NEW: For *20 years*, patients warned Columbia that Robert Hadden was a sexual predator One patient even called 911 and had him an arrested Columbia let him go back to work 4 days later More than 245 women have come forward propublica.org/article/columb… by Bianca Laura Beil

It's an exciting time to be at Honolulu Civil Beat. Our staff has been growing, and we just moved into a beautiful new building. Want to join us? We're looking for a social media manager. Details, salary + benefit info are here: civilbeat.org/jobs #Journalismjobs #hiring

To everyone who bashes “gadflies”…our media is decimated. The reporters are *amazing* but there aren’t enough. So “gadflies” play a key role in showing up to meetings, demanding answers, requesting documents, and sending tips of “funny business” to reporters.

This is the deadliest week ever for journalists covering Israel-Palestine in the more than 30 years that Committee to Protect Journalists has been covering attacks on the press. In less than a week, 12 journalists have been killed, eight injured and two are missing. cpj.org/2023/10/journa…

A Mississippi mother who spent 7 months searching for her son discovered that an off-duty officer ran him over less than an hour after he left the house. Authorities then buried him without notifying his family nbcnews.com/news/us-news/b…

A big reason why politicians can introduce and pass horrible bills is because the press is so diminished that they can do so without a large swath of the public ever reading about it. We really need to figure out our media crisis before our democracy dies altogether.

Interesting how Maui County initially said the early morning fire in Lahaina was "100% contained" (i.e. controlled, not extinguished) but later called it "extinguished." The initial press release can no longer be found on their website. Mahalo Internet Archive

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After clearing protesters from blocking UA Tech/Raytheon's entrance road, Pima County Sheriffs also insisted on also arresting KJZZ Phoenix journalist Alisa Zaira Reznick despite Reznick clearly carrying media equipment and repeatedly identifying herself as press.

And this is the company that wants to take over Hawaiian Airlines. 👀

Me: damn, $20 for a bag of macadamia nuts Zuck: each of my cows eat 10,000 pounds of macadamia nuts a year

Reports say LA Times is losing $40 million a year. Its owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, has an estimated net worth of about $5 billion. Even if he never makes another penny he could cover those losses every year for a century and still have more than $1 billion left over in the bank.

This video from Taylor Lorenz about the potential collapse of journalism is deeply important. Especially over the past 48 hours “I don’t think people understand how bad the world would be without journalists” “I don’t want to live in a world where all of the news is delivered

No one I talked to could definitively say whether other West Maui beaches, even Kaanapali, were safe. DOH evaded the question. Yet the beaches are open and people are swimming and surfing. sfgate.com/hawaii/article…

The Hawaii Supreme Court just quoted Slim Charles in its decision. Seriously. #TheWire

I’ve wondered for some time now if public libraries could play a role in archiving the local news websites in their area. Hawaii does it for newspapers but not digital-first news orgs. Sad to think that info can just be lost.

Dang. Children born near military bases with high levels of groundwater PFAS contamination "were born with lower birthweights, were less likely to complete college, and earned less as adults than cohorts born near any other military installation."

This is how Texas Department of Public Safety troopers dealt with a member of the local media in Austin today. The cameraman works for Fox 7 Austin. This is how amped up troopers were, in a crowd of students.