Someone at the Star-Advertiser had a Monday, judging from the breaking news posted at 1:24 p.m. Here’s an excerpt. Drivers must go Bluetooth-less under bill signed by governor By Amy Busek POSTED: 01:24 p.m. HST, May 20, 2013 LAST UPDATED: 01:44 p.m. HST, May 20, 2013 Hawaii drivers no longer may use hands-free electronic devices [...]
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Back in the day, “seven words you can never say on television” were made famous by comedian George Carlin and became the centerpiece of a landmark 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision. A transcript of Carlin’s monologue can be found here. Those seven words are still causing problems, but the list has apparently expanded exponentially. At [...]
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“Who Would Kill a Monk Seal?” That’s what writer Jon Mooallem asks in a long article published in today’s New York Times. The story earned a notice in Muck Rack Daily, “where you can get a snapshot of what journalists around the world are reading, thinking and commenting on right now.” Asking an important question, [...]
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Did you catch the story in yesterday’s Honolulu Star-Advertiser which touted a “nearly 28 percent jump” in “total average weekday circulation,” whatever that might be? The circulation data are from the Alliance for Audited Media, formerly known as the Audit Bureau of Circulations. According to the S-A story: The Star-Advertiser’s total average circulation includes 125,726 [...]
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There’s probably going to be a lot of competition for this honor! COLUMBIA, MISSOURI – Investigative Reporters & Editors, Inc. is launching a new award – dubbed the Golden Padlock – recognizing the most secretive publicly-funded agency or person in the United States. It is calling on journalists and the public for worthy nominees. “This [...]
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I finally got around to following-up on my post last month concerning the failure to use details from arbitration proceedings involving public employee unions in reporting on state and county wage increases (“Public again left to guess about arbitrators’ decisions“). In my Hawaii Monitor column in Civil Beat this week, I dug through the arbitrators’ [...]
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A small “movers & shakes” news brief in West Hawaii Today confirmed that David Bock, editor of the Hawaii Tribune-Herald, took over “day-to-day operations of the newsroom” of WHT on April 25, the same day longtime editor Reed Flickinger was laid off. Bock will be the “roving news director” managing the two newspapers on opposite [...]
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Stephens Media, the union-busting owner of the Hawaii Tribune-Herald, is back at it again. In the latest chapter of a long running saga of labor law violations, the Tribune-Herald is stalling payments to two journalists previously ordered by the National Labor Relations Board, according to a release from the Pacific Media Workers Guild, which now [...]
