Final Days? A Newsroom Diary
by Ian Lind, Star-Bulletin reporter
Final Days? A Newsroom Diaryby Ian Lind, Star-Bulletin reporter
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**Thanks for visiting. This online diary began as a personal attempt to simply be a witness to the death of a century-old newspaper when the Star-Bulletin's owners, Rupert Phillips and his Liberty Newspapers Limited Partnership, announced their intention to close the paper after the Oct. 30, 1999 edition. In exchange for closing down the Star-Bulletin and terminating the JOA with Gannett's Honolulu Advertiser 12 years early, Phillips would receive a cash payment of $26 million from Gannett, which would be left with a monopoly in this market. The diary has grown incrementally as the death watch turned into a struggle for survival, and then a groundbreaking newspaper antitrust lawsuit pitting a group backed by The Newspaper Guild against Gannett, and, finally, the "forced" sale of the paper under court supervision and prospects of survival. It's been quite a wild ride. Please browse and get a sense of what it's been like. For more information, visit the first few entries back in September 1999. Or jump right to today's entry. And, of course, feedback is always appreciated. |
Breadfruit, Kaaawa.
I had an interesting conversation last night with a friend whose business advertises regularly with the Star-Bulletin and Advertiser. He said Hawaii Newspaper Agency sales people have been calling repeatedly with deals aimed at locking up his ads in advance of a possible Star-Bulletin sale.Unfortunately for HNA, he has a vivid memory of how Gannett acted when they thought the Star-Bulletin would close and leave them with a monopoly. Gannett's "take it or leave it" attitude is what shapes his reaction today.
His response to HNA: "If the Star-Bulletin is sold, I'll probably run ads in the Advertiser telling people to read our ads in the Star-Bulletin."
No telling how widespread that viewpoint is, but I doubt he's unique.
It makes me wonder whether HNA might be violating the federal court injunction by trying to cut deals now that benefit the Advertiser in possible future competition. The injunction states, in part: "Defendants shall refrain from taking any actions that may cause any material adverse change in the business, including loss of subscribers and advertisers, or financial condition of the Star-Bulletin as a viable going concern."
This issue of advertising plans and sales appears to deserve scrutiny, so hopefully Judge Kurren will be given an opportunity to review Gannett's actions in this area.
We're still clueless about progress, if any, in the negotiations over final terms of the sale, or even whether those negotiations are still on track. With the court imposed deadline just ten working days away, that's more than a bit unsettling.
It seems odd that Black Press apparently isn't factoring in any labor cost issues into its bid, since there have apparently been no discussions with the staff on any of the outstanding issues, and apparently won't be before the deal is either finalized or falls apart. What that signals isn't at all clear to me.
The week began with a notice of a staff meeting to be held at noon today. "Please adjust your schedules to attend." Under the circumstances, this sent anxiety levels soaring. Staffers wondered if there was to be some kind of major announcement. A second message instructing all editors to be at a 1 p.m. meeting underscored the sense of vulnerability.A quick reality check determined that there isn't any blockbuster coming. The meetings are being held to ramp up the collective process of responding to the Advertiser's initiatives, and involve all staff in brainstorming and planning changes to meet the competitive challenge, including the prospect of a new Sunday edition.
This prompted comment on our relatively flat management structure--we've got relatively few chiefs among the indians, and the degree of separation isn't that great, compared to the starkly hierarchical structure Gannett has built across the hall.
One staffer stopped by to comment on the cooperative effort that has developed back at the copy desk. The position of news editor remains unfilled, and staffers are each contributing their own expertise, stepping up when they can to lead particular tasks, sharing skills with less experienced staffers, so that the desk is coping with the situation through sharing and cooperation. I'm sure it isn't quite as idyllic as it sounds, but the spirit it reflects is definitely a key to our success.
Later in the day, I stumbled across an Editor & Publisher story about this diary effort in their online edition for the day: "NEWSPAPER SALE DIARY GETS LONGER AND LONGER, Tale Of Honolulu Star-Bulletin Is Never-ending Story", by Joel Davis.
