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The ''Santa Barbara News-Press'' controversy refers to a series of events starting after businesswoman Wendy P. McCaw bought the ''Santa Barbara News-Press'' from The New York Times Company in 2000. McCaw proceeded to oversee some of the newspaper's content, and some news editors and reporters felt her intervention compromised the paper's neutrality and credibility. The tensions came to a head on July 6, 2006, when five editors and a columnist resigned. They and three others staffers later received an "Ethics in Journalism" award from the Society of Professional Journalists,〔 and the entire editorial staff was awarded the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism as a result of their actions in the dispute.〔 The controversy led to at least three civil suits and one criminal investigation, as well as to the attempted unionization of the editorial workers at the Santa Barbara, California, newspaper. ==The July 6, 2006, incident== In the five years after McCaw bought the newspaper from the New York Times Company, five publishers and several editors resigned or were fired. Newsroom employees complained that McCaw unduly influenced reporting of the news, while she contended that the supervision of content was her responsibility as owner.〔(Susan Paterno, "Santa Barbara Smackdown," ''American Journalism Review,'' December–January 2006, ) (archived in WebCite on June 4, 2007)〕 On July 6, 2006, five newsroom employees resigned, blaming McCaw's interference with editorial news judgment. They were Editor Jerry Roberts, columnist Barney Brantingham, managing editor George Foulsham, deputy managing editor Don Murphy, business editor Michael Todd and metro editor Jane Hulse. Roberts was escorted out of the building by the then-acting publisher Travis K. Armstrong.〔 McCaw's perspective was that the editors had allowed an intolerable level of personal opinion and agendas to influence their editorial choices.〔〔(See the McCaw column, ''Santa Barbara News-Press,'' July 25, 2006 )〕 The proximate cause of the controversy included McCaw's intervention to halt the publication of a story about the drunk driving conviction of acting publisher Armstrong. Another dispute involved her reprimand of a reporter and three editors for publishing the address where actor Rob Lowe planned to build a "dream home."〔(James Rainey, "5 editors, columnist, quit in Santa Barbara," ''Los Angeles Times,'' July 7, 2006, page A1. ''(A library card may be required to access this link.)'' )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Santa Barbara News-Press controversy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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