List of Civil Beat Journalists and Reporters

1. Stewart Yerton

Designation Senior Business Reporter Author Bio Stewart Yerton reports on business and the economy for Honolulu Civil Beat. Those are subjects he spent more than a decade reporting on — at publications in New York, New Orleans and Honolulu. He’s written about the U.S. treasury bond market, the business of big law firms, controversies surrounding the world’s largest gold mine on the island of New Guinea and corruption in the Louisiana casino industry. His reporting on the human cadaver trade, published in The Times-Picayune newspaper, won the Society of American Business Editors & Writers 2005 Best in Business Award ...for Enterprise Reporting in the large newspaper category. Stewart’s first big newspaper story, for The Birmingham (Ala.) News, was about a political battle between a small-town mayor and the volunteer firefighters who were trying to oust him from office because of the mayor’s 30-year-old conviction for making moonshine whiskey. The story briefly thrust the tiny town of Brookside, Ala., into the national spotlight when The Washington Post came to write about the comic-gothic brouhaha. A member of the Hawaii State Bar Association since January 2012, Stewart graduated cum laude from University of Hawaii’s William S. Richardson School of Law, where he earned the environmental law certificate. His paper “Procedural Standing and the Hawaii Superferry Decision: How a Surfer, a Paddler, and an Orchid Farmer Aligned Hawaii’s Standing Doctrine with Federal Principles” was published in the Asian Pacific Law & Policy Journal in 2011. In law school, Stewart externed for U.S. District Court Judge David Alan Ezra and served as the law school’s first Jarman Environmental Law Fellow. Stewart also has worked as an analyst with the Hawaii State Auditor’s office. When not working, Stewart can often be found practicing yoga and Argentine tango, attempting to play guitar, and chauffeuring his two daughters around Oahu.more
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2. Kevin Dayton

Designation Senior Reporter Author Bio Kevin Dayton is the former Capitol Bureau chief for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. He was formerly Capitol Bureau chief and Big Island Bureau chief for The Honolulu Advertiser, which was Hawaii’s largest circulation daily newspaper until it closed. He also reported for the Hawaii Tribune-Herald in Hilo, the Honolulu bureau of the Associated Press, Sun Press weekly newspapers in Kaneohe, and the Tucson Citizen. He also worked as an executive assistant and executive director for Hawaii County Mayor Billy Kenoi, and is a former U.S. Army sergeant and infantry fire team leader. He ho...lds a master’s degree in political science from the University of Hawaii Manoa, and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Arizona. He and his wife Mahealani live in Hilo and have seven children, five of them grown. They have been state-licensed foster parents since 2009.more
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3. Nathan Eagle

Designation Deputy Editor Author Bio Nathan Eagle is the deputy editor for Honolulu Civil Beat. He moved to Oahu in March 2012 after he reached the self-proclaimed End of the World during a backpacking trip in South America. (Due to his respect for Hawaii laws regulating non-native and invasive species, he reluctantly decided against bringing back penguins from Isla Magdalena.) Before Nathan’s temporary departure from the northern hemisphere, he served as managing editor of The Garden Island. It was a position as environment reporter for this century-old daily newspaper on Kauai that lured him from his native Ohio in ...2007. As a Civil Beat reporter he covered everything from state government and commercial fishing to ocean-related issues and politics. He has won statewide and national awards for public service reporting, online news reporting, a multimedia project on Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument (The Last Wild Place), a series on ocean safety (Dying For Vacation), a series on unfunded liabilities (Pension Promises), data journalism, editorial writing, columns, photography, local news coverage and community reporting. Nathan has degrees in journalism and Spanish from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. But he is perhaps more proud of the proverbial badges of honor he earned after diving with a dozen bull sharks in Fiji, summiting Long’s Peak in Colorado and hiking up Vulcan Villarrica in Chile. He looks forward to continuing to serve the public in Hawaii while hopefully finding a few spare moments to enjoy the vibrant cultural activities and natural escapes that the islands offer. Nathan warmly welcomes any and all story ideas and feedback. News tips are appreciated. You can send them directly to ****@civilbeat.org or anonymously using this Tipbox link, which uses automatic encryption. (NOTE: If you send a tip through Tipbox I cannot respond unless there’s contact information in the body of the message.)more
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4. Paula Dobbyn

Designation Journalist Author Bio Paula Dobbyn joined Civil Beat in February 2022. She’s a longtime Alaska journalist who previously worked in Washington, D.C., Boston, and Central America. After graduating from Hampshire College with a political science degree, Paula began her journalism career in Nicaragua during the 1980s, covering the U.S.-backed war against the Sandinista revolutionary government. She freelanced from Managua as a radio reporter for AP Broadcast, ABC Radio, Radio Netherlands and other international outlets, occasionally venturing to El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica on reporting assignments. ... With a ceasefire in place between the Contras and the Sandinistas and the war winding down, Paula returned to the U.S. She worked an overnight shift at the AP Broadcast Center in Washington, D.C., turning wire copy into newscast scripts for radio stations across the country. She moved on to Boston for a staff position at Monitor Radio, the (now-defunct) broadcast arm of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Christian Science Monitor newspaper. Paula used her radio skills at the Monitor as a newscaster, producer and editor for five years. She also produced news and feature stories for Monitor Television. In what has become a lifelong quest for adventure, Paula moved to Juneau, Alaska, in 1994 for a reporting job at KTOO, the public radio station in the state’s capital. For the next four years, she covered a wide range of stories involving Alaska’s contentious commercial fishing industry, clear-cut logging of the region’s coastal temperate rainforest, battles over the regulation of foreign flagged cruise ships and an ever-burgeoning tourism industry, and the complex and often opaque operations of Alaska’s congressionally created Native corporations. Seeking a reprieve from the Tongass National Forest’s torrential rainfall, Paula left Juneau for a Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. During the fellowship, Paula studied public lands law, federal Indian law and creative nonfiction. After drying out in the Colorado sunshine for that year, Paula returned to Alaska for a reporting position at the Anchorage Daily News where she covered timber, tourism, commercial fishing and Alaska Native corporations, among other topics. After seven years at the Daily News and with the newspaper industry starting to shed jobs, Paula headed to Ireland to study human rights law. She graduated with her master’s degree from a cross-border program run by Queen’s University Belfast and National University of Ireland at Galway. After becoming a mother following graduate school, Paula worked in communications for the more regular hours and flexibility those positions offered. But journalism is Paula’s first love and the pull of storytelling lured her back to the newsroom. In recent years, Paula has worked as a senior digital reporter at Alaska’s News Source covering breaking news and enterprise stories, and as a grant-funded reporter on the homelessness beat for the Anchorage Daily News. She has also taught journalism as an adjunct professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage and does freelance magazine writing as time allows. Besides journalism and writing, Paula is also passionate about yoga, diving and her family.more
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5. Lee Cataluna

