Today's Ilind.net July 15, 2004 - Thursday
The management of the Star-Bulletin has decided to pull the plug on neighbor island distribution of the newspaper starting next month, coincidentally the same time the Advertiser's new press takes over all printing chores.
One newsroom source comments: " The move seems to make a lot of sense from an operational standpoint but it's also a marketing headache. The only appropriate headline is "Star-Bulletin drops neighbor islands". Talk about a snub and a loss for the community."
So we're back to where things were under the old Joint Operating Agreement in which only the Advertiser got regular statewide distribution. It will now be the only Hawaii newspaper to be able to claim a statewide presence.
Another person in the S-B newsroom had a short comment on the lack of institutional memory in the case of Laurence Rockefeller:
Remember that we have no archives earlier than the beginning of the online edition, and that the advertiser makes it difficult for us to access what was left behind.
Although the "new" Star-Bulletin has the temporary right to copy the archive maintained by Gannett's Advertiser, it has not exercised that right. And it's a limited right that expires relatively soon, I believe. At that point, reporters who want historical context will have to stand in line at the State Library's microfilm files.
The management of the Star-Bulletin has decided to pull the plug on neighbor island distribution of the newspaper starting next month, coincidentally the same time the Advertiser's new press takes over all printing chores.
One newsroom source comments: " The move seems to make a lot of sense from an operational standpoint but it's also a marketing headache. The only appropriate headline is "Star-Bulletin drops neighbor islands". Talk about a snub and a loss for the community."
So we're back to where things were under the old Joint Operating Agreement in which only the Advertiser got regular statewide distribution. It will now be the only Hawaii newspaper to be able to claim a statewide presence.
Another person in the S-B newsroom had a short comment on the lack of institutional memory in the case of Laurence Rockefeller:
Remember that we have no archives earlier than the beginning of the online edition, and that the advertiser makes it difficult for us to access what was left behind.
Although the "new" Star-Bulletin has the temporary right to copy the archive maintained by Gannett's Advertiser, it has not exercised that right. And it's a limited right that expires relatively soon, I believe. At that point, reporters who want historical context will have to stand in line at the State Library's microfilm files.
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