Davis drops in one bit of information about the current negotiations, something we hadn't heard:
Black characterized the negotiations as "difficult," telling E&P that one of the sticking points in the deal is access to Gannett's existing supply of newsprint. The West Coast supply from vendors, he said, is "very tight."Davis also implied a concern for possible retaliation when he commented on the "protections" provided to me by our Guild contract. I was a bit surprised, since I have really never considered potential personal costs of this effort, at least not beyond the lost sleep and some temporarily strained personal relations it has entailed. The form here is a bit different, and admittedly I'm not as "objective" as our corporate masters generally prefer, but after all, chronicling events is what we do as journalists, isn't it?
Actually, everyone has stayed admirably hands-off, and since I probably wouldn't notice subtle pressure, and overt attempts to silence me would be self-defeating, there isn't much here to worry about except for the occasional risk of embarrassment from excessive self-exposure.
Just one other observation. It seems to be very hard for people to understand sunrise. We walk in the early morning, and I get sunrise photos, but several people, including Davis in this short article, find themselves adopting the "sunset" image.
I guess most folks are just too stressed in the morning to stop and enjoy the beginnings of each day, but I have to admit that we've become addicted to sort of the "zen" of dawn.
Sunrise, Oct 17, 6:30 a.m. Kaaawa, Hawaii.
Star-Bulletin staffers gathered around the city desk at noon yesterday heard a simple message: We've managed to hang together through a bad year--now let's work together as we deal with the challenge of competing head on with the Advertiser.Publisher John Flanagan responded to questions about last week's announcement of a major staff expansion by Gannett's Honolulu Advertiser. "They held off for a year, and suddenly they're pushing ahead with this. They're obviously sending a signal, perhaps that they expect a deal is imminent."
In response to a question about the likelihood that Gannett will seek to raid our newsroom by hiring away top writers, Flanagan responded thoughtfully.
"We've got a different philosophy in our newsroom of how we report the news, and why we do it," Flanagan said. That difference, which translates into much better working conditions at the Star-Bulletin, could allow us to lure some staffers away from the Advertiser, so the idea of a "raid" is really a two way street, Flanagan said, urging us not to be overly concerned.
Rumor has it that ads are already being prepared announcing the Advertiser's hiring of former television news anchor Lee Cataluna as a news columnist, while at the same time interviews of current staffers for the same position are ongoing. There's bound to be some resentment among veteran writers left standing in line.
And one report from across the hall says they've been told the newsroom will be relocated to a nearby location in January in order to begin a major 2-year renovation project on this building. The long-planned renovations have been deferred as a result of the Star-Bulletin lawsuit, and the fact they now appear to be moving forward is another sign that a deal is near. Where that leaves the Star-Bulletin as construction begins isn't clear.
It promises to be a most interesting day.David Black, owner of Black Press and designated bidder for the Star-Bulletin, is reportedly in Honolulu and expected to make an appearance in our newsroom at some point today. We don't know whether he will do more than wave and say hello. If the deal isn't done, it seems unlikely that we'll have a chance to ask substantive questions about his plans, which is what everyone is most concerned about. But the face-to-face meeting is the another step out of this litigation limbo and something we've been looking forward to.
I thought about delaying this mention of his appearance until tomorrow, but then realized the gossip lines between our newsrooms obviously work in both directions. If we hear what is happening across the hall within minutes, the reverse is certainly true as well. And if Black's visit isn't a secret, there's no reason to hold back. So apologies in advance to any folks in our newsroom who feel I'm disclosing state secrets.
The recently elected S-B bargaining committee met for the first time yesterday in what turned out to be an orientation session for those who have not participated in collective bargaining sessions before. Guild staffer Wayne Cahill set the stage, and not a moment too soon, at least if Black's presence in Honolulu is any indication.
Late in the afternoon word spread that Associated Press staffer Ben DiPietro had resigned on the spot after Honolulu bureau chief Gordon Sakamoto turned down his request for a World Series leave. He asked for time off to fly off to New York for the series, and was serious about it. The AP bureau is just a few stops down the hall, so word spread quickly.
It was the best attended staff meeting since Rupert Phillips showed up in September '99 to announce his plan for our imminent demise, as staff gathered around the city desk at noon yesterday to await the arrival of Canadian newspaper publisher and apparent white knight David Black.Black made his entrance to the Star-Bulletin newsroom as a good politician would, smiling, shaking hands, and asking names, and then he spent about 45-minutes in a relatively 'no holds barred' Q&A session.