Designation Reporter Author Bio Lee Cataluna has been telling Hawaii stories for 25 years and has worked in local radio, television and newspapers. She was born on Maui and raised on the neighbor islands as her family moved frequently for her father’s job in sugar. She went to nine different schools before graduating from Baldwin High School, so if you think she was your classmate, you might be right. She received an undergraduate degree from the University of the Pacific and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California-Riverside. Her writing outside of journalism includes Folks You Meet in Lon...gs, which has been in print since 2005 and was named one of the 50 Essential Books About Hawaii by Honolulu Magazine. She has been writing for the stage for more than 20 years and her plays have been produced and workshopped around Hawaii, in California and New York. Her recent work includes “Home of the Brave,” a play about the lives of children from military families, which she wrote after interviewing hundreds of kids, teachers, parents, principals, active duty and veterans from all branches of the military.more
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6. Blaze Lovell

Designation State Government Reporter Author Bio Blaze Lovell, previously a reporter for Honolulu Civil Beat, is spending a year as a local investigations fellow with The New York Times. Previously, he was a reporting fellow and intern. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Born and raised on Oahu, he graduated from Pearl City High School in 2014 before migrating to the desert to study journalism. In his college years, Blaze served as the managing editor for UNLV’s paper, the Free Press, and also played rugby, which is like football without pads or rules.
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7. Kirstin Downey

Designation Reporter Author Bio Kirstin Downey, a local girl who went to Kailua High School and then Penn State University, is a reporter for Civil Beat. She has covered the federal government, state and local issues since returning home to the islands. Kirstin had an award-winning career on the mainland, climbing from small newspapers in Colorado and Florida to bigger ones in major cities. At the San Jose Mercury in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, Kirstin wrote about the dwindling supply of low-income housing in the region and how rampant real estate speculation was damaging the banking industry. Her work foreshadowed the s...avings and loan crash of the early 1990s, and she covered the nation’s response as a reporter at the Washington Post. At the Washington Post, Kirstin won six regional reporting awards for her coverage of economic, political and financial issues. She was a finalist for the Livingston award for outstanding young journalist in America for her series of stories on how investors had abused government loan programs to profiteer and destroy inner-city neighborhoods in the District, contributing to the growing social woes there. She used land records and mortgage filings to document the patterns. Her coverage contributed to what became the largest single set of prosecutions in the history of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, leading to more than 50 convictions. Kirstin was awarded a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University in 2000-2001 after writing many stories about sexual harassment in the workplace, a social problem that came to light in depositions and documents filed in dozens of class-action lawsuits around the country. She covered the terrorist attacks in New York City in 2001, writing about the events of the day and the tragic impact on human lives and the U.S. economy, as well as the mysterious follow-on anthrax attacks. From 2005 to 2007, Kirstin wrote dozens of stories chronicling the dangerous growth of toxic mortgages, repeatedly raising concerns to government agencies that should have been doing more to stop the looming crisis. She emphasized the human impact of the problems, including the foreclosures that devastated families. In 2007, she used data-driven reporting to write in-depth stories describing the pernicious effect of toxic loans targeted and marketed to minorities, immigrants and young families. She shared in the Pulitzer Prize awarded to the Washington Post’s metro staff in 2008 for coverage of the campus massacre at Virginia Tech. Kirstin wrote pieces profiling the two heroic professors who died that day protecting their students. After leaving the Post, Kirstin served as an investigator and writer for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, (the Angelides Commission), which published a New York Times-bestselling book on the causes and implications of the economic meltdown of 2008. She wrote the section of the book that detailed the many specific warnings that were ignored by corporations and top government officials. Kirstin loves history. She is a book author, published by Nan Talese at Doubleday/Random House. Her biography of Frances Perkins, “The Woman Behind the New Deal,” a portrait of the country’s most effective progressive, was named one of the top 10 biographies of the year by the American Library Association. Her book about the controversial Queen Isabella of Spain, “Isabella the Warrior Queen,” was named to BBC’s list of Ten Books to Read, November 2014 and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times award for best biography of the year. The book has been translated into Spanish, Polish and Chinese. Kirstin and her husband, Neil Averitt, live in Honolulu. Together they have five children. She is trying to learn to speak Hawaiian, and finding it very difficult.more
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8. Alicia Lou

Designation Reporter Author Bio Alicia Lou was a reporter for Honolulu Civil Beat. She recently graduated from the University of Hawaii Manoa with a degree in journalism and a minor in English. Prior to Civil Beat, Alicia interned at Hawaii Business Magazine and wrote for Ka Leo, the UH Manoa student newspaper. Although born in Nevada, Alicia has spent most of her life moving. She has lived on several islands, in 12 U.S. cities, six countries, and has had the privilege to visit many more. During her prolonged gap year, Alicia became a dive instructor and worked and lived on boats — sparking her passion for mar...ine life and sustainability, which she continues to nurture in her free time. Also, she is an aspiring dog owner.more
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9. Anita Hofschneider

