What the 2025 SPJ Awards say about Hawaiʻi journalism

While journalism as an industry has changed dramatically over the past decade, the spirit of the people practicing it—from established daily newspapers to independent blogs—continues to treat good journalism with mutual respect.

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Goodbyes and hellos: Who explains Hawaiʻi politics now?

Over the past several weeks, a series of articles in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Honolulu Civil Beat marked a quiet but consequential shift in who is interpreting Hawaiʻi politics for the public. Two farewells and one arrival point to a change not simply in political voices, but in how the state’s political narrative is being shaped and understood.

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