Getting both sides of the story
Steve Ainsley, now retired, was the Publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press and the co-founder of the Economic Community Project twenty years ago. He now serves as the
Chair of Cottage Health’s Board. He and Mark covered a wide range of topics including his thoughts about publishing, the Spotlight backstory, investigative journalism and others.
Root out what’s not right.”
Topics included;
- His history working for the New York Times.
- Santa Barbara, Tampa and as Publisher of the Boston Globe (7 papers in total)
- The backstory of Spotlight, Steve came to the paper 2 years after the story broke.
- His thoughts on the role of Publisher v the Editor
- The watershed moment for Media
- How the business model changed, which changed the industry
- A deep dive into investigative journalism
- What’s the highest award a paper can get? Is it worth it?
- The Misson of your local, community paper
- Where do millennials fit into this new publishing world?
- People do read the local paper (still)
- What if you want a career in journalism, what traits should you have?
- Innate curiosity
- A real desire to share what you’ve observed
- Get a charge by how much impact you make in the community
- The Economic Community Project – started in 1993
- Background and history of the project
- Sl-no growth citizenry and politics
- How you achieve success in community efforts – invite the contrarians
- His tenure at Cottage Health
- His take on Healthcare and the Mission of Cottage
- How you build partnerships to manifest these large community agendas