Designation Reporter Author Bio Anita Hofschneider is a reporter covering the Pacific for Civil Beat. She previously covered city and state politics, land, social issues and the pandemic. Her work has won multiple national, regional and local awards. Prior to starting at Civil Beat, Anita covered the 2013 Hawaii legislative session for the Associated Press and interned at the Wall Street Journal in New York. She graduated from Harvard with honors in 2012 and is originally from the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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10. Christina Jedra

Designation Investigative Reporter Author Bio Christina Jedra is a journalist for Civil Beat focused on investigative and in-depth reporting. Her work holds the government accountable for how it spends your tax dollars and makes decisions that affect the lives of Hawaii residents. She is also Civil Beat’s lead reporter covering the water contamination crisis caused by operations at the Navy’s Red Hill fuel facility. Her reporting on this topic has been recognized by the Best of the West journalism contest and earned an Emmy Award, Edward R. Murrow Award and a first-place Institute for Nonprofit News “INNY” Award... for investigative reporting. Previously, Christina was an investigative reporter for the Delaware News Journal. Her investigative stories there sparked criminal investigations and penalties and prompted legislative and policy changes. She was recognized several times by the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association, which awarded her a first-place prize and a best of show award in investigative reporting in 2019. Christina’s first full-time job in journalism was at The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland. A graduate of Emerson College in Boston, Christina interned with The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, The New England Center for Investigative Reporting and USA Today. Christina was born and raised in New Jersey and has strong feelings about quality bagels and pizza.more
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11. Jia Jung

Designation Reporter Author Bio Jia Jung was the 2022 Li Center for Global Journalism Fellow at Honolulu Civil Beat, a position supported by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Institute for Nonprofit News. She reports on Philippine affairs for Filipino communities and interested readers in Hawaii and beyond. Born and raised in Massachusetts to Korean parents, Jia’s journey to reporting on the Asia-Pacific region began at the University of California, Berkeley. She has lived and worked in the Marshall Islands, South Korea and India in addition to the mainland. Her portfolio includes stories... for a variety of news outlets, including VICE Creators, PRI, The Korea Times, Atlas (Gastro) Obscura and Saveur. Passionate about storytelling, characters and multimedia content, Jia has won story slams of The Moth organization and created podcasts about uncommon careers and life-changing songs. Prior to arriving in Honolulu, Jia produced a short documentary for Eastern Standard Times Media about Filipino-Korean farming families in the southernmost part of South Korea. The work was funded in part by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Jia’s most personal journalistic undertaking is a work-in-progress biography of her late father, who was a street child during the Korean War era. An avid open-water swimmer who circumnavigated Manhattan Island to close out a 12-year-long chapter in New York City, Jia looks forward to working toward waterwoman status while exploring the islands. She also hopes to build upon seven years of Tahitian dance study and performance with the Lei Pasifika Company back in NYCmore
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12. Cassie Ordonio

Designation Reporter Author Bio Cassie Ordonio was a reporter for Honolulu Civil Beat. She joined the news organization as an intern in 2021, having previously interned at the Honolulu Star-Advertiser for a year, covering the Legislature, social issues, education and more. She also reported for San Francisco-based newspapers El Tecolote, 48 Hills, Ingleside Light and Castro Courier. Cassie, of Filipino and Chamorro descent, was born and raised in California. She recently graduated from the University of Hawaii Manoa with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and Pacific Islands studies. Along with working for Civil... Beat, she is also one of 22 fellows for AAJA Voices, a mentorship program that aims to increase diversity in journalism while providing mentors from the Los Angeles Times and ESPN to train them. When she’s not working, she’s on a desperate search for some good horchata or simply trying to keep her house plants alive.more
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13. Thomas Heaton

Designation Reporter Author Bio Thomas is a reporter for Civil Beat. He joined the news outlet in 2021 as a Li Center for Global Journalism Fellow at Honolulu Civil Beat, position supported by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Institute for Nonprofit News. The Li Center was established to prepare journalists to work, think and report globally. At Civil Beat, Thomas focuses on issues in and around the Pacific. Having recently completed a Master of Arts at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Thomas has previously worked in regional and national news organizations in New Zealand ...and Nepal. A Kiwi by birth, Thomas made his start with a regional daily newspaper in New Zealand, where he covered social issues, health, local politics and general news. He was a finalist for Regional Reporter of the Year at the national media awards for his coverage of regional flooding, and regional health care issues, in his first year of reporting. Later working for Cuisine magazine and Stuff.co.nz as a food reporter, Thomas wrote about everything from fisheries and agriculture to Filipino pinoy and the country’s national pie awards. He eventually followed his stomach to the base of the Himalayas, where he worked for The Nepali Times and The Kathmandu Post. At the Post he was deputy culture and arts editor, and wrote long-form pieces about the food industry, culture, tourism, travel, and restaurant reviews. He spent a few weeks trekking too. Thomas has a propensity for slow travel and secondary fun, and he is always planning the next meal. Despite his army brat upbringing and nomadic life, the Pacific has always been home. He is glad to be back.more
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14. Jack Truesdale

Designation Reporter Author Bio Jack Truesdale is a reporter for Civil Beat covering criminal justice. He previously worked as a general assignment reporter for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and covered Maui as a freelance correspondent for Civil Beat. His writing for magazines has appeared in The New Yorker, Hana Hou and Flux Hawaii. He has a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Brown University.
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15. Allan Kew

