June 2022 Gleanings
Note from the Editor
We’ve been kind of quiet, but we’re still working behind the scenes! Next on our agenda is our annual scholarship celebration. Details are still in the works, but we’ve nailed down a date and an awesome speaker. We’re still mulling over the applications for four $1,000 scholarships – or maybe more depending on the quality of our responses. We love nurturing budding journalists. We’re also getting ready to launch a new way to reach out and hear from our membership, and working on an updated website. Stay tuned! Have something for Gleanings? Email me: nclauer@gmail.com.
BIPC annual scholarship dinner to feature Civil Beat’s Chad Blair
Mark your calendars for July 28, 6 p.m. in Hilo. Restaurant venue to be announced soon.
The press club annually awards scholarships at this dinner to students pursuing a higher education in journalism or a related field.
Chad Blair
Chad Blair has been a writer, editor and teacher in Honolulu for more than 30 years. His job as politics and opinion editor for Honolulu Civil Beat is to cover Hawaii, especially how political and policy decisions impact people and communities.
Civil Beat was founded in 2010 by Pierre Omidyar, the publisher and the founder of eBay. It is a nonprofit media outlet.
Blair was the lead author on a series on Micronesian immigration to the United States published by Civil Beat. “The Micronesians” earned first place for online presentation as well as for immigration and border reporting, Best of the West 2016.
Blair 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. Blair 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). You can follow Blair on Twitter at @chadblairCB
Get ready for Springly
Your Treasurer, Michael Phillips, has been busy migrating our club roster, website, communications, and accounting onto a new platform from Springly.
Springly is used by more than 20,000 organizations around the world to help with membership management. In addition to hosting our website and emails, the Springly platform will also handle membership registration and renewals, ticket sales for future Big Island Press Club events, and more! The system will also produce IRS‐friendly receipts and records for those wishing to donate to our Foundation on a one time or ongoing basis.
As this migration process continues, you’ll be getting email updates to verify and/or pay your membership dues. Emails will come from “Springly” and “Big island Press Club” –if you’re ever concerned about the legitimacy of an email, feel free to reach out to Michael for help and advice: mphillips@weatherboy.com
You’ll see and hear more about Springly from us this summer as the migration and set‐up is completed.
2022 Big Island Press Club Board
Please feel free to contact any board members with your suggestions, or if you wish to volunteer!
President: John Burnett, journalist, Tribune‐Herald jburnett@hawaiitribune‐herald.com
Vice President: Karin Stanton, journalist, Hawaii 24/7, stanton96740@yahoo.com
Treasurer: Michael Phillips, journalist, meteorologist, Weatherboy.com, mphillips@weatherboy.com
Secretary: Tiffany Edwards Hunt, former journalist, advisor to middle school & UH student newspapers, newswoman@mac.com
Director: Ross Wilson, PR, Current Events rossw@current‐events.com
Director: Royelen Lee Boykie, exploring opportunities to serve The Big Island Royelen@bigislandpressclub.org
Director: Patsy Iwasaki, professor, University of Hawaii‐Hilo, piwasaki@hawaii.edu
Director: Nate Gaddis, former journalist, real estate agent, nategaddis@gmail.com
Immediate Past President: Nancy Cook Lauer, journalist, West Hawaii Today, nclauer@gmail.com
