Wendy McCaw (née Petrak) is a businesswoman and the owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press, a newspaper that filed for bankruptcy on July 21, 2023.
She attended Stanford University, where she majored in history and met Craig McCaw during their sophomore year.
[citation needed] In 2000, McCaw purchased the Santa Barbara News-Press, one of California's oldest newspapers, from The New York Times for $100 million.
[1] In December 2006, McCaw sued Chapman University professor Susan Paterno over her article in the American Journalism Review that had criticized her management of the paper.
[1] On October 7, 2016, the Santa Barbara News-Press was the first newspaper in the United States to endorse Donald Trump for president during the 2016 elections.
[1] In April 2017, a federal judge ordered McCaw to offer reinstatement and around $2 million in back pay to former columnist Richard Mineards.