Designation Reporter Author Bio Allan Kew was a reporter for Civil Beat. He recently graduated with a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism, where he covered New York City housing, development and subcultures. His thesis documented the lives of the city’s canners – people who survive and thrive off can and bottle deposits. He was born in Minneapolis and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2016, he graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in political science and international relations. He worked in government and public affairs in San Francisco and Washing...ton, D.C., before transitioning to journalism.more
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16. Jake Indursky

Designation Reporter Author Bio Jake Indursky was a reporting intern for Civil Beat. He recently earned dual master’s degrees from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and Columbia School of International and Public and Affairs. In his time at journalism school, he wrote about topics ranging from homelessness in New York City to federal drug approval practices. He was also the recipient of the Phillip Greer Award for Outstanding Financial Writing for his story on the luxury fitness industry. Prior to attending Columbia, Jake spent five years living in New York City where he spent most of his time staring at Exc...el during the day and staring down opposing basketball players at night. He is excited to bring his waning athletic abilities to the pickup courts of Honolulu this summer.more
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17. Alex Eichenstein

Designation Reporter Author Bio Alex Eichenstein was a reporting intern for Civil Beat. She recently earned her master’s degree from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Previously, Alex worked as an audience engagement and social media producer at the Center for Public Integrity. At Public Integrity, she wrote investigative articles about eviction during the pandemic, a shareable flier and resource guide on Medicaid expansion and “Gentrified Identified,” a pop-up newsletter series on gentrification in Washington, D.C. She also created a survey to crowdsource low-income renters’ experiences duri...ng the pandemic and wrote a viral Twitter thread on the release of documents related to President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. As Protocol’s social media editor, Alex worked to grow the newsroom’s social presence on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Additionally, she started the organization’s Reddit account to engage with dedicated, hyper specific communities. Alex is a native New Yorker and earned her bachelor’s degree in English, political science and women and gender studies from the University of Delaware. There, she worked as a writing tutor at the university writing center and served as the editorial editor of The Review, the university’s weekly student-run newspaper. Upon graduating, she was awarded the English department’s Margaret Lynam Tindall Memorial Prize in English Literature and the political science department’s Robert Barrie Ulin Award.more
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18. Victoria Budiono

Designation Reporter Author Bio Victoria Budiono was a reporting intern for Civil Beat. She was born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia and is a recent University of Hawaii Manoa graduate with a dual bachelor’s degree in journalism and psychology.
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19. Madeleine List

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20. Catherine Toth

Designation Reporter Author Bio Born and raised on Oahu, Catherine Toth Fox is an editor, writer, children’s book author, blogger and former journalism instructor. She is currently the editor at large for Hawaii Magazine and lives in Honolulu with her husband, son and two dogs. You can follow her on Instagram @catherinetothfox. Opinions are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Civil Beat's views.
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21. Madeleine Valera

Designation General Assignment Reporter Author Bio Madeleine Valera is a general assignment reporter for Civil Beat. Madeleine previously lived in Miami and worked as a reporter for McClatchy where she covered a variety of stories ranging from rare creature sightings and alligator attacks to police departments and government agencies accused of misconduct. In 2020, Madeleine traveled to Vietnam where she spent about a year teaching English and working as a freelance reporter. She wrote a story for the Southeast Asia Globe about taxi drivers in Ho Chi Minh City serving on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. She also spent time vo...lunteering at an animal shelter, visiting elephants in the rainforest and riding motorbikes through the mountains. Madeleine also worked for the Providence Journal in Rhode Island where she covered city government and the Black Lives Matter movement. She wrote an award-winning piece about how Black women in the state experience higher rates of pregnancy-related complications than white women and often have their concerns overlooked by doctors. Her journalism career began at the Cape Cod Times in Massachusetts, where she worked the late-night police beat. After racing to the scenes of dozens of fires, car crashes and murders, she started delving into deeper issues. She earned a fellowship that took her to John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York to further her investigation into how local police departments were handling sexual assault kits. Madeleine and her boyfriend moved to Hawaii with not much more than some clothes and their inflatable kayak. She loves to explore and learn as much as she can about the world and her local communitiesmore
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22. Marina Starleaf Riker

Designation Maui Reporter Author Bio Marina Starleaf Riker is a reporter covering Maui for Civil Beat. She grew up in Haiku and graduated from University of Hawaii Manoa in 2015. While in college, she got her start in journalism working as an intern for Civil Beat. In the years that followed, she wrote about the Hawaii Legislature for the Associated Press and covered local government for newspapers in Bend, Oregon and Victoria, Texas. Most recently, Marina worked on the San Antonio Express-News’ projects team, where she produced investigations that ranged from examining officials’ lack of communication during Te...xas’ deadly winter freeze to identifying the city’s most prolific evictors, including landlords who profited from taxpayer-funded programs. She has extensive experience reporting on affordable housing, disaster recovery and health care equity.more
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23. Ben Angarone

Designation Reporter Author Bio Ben Angarone is a reporter for Civil Beat. He recently earned a master’s degree at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, focusing on politics and writing his magazine-length thesis on a virtual cryptocurrency community. Ben was born in New Jersey and earned his bachelor’s degree at Princeton. He bounced between different STEM majors before landing on politics, and decided to pursue journalism senior year during a covid-driven virtual semester. Ben wrote feature stories for the Daily Princetonian, chronicling how communities adjusted to the pandemic. In college, Ben led back...packing orientation trips along the East Coast, bringing unsuspecting frosh face-to-face with bears, rocky inclines and cheesy campfire songs. His eternal fun fact is that he used to operate rollercoasters at Six Flags Great Adventure.more
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24. Cammy Clark