Black is personable, confident, and straightforward. He didn't duck any questions and, for the most part, we were very impressed and left the session with a clearer sense that yes, we--personally and as a newspaper--might just survive this whole affair, despite Gannett's best efforts.
We were asked to treat the substance of the discussion as confidential, including is general outlines of plans for the paper, so rather than try to decide what is appropriate to report, I'll defer to the Star-Bulletin's own coverage.
The Advertiser ran its own account this morning as well.
Black did say in a television interview as he left the newsroom that availability of newsprint is the last major unresolved issue in negotiations with Gannett. Although Gannett has stipulated in court that it would print the Star-Bulletin under contract, if desired by the buyer, it has refused to sell the allocation of newsprint along with the paper's other assets. With supplies tight, this is proving a substantial hurdle, although odds of a deal being reached prior to =
You can sense a new level of energy in the Star-Bulletin newsroom, a background buzz with an occasional spark, like walking along under a high voltage wire and being aware of the current running through the line. Committees are starting to meet, suggestions solicited, options weighed, as we start looking beyond next Friday's court date to the work ahead--designing a new Sunday edition, designing a new newsroom and planning the move, and finding ways to tap the community support for the Star-Bulletin that has been revealed over the past year and translate it into circulation.Maybe it's all premature, and we're making the classic mistake of taking our eyes of the ball a moment too soon. But the energy is riding the wave of relief that has followed the emergence of a serious buyer and an apparent deal.
After a year of worrying that the next step would be a frustrating search for employment with few options available locally, it's liberating to have at least a semblance of normalcy, despite the changes that obviously lie ahead.
Coping with our cats in the midst of the multilevel stresses of the past year has been bad enough. I'm awed that my colleagues with kids have been able to get their families through it all.
And if a deal is reached in time to be announced during Friday's hearing in federal court, will there be celebrating? We don't know. The "official" party has been postponed due to conflicting events, but I'm betting there will be other loose cannons ready to fire off a round or two.
A bit of fancy footwork by sports editor Cindy Luis resulted in a special to the Star-Bulletin yesterday by Ben DiPietro, the Honolulu AP writer who quit when his request for World Series leave was denied. Hopefully this means the S-B will benefit from Ben's reporting throughout the series and, with luck, our other friends at AP will take it with good humor.
I just ran across an announcement that David Black received one of Ernst & Young's Canadian Regional Entrepreneur of the Year Awards for 1999. According to their published blurb:
David Black received an engineering degree at UBC in 1969 and an MBA at Western in 1971. In 1975 he moved to Williams Lake, BC, to purchase a small newspaper from his father. He is now President and owner of Black Press, the largest private newspaper publisher in Canada. David continues to contribute to volunteer organizations within his communities through serving on various committees - the Victoria Commonwealth Games bid committee, Board of Advisors for the new University of Victoria Business School, and the Canadian Newspaper Association.If his plan works, and we manage to survive the end of the JOA and successfully compete with Gannett's Advertiser, he'll certainly be in line for wider recognition.
With any luck at all, the uncertainty ends this week and the hard work of recreating ourselves begins. I feel a bit like I'm holding my breath until Friday morning's heaing in federal court.If the deal is made, the pressure immediately hits our bargaining committee, which will have to quickly begin dealing with changes in the contract sought by David Black. We don't yet know what these proposals will entail, only that they're waiting in the wings, and discussions will begin once Gannett agrees to the sale.
We'll be walking a very delicate line between willingness to accomodate changes in order to see the paper survive, and an unwillingness to abandon the working conditions and benefits that have been achieved through past struggles.
And the potential role to be played by a staff ESOP, if any, remains unresolved as well, and the ESOP committee's strict secrecy has meant that the rest of the newsroom has no clue about whether the ESOP is still in play or not.
This is uncharted territory for us, although hopefully not for the Newspaper Guild, which deserves a lot of the credit for getting us through to this point.
The bad news came midmorning in a brief message from acting managing editor Frank Bridgewater--reporter Jaymes Song has resigned and has accepted a position with the Associated Press bureau in Honolulu. His last day with the Star-Bulletin will be Nov. 3.With a deal that will save the Star-Bulletin possible before the end of the week, this departure is a blow. At least he didn't resign and immediately walk across the hall to the Advertiser, which would have been more demoralizing, although he might have his eye on a staff position over there in the future.
