I was surprised to be approached by Sterling Higa of Hawaii Business Magazine to join a select group of news observers commenting on the future of local news. My role was to speak for independent journalism. I guess that means “unpaid”? Whatever.
In any case, his story appeared online yesterday, and will be distributed in the October issue of the print version. Use the link below.
The Future of Local News Isn’t What it Used to Be
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All I can say is thank goodness Civil Beat came along when it did and thank goodness it absorbed some good S-A reporters as well. I enjoy reading your articles as well.
Thanks for fighting the good fight.
Thanks for printing this excellent article.
Fascinating article! I always think of the music industry and how technology disrupted it until it figured out how to use it. Now an artist can release a single, a few songs, or a double album based on how many good songs they have ready, not some arbitrary number. That doesn’t really work for a hard copy paper, you can’t have a 30 page edition one day and a ten pager the next day. That’s partially why Civil Beat has consistently higher quality than SA, some days they don’t publish all that much content. And I’m fine with that!
Pretty sure Ian the description regarding the 3 daily neighbor island newspapers that are now free and geared mostly towards the hotels is 1000% incorrect. How in the world would a “reporter” get something so completely wrong? How much of the rest of this is incorrect? He didn’t cite his source of information but that description is laughable…….
Also, the SA gets panned for converting their reporting to digital on Saturday but Civil Beat is digital and that works just fine? Sorry, but I just see a lot of so called “experts” who actually know very little about the subject they are referencing.
“Oahu Publications – now the parent of Midweek, the Star-Advertiser, the two daily newspapers on Hawai‘i Island and the one on Kaua‘i – has diversified into free ad-driven publications and publications produced for customers like hotels.”
The sentence says that the company, Oahu Publications, has diversified into free ad-driven publications and publications produced for customers like hotels. It says nothing about the pricing of the newspapers that company owns. It might be worthwhile to read critically before you accuse a writer of publishing incorrect information.
And here, I am jealous of your wealthy partnership with a tenured Professor, while being the fellow Baby Boomer “land rich cash poor” generation. Here, I was thinking of asking for tenured dating / marital assistance. Of course being a kept man is challenging, but at least you like Cat’s!