Santa Barbara Daily Sound
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The Santa Barbara Daily Sound is a daily newspaper in Santa Barbara, California that is published six days a week. It is distributed through newspaper racks and in stores, coffee shops, restaurants, schools and major workplaces. The founder and publisher is Jeramy Gordon, former managing editor of the Palo Alto Daily News. Gordon was 23 when he founded the paper.
The Daily Sound published its first color edition on September 11, 2006.
The Daily Sound launched its Saturday edition September 8, 2007
The Daily Sound launched home delivery on April 29, 2008
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[edit] Legal Issues
Less than four months after publishing its first edition, the Santa Barbara Daily Sound received a letter from David Millstein, a San Francisco-based lawyer for the Santa Barbara News-Press, claiming that the Daily Sound's banner looked too much like the News-Press'[1] and that it had to be changed. Gordon said that not only did the News-Press attorney demand a change in the look of the Daily Sound banner, but asked that it consider a name change, perhaps to the Los Angeles Daily Sound.
In late June and early July of 2007, Santa Barbara County Public Defender Karen Atkins issues three subpoenas to Daily Sound employees,[2] including Editor and Publisher Jeramy Gordon, demanding they turn over all photographs in the paper's possession depicting a March 14, 2007 gang melee that left a 15-year-old dead and 14-year-old charged with his murder. The Daily Sound refused to hand over the photos citing the First Amendment and California's Shield Law,[3] but eventually gave in amid growing legal costs and possible fines that would likely shut down the paper.[4]
[edit] Honors
- The Pacific Coast Business Times listed the Daily Sound in the Number 4 spot of the Top 10 companies to watch in 2007.
- California State Assembly Member Pedro Nava recognized the Daily Sound with an Assembly Certificate of Recognition on their 1-year anniversary, March 23, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Santa Barbara Daily Sound official Web site
- Peninsula Press Club write-up about the Daily Sound
- Peninsula Press Club "Publisher Delivers New Daily"
- Free-Daily.com "Santa Barbara Free Daily Adds Saturday"
