 Six reporters, Dawn Hobbs, Rob Kuznia, Barney McManigal, John Zant, Tom Schultz and Melissa Evans, were fired by the "News-Press" on February 5–6, 2007, for participating in a freeway overpass demonstration.They had displayed a large sign reading "Cancel Your Newspaper Today" during morning rush hour on February 2.McCaw held that the editors and reporters who quit did not want "goals to improve the quality of the paper, to have accurate unbiased reporting, and more local stories that readers want to read."