“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 [...]
The conference draft of the what had been referred to as the news media shield law (HB622) is really something quite different. It should properly be termed the Corporate News Media Minimal Protection Act, or something along those lines. It’s hollowed out protections, such as they are, will have only limited application. Who won’t get [...]
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“Try out “Churnalism” to avoid plagiarism and repackaged Press Releases” was the teaser on an email from the Sunlight Foundation this morning. In our Reporting Group at Sunlight, we know how important it is to get a story out on deadline. We also know that being “the first to break the news” in some newsrooms [...]
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