Saturday, April 09, 2005
From Ilind.Net:
April 9, 2005 - Saturday
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Hawaii Island Journal, published and distributed on the Big Island, is apparently up for sale. It looks like another opportunity for Gannett to continue it's[sic ] news consolidation, but Honolulu Weekly publisher Laurie Carlson is also said to be trying to negotiate a deal, a move probably be more politically acceptable to HIJ publisher Lane Wick and the newspaper's regular readers.
Speaking of the Big Island, could it be true that West Hawaii Today is the second largest revenue generator in the Stephens Media Group chain, with only the Las Vegas Review-Journal bringing in more? Meanwhile, cross-island "sister" publication, the Hawaii Tribune-Herald, continues to be mired in acrimonious contract negotiations with the Newspaper Guild. There are rumblings of threats by Stephens' negotiators to close down the unionized Trib and simply expand the non-union WHT, not the first time these have been heard.
And Pacific Business News has announced that they're moving their printing from MidWeek to the Advertiser, which will add more color to their look. I suppose that frees up more press time for the new MidWeek weekend edition, but the revenue loss probably still hurts.
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I'll add my comments as I find out more.
# posted by Brandon : 7:50 AM
