The Pacific Coast Business Times, a business weekly newspaper based in Santa Barbara, Calif., is losing three of its staffers, reports editor and founder Henry Dubroff.
Marlize van Romburgh, managing editor, will be attending law school in the fall in the Bay Area at either Santa Clara or UC Hastings. She has been at the paper since June 2009. She graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo with a bachelor’s in journalism and a minor in economics.
Christine de la Cruz, staff writer, is taking a position with the UC Santa Barbara chancellor’s office — she will be working directly with Chancellor Henry Yang, also known as “the other Henry,” said Dubroff. She covers tourism, health care and agribusiness. She also worked on the copy desk of Newsday and as a multiplatform editor at the Los Angeles Times.
Stephen Nellis, tech editor, is actively job hunting in the Bay Area and hopes to land a position covering the technology industry so that he can join van Romburgh on her new adventure. Nellis is a Missouri graduate and also covers law and politics for the paper.
“The idea is for me to mentor my eventual replacement for a few weeks/months,” said Nellis in an email to Talking Biz News. “I’ve been here six years so I have a lot of beat knowledge to transfer over.”
