Honolulu Weekly online
The Hawaiian
Collection is pleased to announce that the full run of the Honolulu Weekly is
now available online at: https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/55438
The Honolulu Weekly was
published between 1991-2013. For many in Honolulu during these years,
especially prior to the advent of the Internet, the Weekly was
a welcome alternative to the Honolulu dailies, offering a fresh take
on Honolulu's music and culture scene, and focusing on astutely selected
issues of the day. The paper’s weekly publication cycle and long-format cover
stories often allowed writers to explore topics at a depth the daily newspapers
were unable to, while also encouraging writers to go beyond simple reporting
and into a more nuanced analysis. While the paper’s embrace of “advocacy
journalism” often lead to accusations of bias, it’s editorial staff made no
pretense at hiding that bias, and also made a point of publishing work that at
times ran counter to its own ethos. In later years, the paper’s editorial staff
also made a point each week to publish a majority of letters critical to the
paper’s own content, making the Letters page an entertaining and informative
forum of its own.
This digitization project
has been a long time in the making, almost 4 years exactly. We thank the
following people for their help and persistence:
Laurie Carlson,
Publisher, Honolulu Weekly, for permission to digitize and
post online, and for bringing the Honolulu Weekly into
being. Martha Chantiny, retired Department Head, Desktop Network Services
(DNS), and DNS staff Kathleen Luschek and Daniel Ishimitsu, for doing the heavy
lifting of getting this QC-ed, OCR-ed, and uploaded to eVols, the Library’s
digital repository. Amy Carlson, Collection Services Division Head, Hamilton
Library; and Lyn Nagoshi, Nora Goya and Wendy Wong in Hamilton Library’s Fiscal
Office.
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