After more than 150 years of newsgathering, the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper Santa Barbara News-Press has posted its last online edition a month after the News-Press ceased publication of its print newspaper and went all-digital, the Los Angeles Times reported. The death knell for the once-mighty but long-floundering News-Press came in the form of a bankruptcy filing last week by Ampersand Publishing LLC, the entity by which the newspaper does business. Ampersand’s chapter 7 bankruptcy filing was authorized during a meeting “on or about” May 1, nearly three months before it was filed Friday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for California’s Central District, according to federal court records. The move also comes about three months after the newspaper relocated its operations and staff from the landmark building on Santa Barbara’s De la Guerra Plaza — where it had been housed for the last 101 years — to its printing plant in Goleta, the Santa Barbara Independent reported.