Designation News Reporter Author Bio Cammy Clark joined Civil Beat in January 2024 to report about Maui. Her journalism career began in Washington, D.C., and has included stops in Maryland, Florida and California, with her stories appearing in more than 200 publications. After growing up in a small town of 3,000 in New Hampshire, she bolted for the big city of Washington, D.C. to attend American with a goal of becoming an investigative journalist like Woodward or Bernstein. But life serendipitously took her in a different direction. A stint as the sports editor of her college newspaper led to 20 plus years as a pioneering fema...le professional sports journalist. Her first job after college was for NBC Sports, working for The George Michael Sports Machine. She also covered all the Washington professional sports teams as a stringer for United Press International; was a sports copy editor for The Washington Post; and a sports editor of two weekly newspapers in Maryland. Many of the jobs were held simultaneously for experience and to have enough money to pay her rent, college loans and beer tabs. In 1990, she decided she needed more sunshine and became a sportswriter for The St. Petersburg Times in Florida (now the Tampa Bay Times), which is owned by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. She became the newspaper’s first beat writer for the then new franchise, the Tampa Bay Lightning. In 1996, she moved west to cover the NHL and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim for The Orange County Register in California. Over nine years, she traveled across the United States and Canada to report on nearly 800 hockey games and nine Stanley Cup playoffs. For the new millennium, she took a break from ice rinks to travel the world by bicycle with Odyssey 2000. The one-year adventure of a lifetime took her to 41 countries on six continents. She biked about 15,000 miles, with only four crashes. She survived the Mountain of Death in Costa Rica, running over a chicken in Malaysia and eating mystery meat in China. Upon returning to reality, she went to work for the Miami Herald as its auto sportswriter. She got a crash course in NASCAR and the business of car racing. But when the Florida Keys bureau chief position became available, she moved to Key West and spent nearly a decade writing about all aspects of the touristy island chain: environment, business, crime, courts, government, hurricanes, tourism, art, culture, and all things quirk. Stories included county jail inmates scamming the IRS, Cuban exiles setting off fireworks by boat to make Fidel Castro mad, and an intriguing court case of government fraud involving the county’s deceased mayor and The Prince of Darkness. While in the Florida Keys, she spent 3 ½ years as the public information officer for Monroe County. During that time, the county was hit by Category 4 Hurricane Irma. She led the county’s communications during the disaster, which was quite the challenge after the storm with no cell phone or Internet service. In 2019, she moved to Maui after her husband retired from a 30-year career in law enforcement. She worked three years for Pacific Media Group as a writer and editor. Her husband works as a dive boat captain. Cammy’s passions include diving, paddleboarding, tennis, hiking, cycling, golf, trivia night, star gazing, whale watching, local music, photography/videography, exploring new places, rooting for the Patriots — and hanging out with her husband, two cats, family and friends.more
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25. Kathleen Wong

Designation Reporter Author Bio Kathleen Wong is a Honolulu-based reporter covering travel and news related to the islands. She has been published by the New York Times, Vice, the Cut, Insider and more. Previously, she worked at nonprofits such as the Honolulu Museum of Art and ACLU of Hawaii.
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26. Megan Tagami • CalMatters

Designation Reporter Author Bio Megan Tagami is a reporter covering education for Honolulu Civil Beat. Megan earned her degree in political science and public affairs from UCLA, where she wrote for the school paper, the Daily Bruin. Megan previously interned for the Wall Street Journal and CalMatters, covering K-12 and higher education. She also was an intern for Civil Beat. Megan was born and raised in Honolulu. In her free time, she is out looking for a good cup of coffee or finding new hiking trails with her cousin.
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27. Viola Gaskell

Designation Education Reporter Author Bio Viola Gaskell is Civil Beat’s education reporter. Born and raised in Hana, Maui, she grew up in Hawaii public schools, and is deeply interested in the inner workings of the state’s education system and its effects on Hawaii’s youth. After a stint as a foreign correspondent, she returned to Maui in 2021 and became the associate editor of Maui Times, where she wrote, photographed and edited stories for print and online publication. Her coverage of the landmark Hong Kong protest movement was published in papers and on news sites in the U.S., Australia and Europe by DPA dur...ing her year-long tenure with the Berlin-based press agency. Viola has written about Hong Kong and China for news sites like Al Jazeera, The Independent and VICE, and has published dozens of multimedia stories with publications including Flux Hawaii and Whetstone Magazine about topics from Hawaii’s lei industry to air pollution solutions across Asia. In 2020, Viola was a mentor with Solutions Journalism Network for Nigeria-based journalist Ifedayo Ogunyemi.more
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28. Richard Wiens

Designation Editor At Large Author Bio Now an at-large editor for Honolulu Civil Beat, Richard Wiens has been helping to run newsrooms big and small for more than 40 years. He served as news editor at Civil Beat for five years, and has continued to help coordinate its election coverage while editing the Candidate Q&As. Now he is one of the editor/opinion writers involved in the news organization’s Let The Sunshine In project tracking efforts to improve government accountability and transparency in Hawaii. Before coming to Civil Beat, he was editor and publisher of the Del Norte Triplicate, a newspaper in the far-nor...thern California town of Crescent City, also known as the tsunami magnet of the West Coast. There, he coordinated coverage that won numerous statewide awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association, including first place for spot news coverage of a tsunami — spawned by the Japanese earthquake of March 2011 — that destroyed Crescent City Harbor. Prior to that, he helped run the city desks of the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Spokane (Washington) Spokesman-Review and the Los Angeles Daily News. After graduating from the University of Oregon School of Journalism in 1979, he got his start in newspapering at the Hillsboro (Oregon) Argus, where he advanced from reporter to managing editor during his seven-year tenure. He has won statewide first-place awards for feature writing and military coverage, and helped direct coverage of the standoff between white supremacist Randy Weaver and federal agents at Ruby Ridge in North Idaho that was the Pulitzer runner-up for spot news in 1992. Throughout his career, he has pushed for coverage that helps citizens better understand — and hopefully improve — the community they live in.more
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29. James Gonser

