Gannett’s Honolulu Advertiser today announced plans to layoff 54 employees, the same day Gannett announced dismal results for its second quarter. The layoffs were announced in a morning memo to all staff from publisher Lee Webber. As you know, the newspaper industry faces significant challenges right now. The Advertiser is not immune from them. Advertising [...]
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Former State Senator Anson Chong, who represented Makiki back in the 1970′s, died yesterday on the Big Island after a long struggle with cancer. Last month, Fern Forest Community honored him by observing Anson Chong Day in recognition of his contributions to the community, according to a story in the Hawaii Tribune Herald. “Years ago, [...]
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My first attempt to post earlier this morning was somehow gobbled up by WordPress, never to be seen again. More than a little disconcerting, for sure. But I’m trying again. Two stunners from today’s Star-Bulletin. First there was the correction: Belinda Aquino, University of Hawaii-Manoa Philippines Studies Center director, was given a lifetime achievement award [...]
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The Star-Bulletin followed today with Day 2 of Craig Gima’s series on those Sugar Bowl expenses. This folo included most of the elements missing yesterday. Today we learn more about records request, the emails received and not received, and even read at least one quote. And the story gets inside the behind the scenes debate, [...]
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Star-Bulletin reporter Craig Gima has a good story this morning concerning possible ethics violations by the Lingle administration in seeking Sugar Bowl tickets for certain insiders. First, although the story is about violations of the state’s ethics law, it doesn’t cite or quote from the statute. This leaves readers with only a vague sense of [...]
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Reading through the list of stories receiving awards from SPJ last night is a reminder that there’s a lot of good reporting going on here despite the woes of the news industry. Along that same line of thought, Liz Donovan’s Informaniac/Behind the News blog (one of those on my regular visit list) points to one [...]
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One suggestion that came my way yesterday is that Walter Dods move to an active role in Hawaiian Telcom as its Chairman was a defensive move to save his own investment and those of his friends who also put money into the buyout of the former Verizon Hawaii. A merger might be one way to [...]
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Just two items today. First, the story on the increased cost of public ambulance service is more complicated and potentially disruptive than reported yesterday by the Advertiser. The ‘Tiser story focused on the increased cost of ambulance service following the state’s Emergency Medical Services branch decision to drop its contracts with insurers. The story explained [...]
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