Right: Rod Thompson, a volunteer for the Hawaii Island Youth News Team and member of the Big Island Press Club, helped the Youth News team get noticed by BIPC
Our own Hawaii Island Youth News Team has been recognized in the Big Island Press Club Newsletter!
The following section is a part of the BIPC newsletter that recongnized the KYBC Hawaii Island Youth News Team and Ikaika Hussey of The Hawaii Independent.
Journalism at Keaau Youth Business Center – For the second year, Alu Like, supplemented by other sources, is funding a six-week news media program for high school students of Hawaiian ancestry at the Keaau Youth Business Center in the Keaau shopping center.
The four day a week program is directed by Kristine Kubat, the former editor of the Big Island Weekly. Among volunteers assisting her are BIPC members Tiffany Edwards Hunt and Rod Thompson. About 20 “interns,” ages 14 to 18, participate in the program, which includes news gathering and writing, as well as electronic media production. The interns are hired as employees and paid minimum wage. Polished stories are published by www.thehawaiiindependent.com operated by Ikaika Hussey, a political science graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Ikaika says – Here’s an excerpt from editor-publisher Ikaika Hussey’s recent status report on his online newspaper, which he and others began in 2008.
“We’ve decided that the best thing we can do for the community, right now, is to dramatically grow our breadth and reportage so that we can compete with the new Star-Advertiser, and thus offer our readers and Hawaii’s small businesses a viable alternative. So in addition to our normal hyperlocal community coverage, we’re starting to present more breaking news, and regular coverage of local politics and economy. If we can’t cover a story with our own reporters, we’ll link to others who can—including the Star-Advertiser.
“We’re very interested in hiring former Honolulu Advertiser writers, but we’ve been stymied by restrictive severance arrangements which are preventing those highly-experienced writers from seeking other employment until July.”
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