Designation Community News Editor Author Bio Reporter James Gonser covered public safety issues for Honolulu Civil Beat from September to December 2022. He began his journalism career at Pacific Business News as a reporter and photographer in 1988 and subsequently worked at the Sun Press weekly newspapers in Kaneohe covering crime and community news. He also worked at The Honolulu Advertiser as a community news reporter and editor for a decade until the newspaper was absorbed by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser in 2010. He then taught journalism at the University of Hawaii Manoa and Chaminade University and was the staff advisor for... the UH student newspaper Ka Leo O Hawaii. Most recently, he worked as a public information officer for the Hawaii Department of Health and as Assistant Director of Communications for the Hawaii House of Representatives. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Hawaii Manoa. He moved from California to Hawaii in 1977 and made the islands his permanent home. He is a world traveler, plays American folk and blues on guitar, and loves animals. He lives in Honolulu with his wife Grace and her cats.more
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30. Matthew Leonard

Designation Data Editor Author Bio Matthew Leonard is the data editor for Civil Beat. He joined the newsroom after more than a decade working in upstate New York and in Nashville. As the Investigations and Special Projects Editor for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Matthew supervised investigations into policing and justice, racial and health disparities and social and environmental justice issues across New York state. He was heavily involved in overhauling the organization’s coverage of public safety issues to be more equitable and inclusive. Born in Sydney, Matthew worked for Australia’s national broa...dcaster and for several Indigenous media and cultural organizations, including in remote homeland communities. He spent five years at Radio New Zealand where he was able to pursue his interest in the cultures of the Pacific. A major project completed during his time in Aotearoa/New Zealand documented the last remnants of old growth forests and their cultural and ecological significance. Matthew originally studied music composition and performance before making his way into public broadcasting, and continues to have a strong interest in music, sound design and audio production. He is a keen ocean swimmer, amateur musician and cooks a mean chili.more
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31. Jessica Terrell

Designation Projects Editor Author Bio Jessica Terrell is the projects editor for Civil Beat. Jessica joined Civil Beat in 2015, after reporting stints at the Orange County Register in California and Tribeca Trib in New York City. She served as the lead reporter and then editor of Civil Beat’s Offshore Podcast, which launched in 2016. The podcast received 2020 and 2018 Eppy awards, as well as recognition from the Asian American Journalists Association, Best of the West, and Religion News Association. Her 2015 series, “The Harbor,” about life in Hawaii’s largest homeless encampment, garnered a first ...place Online News Association award for small newsroom feature. The project also received an honorable mention from the Ancil Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism. She is a member of ONA’s 2018 Women’s Leadership Accelerator cohort. As a reporter, Jessica has investigated everything from school safety concerns to faulty public works projects and military recruitment irregularities. She’s covered two national political conventions, and filed stories from the White House during President Barack Obama’s first summer in office. Other memorable reporting assignments include camping out overnight in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park for a story on Occupy Wall Street, visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial before it opened with members of Manhattan’s Community Board 1, and climbing 36 flights of stairs in the dark after Hurricane Sandy to find her editor and start reporting on the impacts of the storm in lower Manhattan. Jessica spent much of her childhood traveling around North America. She wrote her first newspaper article at the age of 12 for a small paper in Massachusetts, where her family was living aboard a 50-foot raft built out of materials collected from New York City dumpsters. When her family wasn’t building rafts, they were performing together in circuses and busking on the streets as a family jazz band. Spending her early years wandering from town to town imbued her with a passion for discovery that she tries to translate into work as a journalist.more
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32. Naka Nathaniel

Designation Editor At Large Author Bio Naka Nathaniel has returned to regular journalism after being the primary parent for his son. In those 13 years, his child has only been to the ER five times (three due to animal attacks.) Before parenting, Naka was known as an innovative journalist. He was part of the team that launched NYTimes.com in 1996 and he led a multimedia team that pioneered many new approaches to storytelling. On 9/11, he filmed the second plane hitting the South Tower. His footage aired on the television networks and a sequence was the dominant image on NYTimes.com. While based in Paris for The New York Tim...es, he developed a style of mobile journalism that gave him the ability to report from anywhere on the planet. He covered the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and was detained while working in Iran, Sudan, Gaza and China. He is one of a handful of Americans who has been in North Korea, but not South Korea. He worked in 60 countries and made The Times’s audience care about sex trafficking, climate change and the plight of women and children in the developing world. Besides conflict, The Times also had Naka covering fashion shows, car shows and Olympics. He did all three of those events in the same week (Paris, Geneva and Turin) before going to Darfur to continue reporting on the genocide (it was the fifth of sixth trips to the region.) Naka lives in Waimea on the Big Island and his writing for Civil Beat will initially focus on his reflections on moving home.more
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33. Chad Blair

Designation Politics And Opinion Editor Author Bio Chad Blair has been a writer, editor and teacher in Honolulu for more than 25 years. His job as reporter and editor is to cover Hawaii, especially how political decisions impact people and communities. Chad has worked as a journalist for Pacific Business News, Hawaii Public Radio and Honolulu Weekly. He has taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu Community College, Hawaii Pacific University and Chaminade University of Honolulu. A “military brat,” Chad was born on an Army base in Alabama and later lived with his family in Germany, Illinois, Nebraska and Kwajalein i...n the Marshall Islands. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, where he edited the school newspaper. He also minored in Spanish and studied for a semester in Mexico. Chad worked for a year on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, where he tracked satellites for the U.S. Air Force/NORAD. He then earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in American studies from UH Manoa. His dissertation, “Democracy in Hawaii: Class, Race and Gender in Local Politics” (1996), was published as “Money, Color and Sex in Hawaii Politics” (Mutual Publishing; 1998).more
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34. Patti Epler

