‘Catastrophic’: Almost Half of O’ahu Newspaper Jobs Cut
Since the Honolulu Adviser is shuttering, it’s now a bloodbath in paradise.
The Honolulu Adviser writes:
The Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin employed roughly 880 people before a Feb. 25 announcement that Star-Bulletin owner David Black was acquiring the larger Advertiser from Gannett Co.
Star-Bulletin Publisher Dennis Francis said yesterday the Star-Advertiser will employ about 450 workers. The loss of about 430 jobs makes this one of the larger mass layoffs in Hawai’i in the past several years.
Francis said the Star-Advertiser has hired as many of The Advertiser Staffers as the combined newspaper could support.
Brutal.
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