The Honolulu alternative-weekly newspaper that once featured a column by an activist who became a U.S. Senator and was long recognized for independent investigative journalism is publishing its last issue - at least for a while - tomorrow.
Here's the message posted on Honolulu Weekly's Facebook page late today:
Wanted you to be the first to know: Editors learned today, Honolulu Weekly is going on hiatus for financial reasons. Tomorrow's June 5 FOOD ISSUE will be our last until we regroup, looking at Fall 2013.
Stay in touch, dear friends.
Alt-weeklies remaining in Hawai`i include
Maui Time Weekly and
Big Island Weekly.
The Hawaiian Island of O`ahu - home to about 1 million people, the State Capitol, and offices of the State's entire Congressional Delegation - is now left with a single mass-circulation newspaper, the daily Honolulu Star-Advertiser.
The demise of alt-weeklies has been an ongoing story. So today's news isn't particularly surprising. But it's still jarring, as revealed by comments on the Facebook page.
A hui hou, Honolulu Weekly.