Hopefully this isn't a sign of things to come, but it does plant those seeds of doubt about the intentions of others in the newsroom.
That's Star-Bulletin editor & publisher John Flanagan standing on a desk at the other end of the newsroom with a Hawaiian flag, a gift from David Black following his appearance last week. The flag is now hanging next to the Canadian flag that spontaneously appeared weeks ago.
In a handwritten note addressed to "the gang at the Star-Bulletin," Black wrote: "Thanks for the encouragement and enthusiasm. Joining you in waving the flag."
Both flags are now visible in the background of the S-B cam.
I'll say it up front. I'm sick of institutional plagiarism by Gannett's Honolulu Advertiser. It's one of those things we've had to put up with while trapped in this JOA which they control. In the past, we've had to "grin and bear it." It makes reporters furious when it happens, has drawn repeated complaints, but the practice continues. So let's shine some light on it.Simply put, the Advertiser ripped off another Star-Bulletin story yesterday. Despite their apparent advantage in staff, budget, and resources, they somehow find it necessary to report the news by simply lifting major stories from the Star-Bulletin, using the guise of an Associated Press rewrite. It happens over, and over, and over again. We break a good story, and instead of following it with some legwork of their own, they take the lazy and intellectually dishonest route. Sorry, guys, it might be legal but it's intellectually dishonest, and under it all you know it, too.
My own story was the case in point this time. On Monday, my story appeared on our front page, reporting questions being raised about a small but rapidly growing health plan that claims to be exempt from Hawaii insurance laws. Not earthshattering, but an interesting story in light of past problems with Hawaii's lax insurance code. Pure enterprise. I covered the failure of another health insurer several years ago that involved insider fraud, and became interested in the heavy advertising and "too good to be true" offers by this new company. My curiosity turned up a decent story.
On Tuesday, a lengthy AP rewrite appears as the lead story of the Advertiser's business section, top of the page, attributed to AP. Nary a mention of the Star-Bulletin anywhere. I don't complain about the rewrite being used in other markets, such as the neighbor island newspapers. That's the theory of the AP system. But we're right across the hall from each other and in direct competition, and under these circumstances the Advertiser certainly strains the limits of acceptable practice.
I wouldn't object to the Advertiser running a brief, or using the rewrite as the kernel of a piece that advances the story, or even running the longer piece with some credit to the Star-Bulletin, which has happened on rare occasion.
OK, so this use is technically within AP's guidelines, but you would think Advertiser editors would be personally ashamed of such blatant rip-offs and exercise a bit of self control. When we begin publishing independently, hopefully we will not be as gracious about such incidents as we've been in the past.
Customers arriving to make payments or place classified ads were being turned away or directed around to an employee entrance around the side of the building. Inside, customers were angry when delays caused by the unannounced lockout caused them to miss the deadline for placing ads. A handicapped couple, wife in a wheel chair, found the ramp blocked by equipment and yellow tape, and had no way to enter. Even the Fire Department got into the act when inspectors arrived on the scene after an "anonymous" call alerted them to the locked front doors that blocked the main entrance (and exit) from the building.
It was simply an awesome display of corporate stupidity and pettiness when Gannett officials locked the front doors of the news building and hired a crew to steam clean the outside stairs in a last-minute attempt to disrupt a planned mid-afternoon press conference by Save Our Star-Bulletin (SOS), the community group formed last year to oppose the paper's shutdown. All this in the shadow of Friday's scheduled court hearing, when the sides will report on progress, or lack of it, in the sale negotiations between Gannett, Liberty Newspapers Limited Partnership, and Black Press, Ltd. [For a thumbnail explanation of the overall situation, see the paragraph at the top of this page.]
Yellow tape with its "Keep Out" message was the first sign that something was amiss, appearing less than an hour before the press conference was to begin. Then the two-man crew lugged their equipment to the scene, and then cranked up the noisy compressor just as television news crews began arriving.
The cleaning crew said they had been contacted to do the job only about an hour before they started work. They also said they had been given specific instructions not to shut down their compressor unless directed by Gannett management.
The scene took on a wild, carnival atmosphere. There was laughter as people heard what was happening and began to comprehend the bewildering degree of corporate bumbling.
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for a larger versionStar-Bulletin staffers gathered to watch the festivities were incredulous. We could never have invented such a wild scenario, obviously guaranteed to turn a minor news event into a feature story.
