Honolulu Civil Beat is a digital news service that says its mission is "to engage and educate the community on important public issues through in-depth reporting, explanatory and investigative journalism, analysis and commentary."
Billionaire Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, launched Civil Beat in 2010. It continues to receive "major support" from Pierre and Pam Omidyar through the Omidyar Ohana Fund. Civil Beat dropped its paywall in June 2016 and transitioned to 501(c)3 nonprofit status. It is a member of the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), a coalition of more than 400 nonprofit news organizations across the U.S. which provides education and business suppport services to its members.
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Honolulu Mayoral Candidate Removes City Beat from Media List
-- Ben Cayetano, 72, a candidate for mayor of Honolulu, informed Honolulu Civil Beat editor John Temple that he will no longer respond to communications from City Beat reporter Michael Levine.
As Temple writes in Cayetano Cuts Civil Beat From Campaign Media List, Cayetano doesn't appear to like the way Levine, or City Beat, covers him:
"The article that prompted Cayetano to send me an e-mail at 7:29 a.m....
Competing Paywalls Do Battle In the Pacific
-- As of the first week of August, 2011, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser began charging for online content -- and that means all online content, unlike, say, the New York Times, which offers a monthly allowance for a certain number of stories before charges kick in.
The Star-Advertiser will have something of a war on its hands, as Honolulu Civil Beat, an online-only news source, is already an...
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