Marilyn McMahon, a Santa Barbara Information-Press options author and a fixture on the now-defunct paper for 48 years, died at her residence throughout from the Mission on August 24.
McMahon started her Information-Press profession in 1975 and filed her final story in Could. After a foul fall that month, her household stated, she nonetheless started speaking about returning to work, however that was earlier than Wendy McCaw, the disgraced Information-Press proprietor and co-publisher, filed for chapter on July 21.
McMahon was born Marilyn Kwiatkowski in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 8, 1930. She obtained a Bachelor of Science diploma in secondary training from the College of Wisconsin in 1952 and taught highschool English for 23 years, largely in Santa Barbara. However she liked working on the Information-Press greatest, within the days when the paper was a dynamic expression of neighborhood life. McMahon turned identified for her profiles of movers and shakers, celeb actors, e book authors, cooks, politicians, and TV personalities, and she or he spotlighted the accomplishments of on a regular basis people, too. Her Rolodex contained the telephone numbers of 450 folks.
After 5 prime editors resigned from the paper in the summertime of 2006, alleging that McCaw was interfering in information gathering and reporting, McMahon joined the Teamsters and threw her help behind the newsroom effort to acquire a union contract. McCaw by no means signed one, and dozens of reporters and editors stop or had been fired beneath her punitive regime. McMahon stayed on, declaring herself to be the face of the resistance in what was left of the newsroom. Ultimately, she outlasted the paper by 5 weeks.
