It was officially announced yesterday that Ben Wood, Helen Altonn and Mary Adamski are leaving the newspaper as of July 30 after agreeing to voluntary buyouts that are said to include the maximum severance called for in the Guild contract. I’m told Frank Bridgewater pointed out that between the three, they have more than 150 [...]
Tags: Black Press Ltd·David Black·Honolulu Star-Advertiser·Oahu Publications
The Star-Bulletin and Advertiser may be history, and hundreds of former employees now out of work, but those who didn’t get 60 days notice of their terminations apparently can’t just get on with their lives. Federal law, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, requires a large employer like Oahu Publications to give employees [...]
Tags: David Black·Honolulu Advertiser·Honolulu Star-Bulletin
And now it begins. The monopoly is here. Clients that formerly had printing done by the old MidWeek presses are now hearing what their new rates will be after the Star-Advertiser consolidation. I’m told Honolulu Weekly, which has been printed by Oahu Publications, was told that its rates would be going up somewhere in the [...]
Tags: David Black·Honolulu Advertiser·Honolulu Star-Advertiser·Honolulu Star-Bulletin
The Newspaper Guild reports it has gotten nowhere in bargaining with Gannett over the effects of the upcoming sale of the Honolulu Advertiser. Both the Hawaii Newspaper Guild and the ILWU have filed grievances against the company for transferring the severance pay obligation from the Advertiser to Oahu Publications Inc. Other unions are expected to [...]
Tags: David Black·Gannett·Hawaii Newspaper Guild·Honolulu Advertiser·Oahu Publications
Things must be hectic in Star-Bulletin owner David Black’s world these days as he moves ahead with simultaneous bids for the Honolulu Advertiser and the newspapers of CanWest Global Communications from his home base in Victoria. The CanWest bidding is particularly incestuous, at least as reported by the Toronto Globe and Mail. According to the [...]
Tags: David Black
Advertiser business writer Rick Daysog reported yesterday on a key investor backing the Star-Bulletin’s recently announced purchase of Gannett’s Honolulu Advertiser. In yesterday’s Advertiser, Daysog identified the investor as Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. of Toronto, which will also name a director to sit on the board of the company formed to operate the new paper [...]
Tags: David Black·Gannett·John Temple
