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Today marks five years since the Star-Bulletin marched to their new offices at Restaurant Row. Whether you read it or not, news in this town is better for their being here.
Got today's special insert celebrating the occasion. Looks like they sold a lot of special congratulatory ads, and poured in a lot of photo spreads (the last five years in top-stories pictures) and articles... a whole heap of them by dear Erika Engle.
I love the Star-Bulletin, and generally root for the feistier underdog anyway.
Still, "commemorative editions" are odd creatures, and it was interesting to sense the delicate dance the articles had to perform as they basically acknowledged the Star-Bulletin's smaller circulation, its withdrawal from the Audit Bureau of Circulations ("circulation" vs. "readership," audits vs. surveys), and the challenges faced in attracting advertisers (advertise in both papers, comparison with neighbor island advertising rates, etc.).
Some basic points appeared in nearly every article, like "a two newspaper town is better" (which I agree with), and the unsurprising line, "Fisch did not return repeated phone calls over the period of a week for this story."
I liked Mary Vorsino's piece on the SOS movement, with the quotes from Cayetano and the focus on community support for the paper. It brought back good memories... like my kid and I on A-1!
Got today's special insert celebrating the occasion. Looks like they sold a lot of special congratulatory ads, and poured in a lot of photo spreads (the last five years in top-stories pictures) and articles... a whole heap of them by dear Erika Engle.
I love the Star-Bulletin, and generally root for the feistier underdog anyway.
Still, "commemorative editions" are odd creatures, and it was interesting to sense the delicate dance the articles had to perform as they basically acknowledged the Star-Bulletin's smaller circulation, its withdrawal from the Audit Bureau of Circulations ("circulation" vs. "readership," audits vs. surveys), and the challenges faced in attracting advertisers (advertise in both papers, comparison with neighbor island advertising rates, etc.).
Some basic points appeared in nearly every article, like "a two newspaper town is better" (which I agree with), and the unsurprising line, "Fisch did not return repeated phone calls over the period of a week for this story."
I liked Mary Vorsino's piece on the SOS movement, with the quotes from Cayetano and the focus on community support for the paper. It brought back good memories... like my kid and I on A-1!
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