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The Santa Barbara Times newsroom. These are the working journalists behind the paper: the editors who assign and check every story, the beat reporters who cover the South Coast, and the photographer in the field.

Beats: James Corcoran (Newsroom operations, budgets and public money), Julia Sandoval (Santa Barbara City Council, elections, housing policy), Nathan Reyes (Board of Supervisors, county land use, oil and energy), Olivia Tran (Airport, tourism, development, the local economy), Samuel Ortiz (Harbor, beaches, water, wildlife, the Channel), Hannah Lindqvist (Neighborhoods, arts, festivals, civic life), Rachel Adler (Schools, UCSB, students and families), Peter Novak (General assignment), Grace Park (Visual journalism), Daniel Ferreira (Editorials, columns, letters), Catherine Bell (Accuracy, corrections, style), Maya Chen (Newsroom management, assignment), Wade Mercer (Public records, investigations), Diane Cooper (Courts, police, fire), Vera Aldana (Housing, development, affordability), Paula Brennan (Health, hospitals, public health), Doris Fenn (Santa Ynez Valley, wine industry), Tess Faraday (UC Santa Barbara, campus and students), Greta Lund (Arts, music, theater, books), Edna Birch (Trails, Los Padres National Forest, outdoor recreation), Dennis Rook (Data, public records, analysis), Chris Dalton (Visual journalism), Olive Reyes (Opinion columns), Flora Bennett (The Morning Tide newsletter), Tilda Brandt (Audience, community engagement).