We stopped by today to take a look at what is being offered for sale in Saturday’s auction of the remains of the Honolulu Advertiser. Frankly, walking through the building that formerly housed both the Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin during the years of their joint operating agreement was sad. What’s left–lots of used cubicles, [...]
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
Bloggers who produce the long list of “public blogs” for the Honolulu Advertiser were told yesterday that they should learn in the next week whether their blogs will be invited to continue in the new Honolulu Star-Advertiser, the newspaper that will be a combination of the Star-Bulletin and Advertiser. This is the message sent by [...]
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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 [...]
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The lawsuit has been dismissed. Former Advertiser deputy editorial page editor Pati Poblete failed to sustain the burden necessary to have a chance to show she was a victim of discrimination. But documents and sworn statements made during the initial stages of the litigation nonetheless provide some interesting items. None have been tested through a [...]
