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Bill Macfadyen
Founder and publisher
Unable to do math and realizing the only way he’d ever patrol center field for the Dodgers was as a security guard, Bill Macfadyen settled on the one career he knew had comfort, longevity and stability: newspaper copy editor.
So that didn’t work out as planned.
Now, as the founder and publisher of Noozhawk.com, he’s having the time of his life amid the chaos and cacophony of the World Wide Web. Noozhawk is Santa Barbara’s freshest news and information source — and its only 24/7 professional news site.
Commanding a staff of seven full-time professional journalists, three sales representatives and an army of community contributors, Bill is on a quest to figure out how to make online local news viable and sustainable. So far, so good.
Outside his virtual reality, Bill and his wife are new empty-nesters ... except for their 115-pound Alaskan malamute.
Articles
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<p>What do you do if you want to properly dispose of expired or unused prescription medications? It’s not the easiest thing to do here.</p>
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<p>It all started with toxicology reports from the Santa Barbara County Coroner's Office.</p>
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<p>Thanks to this year's California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships, professional hyperlocal news outlets have added new insights and perspectives to their reporting on health issues.</p>
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<p>Addressing an issue as complex as prescription drug abuse among elderly adults starts with educating the public.</p>
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<p>Antioch University Santa Barbara has long been committed to understanding addiction and developing methods to effectively treat it. Three programs prove the point.</p>
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<p>Because of San Francisco’s pharmaceutical dropoff pilot program, residents can now dispose of their medicines — for free — at 16 pharmacies and five police stations in the city. </p>
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<p>With an increase in anxiety and stress, counselor Lacey Johnson said she has seen a rise in the use and mixture of powerful and dangerous substances among some students at UCSB.</p>
<p>How an online-only local news site learned as much about itself as it did about its topic of drug abuse</p>
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<p>In Santa Barbara County, there were 111 drug- and alcohol-related deaths in 2009, the most recent year of complete data, and county Coroner’s Office records show the presence of prescription medications<span style="color: green; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;"></span> in many o
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<p>One of Dr. Joe Blum’s patients was an Army colonel in the Vietnam War who suffered multiple wounds and endured dozens of surgeries. From then on, Blum decided he would do whatever is reasonable in the best interest of his patients.</p>