Owner of Santa Barbara paper sues AJR writer
The unpleasentness at the Santa Barbara newspaper has spilled into court. Publisher Wendy McCaw is suing a Chapman University professor who wrote an article in American Journalism Review detailing disputes at the paper that have led to a number of resignations by key employees.
SPJ awarded some of the employees ethics awards this summer http://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=614.
The Los Angeles Times has the story about the lawsuit:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-mccaw19dec19,1,7280559.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california