A veteran reporter who has worked in the building for 30 years could not recall when the last cleaning had been done, at least during business hours.
"We shouldn't have so much fun," one S-B staffer quipped amidst the shouts and laughter.
Today's federal court deadline has been extended for 10 days until 11 AM on Monday, November 6. Most staffers were very disappointed, although the judge's willingness to extend means that the parties must have indicated that the negotiations are continuing to progress, which is ultimately good news for us. It means more waiting, though, and that's one commodity that we've all had more than enough of.Wednesday's steam cleaning incident (described fully in yesteday's entry) continued to reverberate through our newsroom. Advertiser writer Walter Wright, to his credit, at least mentioned the incident in his lengthy story on the status of the sale, although you had to read down to paragraph 43 to find it.
The question that kept Star-Bulletin staffers shaking their heads was this: How could a company in the news business be so clueless about the dynamics of news to imagine that a heavy handed move, like locking the doors and bringing in the water hoses, could possible play out to their benefit? Of course, there were also continuing musings on which Gannett executive was most likely to have actually issued the order or approved the suggestion to order up the cleaning crew on short notice. The competition, I'm sorry to say, was fierce.
Sunrise, October 27, 2000. Kaaawa, HawaiiEvidence keeps mounting that some of our circulation woes in recent years are a product of Gannett policy. A friend who just returned from Kauai sent this report yesterday:
There are no Star-Bulletins delivered at Foodland stores on the North Shore, including Hanalei and Princeville. Foodland is the only large grocery store in both places. The lady at the newspaper desk in Princeville's Foodland said there was no one available or willing to deliver the Bulletin to that part of the island. They had plenty of Advertisers, but she said the boy who delivered the Bulletins had a run-in with the manager of one of the Foodlands and they banned him. Apparently, she thought, he quit and HNA had not found a replacement. Does HNA really have separate delivery people for each paper?And another distribution-related report comes from SaveStarBulletin.org, which points to the special sales racks pushing copies of the Advertiser's USS Missouri souvenir edition to tourists visiting the restored ship out at Pearl Harbor. You won't find any indication that the Star-Bulletin also did a Missouri edition, and you certainly won't find it for sale.
These situations have been common since Gannett seized control of the Honolulu Newspaper Agency in 1993, despite being contrary to the clear terms of the JOA, which require the joint agency to act in the best interests of both newspapers.
And for those who have asked, Leo is doing much better, thank you, although it was several days before he felt well enough to even walk around the house. But now, a week after he went "down", he seems almost back to normal. And he appreciates your concern.
My Wednesday rant about Gannett's practice of taking lengthy AP rewrites of Star-Bulletin stories and running them in the Advertiser as their own brought several replies. Most interesting, according to one reporter: "An AP staffer even confessed to me that the Tiser sometimes REQUESTS lengthy rewrites of Star-Bulletin stories the AP hadn't planned on picking up."Another call underscored the issue, this from a source on the health insurance story that got me started on the issue. "I saw your story in the Advertiser," she said, referring to the long rewrite that ran at the top of their business page, "but I didn't see your byline." She was legitimately confused and wondered if I work for the Advertiser as well as the S-B.
Why read the Advertiser, some might ask, when you can get it all the day before in the Star-Bulletin, in more detail and by the original writers? Actually, I know that's not really a fair statement, since there are plenty of good reporters working across the hall, and they aren't responsible for the misdeeds of management.
Or, as one Advertiser reporter said in passing yesterday to a S-B writer, "the front steps aren't the only thing being hosed over here."
Hawaii Cows, a web site which offers up "news, moos, and irreverent views", had this to say yesterday:
Federal magistrate Barry Kurren has granted a continuance of the proposed Star-Bulletin sale. Maybe it's not the worst possible news, but don't try telling that to the Star-Bulletin staff who now have to hang in there at least a little longer. Kurren has not set a new deadline which could put more pressure on Gannett. What we think would really get Gannett motivated would be a statewide boycott on the morning paper until this thing is settled.I doubt that the "B" word will lead to anything, but it's another small indicator of the degree to which Gannett's attitude has alienated the community, or at least large parts of it.