Designation Editor And General Manager Author Bio Patti Epler is the Editor and General Manager of Civil Beat. Patti has been a reporter and editor since 1976. She began her career in Anchorage, Alaska, writing a column for The Anchorage Times and covering cops and courts in the frontier state at a time construction of the massive trans-Alaska pipeline was drawing thousands of young people north and opening up a new energy source for the country. Patti moved to Hawaii in 1982 where she lived on a 41-foot sailboat in Keehi Lagoon and worked for Honolulu Magazine. She returned to Alaska in 1984 to a job covering the state’s booming ...oil and gas business, utilities, mining and environmental issues. In 1989, she was one of the lead reporters on the Exxon Valdez oil spill. She was also a member of the Anchorage Daily News team that won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal For Public Service for a series on alcoholism and self-destructive behavior among Alaska Natives. In 1990, she and her family, including a young daughter, moved to Olympia, Washington, where Patti covered politics and the Legislature for the Tacoma News Tribune. In 1997, she moved to Phoenix, Arizona, and an editor’s job at the alt-weekly, Phoenix New Times. In 2004, she became projects editor and city editor at the East Valley Tribune, at the time the Phoenix metro area’s second largest daily paper. In 2008, Patti edited and directed that paper’s series on the immigration enforcement practices of a colorful local sheriff, an effort that was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. She moved to the online news world in 2009, joining with other journalists to found the Arizona Guardian, a short-lived news site covering politics and government. In 2010, she returned to Alaska to work on another reporter-founded website, the Alaska Dispatch. She was hired as Civil Beat’s deputy editor in September 2011 and was named Editor when former Editor John Temple left to take a job as managing editor of the Washington Post in April 2012. Patti is an old-school investigative journalist in a new media world. She still values solid relationships with news sources and strong journalistic ethics. Like many of her colleagues, she’s been laid off (more than once) from what were once vibrant and thriving newspapers. She is now a true believer in online journalism and all that the internet has to offer news operations that embrace meaningful reporting and investigative and watchdog journalism to encourage community discussion of important civic and political issues. Those concepts are at the core of Civil Beat. She’s always available to grab a cup of coffee and talk about Hawaii and story ideas.more
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35. John Hill

Designation Investigations Editor Author Bio John Hill is the Investigations Editor at Honolulu Civil Beat. He meandered back and forth across the U.S. for two-plus decades as a newspaper reporter — with stops in Northern California, New York City, New Orleans, Albuquerque and back to Northern California — before abandoning the mainland altogether to come to Civil Beat in July 2016. In 2005, he won the George Polk Award for documenting abuses of the California pension and disability systems, most notably by the top brass of the California Highway Patrol. In New Orleans, he was part of a team of reporters that did a year-lo...ng series on race relations honored for public service by the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Headliner Awards. In 2009, John left journalism to work for a California Senate office that investigated shortcomings in state government. His reports focused on the state’s failure to prevent elder abuse and monitor deaths in residential drug treatment programs, among other topics, and led to legislation and administrative reforms. In 2014, the Senate eliminated his office and he worked for a year-and-a-half as press secretary for the California State Controller. John recognizes that the best investigations start with tips, and encourages Civil Beat readers to contact him with stories of skullduggery, malfeasance and garden-variety ineptitude.more
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36. David Croxford

Designation Visuals Editor Author Bio David Croxford is the Visuals Editor for Honolulu Civil Beat, where he is attempting to archive the complete visual catalog of Civil Beat while engaging as often as possible in capturing the stories that Civil Beat pursues on a daily basis. Prior to coming to Civil Beat, David was the award-winning Chief Photographer for PacificBasin Communications (AIO Media Group) from 2007 until 2022. His work has appeared in Honolulu Magazine, Hawaii Business Magazine, HAWAII Magazine, Hawaii Home & Remodeling Magazine, Honolulu Family Magazine and the other companies within the AIO brand spectrum, ...as well as contributing to various advertising campaigns created by the media groups. His photographic client list includes McGraw Hill publishing, Journal Register Publishing and Patuxent Publishing, and a variety of media consortiums. David’s photographic experience dates back to the early 1980s when he first began working professionally as a photojournalist for several regional newspapers in Oregon. He later moved to the East Coast where he worked with major publishing groups in a freelance capacity. David also has a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and has studied pastoral theology for a Master of Divinity program at George Fox Seminary in Portland, Oregon. Favorite subjects you ask? Big Wave surfing, any kind of aircraft from early biplanes to Mach 3 jets and the Moon in any phase!more
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37. Brittany Lyte

Designation Staff Writer Author Bio Brittany Lyte is a general assignment reporter for Civil Beat who specializes in watchdog reporting, narrative storytelling and coverage of neighbor island and social issues. Prior to joining the Honolulu newsroom in March 2018, Brittany lived on the north shore of Kaua’i, where she juggled a freelance writing career. Her writing during this period appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and Hana Hou! magazine. In 2021 she moved back to Kaua’i to help expand Civil Beat’s coverage on the outer islands. Previously, she worke...d for Hearst Newspapers in Connecticut. An Upstate New York native, she has a degree in journalism from Boston University. In a decade of reporting, Brittany has traveled to Russia, Poland and across the U.S., interviewing subjects ranging from the Dalai Lama to Ghostface Killah of the Wu-Tang Clan. Her writing has explored a similarly vast range of topics, from the plight of an accused cannibal on the run from police to an investigation into undocumented toxic waste buried beneath suburban Connecticut homes. Her series on the latter subject earned national accolades and inspired the state legislature to adopt a new real estate disclosure law to better protect homebuyers. In pursuit of a good story, Brittany has learned to fly an M-26 Air Wolf and chased down a suspected killer while wearing heels and a silk dress.more
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38. Marcel Honore

