = William Macfadyen (Partner/Publisher)
Tom Bolton (Partner/Executive Editor)
Kim Clark (Partner/VP-Business Development)
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| url = {{URL|www.noozhawk.com}}
| language = English
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| current_status = Active
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Noozhawk is an online newspaper that provides coverage for Santa Barbara County, California.{{cite news|last1=Grubisich|first1=Tom|title=How Santa Barbara's Noozhawk Zeroes In on News and Profits|url=http://streetfightmag.com/2014/08/14/how-santa-barbara-noozhawk-zeroes-in-on-news-and-profits/|accessdate=June 29, 2016|agency=Street Fight|date=August 14, 2014}} 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. It gained further potential audience with the July 2023 bankruptcy of the Santa Barbara News-Press.{{Cite news |last=Sainato |first=Michael |date=July 24, 2023 |title=Longest-running southern California newspaper closes after 168 years |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/24/santa-barbara-news-press-bankruptcy |access-date=March 9, 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |last=Yamamura |first=Jean |date=March 9, 2024 |title='Santa Barbara News-Press' Online Assets to Be Sold |url=https://www.independent.com/2024/03/08/santa-barbara-news-press-online-assets-nearly-sold/ |access-date=March 9, 2024 |website=The Santa Barbara Independent |language=en-US}}
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.{{cite news|last1=Meagher|first1=Chris|date=January 3, 2013|title=Peaks and Valleys for S.B. Media (archive)|work=Santa Barbara Independent|url=http://www.independent.com/news/2013/jan/03/peaks-and-valleys-sb-media/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408073914/http://www.independent.com/news/2013/jan/03/peaks-and-valleys-sb-media/|accessdate=June 29, 2016|archive-date=April 8, 2018}} 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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