One Star-Bulletin staffer noted that Gannett's Advertiser can't proceed with its announced plans to add twenty-something staffers until they move to new quarters sometime after the first of the year. There simply isn't room in their newsroom for the additional bodies. That gives us a bit more time to develop our game plan before their expansion efforts kick in.
6:38 AM, Sunday, Oct. 29. Kaaawa, Hawaii.Meanwhile, I'm taking the lazy route this wet and windy Sunday morning by sharing these extended comments by a Star-Bulletin staffer:
Among the most interesting people I've ever talked to during my career were pilots, especially the ones who had put their lives on the line in battle.The one trait common among the best of them, even the ones who were shot down, is that they went into battle with the notion that everything else in the air were targets. They weren't reckless or foolhardy. Just powerfully confident. They didn't dwell on the possibility of failure. No time for that.
Our own situation is looking more positive all the time. Yet you look around the newsroom and there is no shortage of long faces and wringing hands.Moans erupt when the 'Tizer announces 22 job openings. People are worried half sick over what the future holds.
Well, it's time that everyone stop and consider what we have before us. We're about to be given the opportunity of a lifetime. We have the chance to build a newspaper almost from scratch. We're lucky to have a loyal readership and a following that trusts us to do a great job in providing them a newspaper worth reading. We alone have the responsibility to make our product shine and we will have the full support and encouragement of a new owner.
We're getting really close to the end of this ordeal, which will also mark the beginning of a tough fight for first place. When the deal is finally closed, "relaxing" isn't going to be part of the agenda. We're the smaller paper with fewer resources. We're the underdog with a circulation almost half that of the competition. We'll be up against a media giant magnitudes larger than ourselves.
So the time is coming when we all need to stop thinking like victims and stand proud. Everyone's going to have to put in their 100 percent because we won't be able to afford anything less. Now is the time to start working on inspirational stories and compelling photographs. We owe it to our readers and to the legacy of this newspaper.
(Romenesko readers: see last Thursday's entry for Gannett's steam pressure tactics)We're powering through another significant anniversary today. The Star-Bulletin's last edition was scheduled to come off the presses, and the newspaper shut down, on October 30, 1999, until a federal court injunction disrupted Gannett's blueprint for monopoly.
To mark the occasion, Star-Bulletin staffers will join supporters from the community group Save Our Star-Bulletin in front of the building at 4 p.m. with signs thanking the public for sticking with us throughout the year.
When we took to the sidewalks a year ago, the future looked pretty bleak. Today, thanks to the backing of The Newspaper Guild and others, we're optimistic about the paper's survival and ability to successfully compete with Gannett's Honolulu Advertiser outside of the JOA. And Gannett apparently sees the Star-Bulletin's challenge as real enough to resort to stupid pet tricks like last week's steam clean fiasco.
The year has definitely taken a toll on all of us, something that can be said for our newsroom as well as across the hall at Gannett's Advertiser. But you can feel things heading towards a conclusion and we're being swept along with the momentum. The court extended the deadline for wrapping up negotiations on the sale of the paper until next Monday, Nov. 6. We're all hoping for the deal to be cut by then.
Drivers honked in support as more than 60 people, including Star-Bulletin and Hawaii Newspaper Agency staffers, Newspaper Guild and ILWU members, and supporters joined in friendly picketing of the news building after work yesterday. Among the group were leaders of the Honolulu Community-Media Council, two former Lt. Governor's of Hawaii, plaintiff's in the Save Our Star-Bulletin antitrust lawsuit against Gannett, HNA, and Liberty Newspapers, and others. Reporters and editors were joined by back shop employees, adding to the message of solidarity.
One little devil added some Halloween color, while other signs thanked the public for their support. The group spread along two sides of the building and across the street.
Conspicuously absent, unlike similar occasions over the past year, was the Star-Bulletin's editor and publisher, along a few members of the management team. Perhaps a sign that negotiations are at a particularly sensitive stage. Or maybe just busy schedules. We'll know soon enough.
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In other news yesterday, Gannett's Hawaii Newspaper Agency officially canceled the annual recognition dinner honoring employees hitting the 25 year landmark, which has traditionally included those from both newspapers and the joint marketing and production staff. The event has ostensibly been postponed until next year, but by that time the Star-Bulletin will have gone independent, and HNA itself will have been dissolved along with the Joint Operating Agreement.
Another random act of pettiness.
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