Designation Staff Writer Author Bio Marcel Honore primarily covers the environment and rail for Civil Beat — and he’s always on the lookout for ways to describe the local transit project other than “cash-strapped,” “beleaguered” and “financially challenged” in his reports. A native of Los Angeles, Marcel moved to Oahu in January 2013 and spent nearly five years covering transportation for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. He also served as the paper’s main correspondent covering the Hokule’a’s three-year worldwide voyage, sailing aboard the canoe on several of its ...international legs. Prior to his Hawaii arrival, Marcel worked at the Palm Springs, California, Desert Sun, where he covered city government and immigration issues. His investigations into arsenic-tinged drinking water, foul odors emanating from a contaminated-soil facility and other environmental challenges affecting that region garnered several awards, including a 2011 California Newspaper Publishers Award. Marcel started his journalism career as a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where he served as a Washington, D.C., correspondent for The Seattle Times and the Santa Barbara News-Press. While at Northwestern he also worked at the Associated Press’ Caracas, Venezuela, bureau covering policies under then-President Hugo Chavez. Marcel should be a much better surfer than he currently is. He sincerely apologizes for dropping in on your wave.more
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39. Kevin Fujii

Designation Staff Photographer Author Bio Kevin Fujii is a staff photographer for Civil Beat. Previously, Kevin worked for The Seattle Times, Houston Chronicle and Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram newspapers. Kevin was a general assignment photographer shooting for every section of the newspaper, but specialized in sports and food photography. In 2010 Kevin led The Seattle Times photography staff to win the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News. Kevin is a four-time Olympic Games photographer and covered other high-profile sporting events including the Super Bowl, World Series, Stanley Cup, Final Four and NCAA Bowl Championship Games.... Kevin and his rescue Catahoula Leopard dog Monty have relocated from the mainland to be closer to ohana. He is still getting used to saying his surname with an extra “i” instead of pronouncing it like the film.more
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40. Nick Grube

Designation Author Author Bio Nick Grube is the Washington, D.C. correspondent for Honolulu Civil Beat. Prior to that he was an investigative reporter focusing on criminal justice and legal affairs, a position that led him to one of the largest public corruption scandals in Hawaii history. The case, which is still ongoing, resulted in the federal indictment of a former police chief, his prosecutor wife and several police officers. Nick’s coverage of police misconduct has resulted in several changes to Hawaii law, including the creation of a new oversight agency to make sure officers meet minimum training standards... and requirements. His series on problem officers in the Honolulu Police Department helped spur the creation of the Civil Beat Law Center for the Public Interest, a nonprofit law firm that helps citizens and journalists get access to public records. The law center has represented Civil Beat in several cases some of which have been argued before the Hawaii Supreme Court. In 2015, Nick and a colleague undertook a investigative project that uncovered major shortcomings in financial oversight of Honolulu’s multi-billion dollar rail project that was both behind schedule and over-budget. As a result, the Honolulu City Council changed city law to require the agency overseeing the project to provide more detailed financial information to the public about the subcontractors working on the project. Nick’s career in journalism began at the University of Wisconsin—Madison and took him to California, Oregon, Hawaii and Washington, D.C. He’s covered everything from prison gangs to politics. His work has been recognized by several organizations, including the California Newspaper Publishers Association, Society of Professional Journalists and Online News Association. He was selected in 2018 by the National Press Foundation for the Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship, a nine month program for promising young journalists based in the nation’s capital.more
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41. Ku'u Kauanoe

Designation Digital Producer Author Bio Kuʻu Kauanoe joined Honolulu Civil Beat as a digital producer in November 2018. Born and raised on Oʻahu, she’s spent most of her life on the Westside, graduating from Kapolei High School in 2011 and University of Hawaii West Oahu in 2016. Kuʻu holds a dual degree in English literature and creative media. Her greatest passion is serving her community through storytelling.
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42. April Estrellon

Designation Interactive Developer And Multimedia Producer Author Bio As Civil Beat’s interactive developer and multimedia producer, April Estrellon designs and develops web applications to help bring news stories to life. Since joining Civil Beat, she has created numerous videos, graphics and animation for the website, as well as produced Civil Beat’s award winning Offshore podcast. April has degrees in journalism and anthropology from the University of Hawaii Manoa. She once had dreams of being an archaeologist, but soon realized that it’s nothing like Indiana Jones and that she prefers telling stories to digging and lab work.
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43. Courtney Teague

Designation Audience Director Author Bio Courtney Teague is the director of audience at Civil Beat. She is the editor of Civil Beat’s newsletters, including the Morning Beat, and builds digital audiences across multiple platforms. She holds degrees in English and philosophy from the University of Hawaii Manoa, where she caught the journalism bug as an editor of her college newspaper, Ka Leo O Hawaii. Her first job in journalism was at Civil Beat, where she covered a variety of topics including state government and education as an intern and fellow. Courtney’s reporting has since appeared in newspapers big and small ...across the world but she’s especially proud of the recipes and cooking tutorials she shares through her food blog, Feed the Soul.more
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44. Cory Lum

Designation Photojournalist Author Bio Honolulu @civilbeat photojournalist. Thirsty and hungry traveler. Tweets & photographs are my own.
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45. Kim Gamel

Designation Managing Editor Author Bio Deputy Editor @civilbeat. Ex-Korea correspondent @starsandstripes; news editor @AP in Baghdad, Cairo, Stockholm etc. @UMKnightWallace fellow ’15. Loves ✈️☕️????
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46. Lauren Teruya

Designation Journalist Author Bio Journalist @civilbeat Former Intern @buzzfeednews M.A. Specialized Journalism @USC
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47. Marcel Honoré

Designation Staff Writer Author Bio @CivilBeat Staff Writer. Unfrozen Caveman Journalist. Formerly @staradvertiser, @mydesert
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48. Randy Ching

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