'Catastrophic': Almost Half of O'ahu Newspaper Jobs Cut

Since the Honolulu Adviser is shuttering, it’s now a bloodbath in paradise.

The Honolulu Adviser writes:

The Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin employed roughly 880 people before a Feb. 25 announcement that Star-Bulletin owner David Black was acquiring the larger Advertiser from Gannett Co.

Star-Bulletin Publisher Dennis Francis said yesterday the Star-Advertiser will employ about 450 workers. The loss of about 430 jobs makes this one of the larger mass layoffs in Hawai’i in the past several years.

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