| The Honolulu Advertiser | |
|---|---|
 The October 16, 2006 front page of The Honolulu Advertiser | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Gannett Company |
| Publisher | Lee Webber |
| Editor | Mark Platte |
| Founded | 1856 (as the Pacific Commercial Advertiser) |
| Headquarters | 605 Kapiʻolani Blvd. Events 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. Broadsheet is the largest of the various Newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages (typically 22 inches or more Gannett Company Inc ( is a publicly-traded media Holding company based in the United States. Year 1856 ( MDCCCLVI) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Honolulu, Hawaii 96813  United States |
| Circulation | 141,934 Morning 155,932 Sunday[1] |
| Website: honoluluadvertiser.com | |
The Honolulu Advertiser is the largest daily newspaper in the American state of Hawaiʻi. Honolulu is the Capital and most populous Census-designated place (CDP in the U The State of Hawaii ( or həˈwaɪʔiː Hawaiian: Mokuāina o Hawaii) is a state in the United States located on an Archipelago in the The United States of America —commonly referred to as the This is a list of the daily Newspapers in the World by average circulation A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. A US state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States of America that share Sovereignty with the federal government The State of Hawaii ( or həˈwaɪʔiː Hawaiian: Mokuāina o Hawaii) is a state in the United States located on an Archipelago in the It publishes daily with special Sunday and Internet editions. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks Owned by Gannett Pacific Corporation since 1992, The Honolulu Advertiser is the parent publisher of Island Weekly, Navy News, Army Weekly, Ka Nupepa People, West Oahu People, Leeward People, East Oahu People, Windward People, Metro Honolulu People, and Honolulu People small, community-based newspapers for the public. Gannett Company Inc ( is a publicly-traded media Holding company based in the United States.
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Henry M. Whitney
Businessman and son of Congregational missionaries, Henry M. Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing Congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently A missionary is a member of a Religion who works to convert those who do not share the missionary's faith someone who proselytizes. Whitney founded the Pacific Commercial Advertiser in 1856, a weekly newspaper that was circulated primarily in the whaling port of Honolulu. Whaling is the hunting of Whales and dates back to at least 6000 BC Honolulu is the Capital and most populous Census-designated place (CDP in the U The inaugural edition was published on July 2 of that year with this statement from Whitney:
- Thank Heaven, the day at length has dawned when the Hawaiian nation can boast a free press, untrammeled by government patronage or party pledges, unbiased by ministerial frowns or favors. Events 310 - Pope Miltiades is elected 626 - In fear of assassination Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival
The biggest story in the first edition was a report on the wedding of Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma. Kamehameha IV, born Alexander Iolani Liholiho Keawenui, reigned as the fourth king of the united Kingdom of Hawai‘i from 11 January 1855 to Emma Kalanikaumakaamano Kaleleonalani Naea Rooke Queen Consort of Hawaii ( January 2, 1836 &ndash April 25, 1885) was queen to King However, the front page was devoted almost exclusively to advertisements. Advertising is a form of Communication that typically attempts to persuade potential Customers to Purchase or to consume more of a particular Brand Throughout the paper, Whitney posted fifty-two advertisements for sailing ships in port at Honolulu Harbor with three hundred vessel timetables. In 1870, Whitney went broke and was forced to sell the Commercial Advertiser to James Black and William Auld, local printers. Whitney stayed on as the newspaper's editor.
Claus Spreckles
In 1880, Black and Auld sold the Pacific Commercial Advertiser to Claus Spreckles. Claus Spreckels, formally Adolph Claus J Spreckels ( July 9, 1828 - December 26, 1908) (his last name has also been spelled as Vehemently opposed to Spreckles' conservative and pro-monarchy political stance, Whitney, as a devout annexationist, resigned as editor. In his place, Wallace Rider Farrington, future Governor of the Territory of Hawaii, arrived from Maine to become the new editor. Wallace Rider Farrington ( May 3 1871 &ndash October 6 1933) was the sixth Territorial Governor of Hawai{{okina}}i, serving from 1921 The Governor of Hawaii, also called Ke Kiaaina o Hawaii, is the chief executive of the State of Hawai{{okina}}i and its various agencies The Territory of Hawaii, abbreviated officially as TH, was established on July 7, 1898 and dissolved on August 21, 1959 when The State of Maine ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean Spreckles' royalist slant in his editorial articles were deplored by most of the American businessmen residing in Hawaiʻi at the time. Revenue suffered as a result, forcing Spreckles to eventually sell the Pacific Commercial Advertiser.
Lorrin A. Thurston and Son
In 1888, Spreckles sold his newspaper to the Hawaiian Gazette Company. It in turn sold the newspaper in 1895 to Lorrin A. Thurston, a former cabinet minister in the administration of King Kalākaua. Lorrin Andrews Thurston (1857–1931 was a lawyer born and raised in the Kingdom of Hawai{{okina}}i who published the Pacific Commercial Advertiser (forerunner Kalākaua I, born as David Laamea Kamanakapuu Mahinulani Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani Kalākaua and called The Merrie Monarch ( November 16, 1836 Thurston had been instrumental to the overthrow of the monarchy and the end of the existence of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. The Kingdom of Hawaii was established during the years 1795 to 1810 with the subjugation of the smaller independent chiefdoms of O{{okina}}ahu, Thurston was also the author of the "Bayonet Constitution" of 1887 which he forced King Kalakāua to sign, backed by an armed militia. The 1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii stripped the Hawaiian monarchy of much of its authority disenfranchising most of the native population and initiating a transfer The term militia is commonly used today to refer to a military force composed of ordinary Citizens to provide defense emergency law enforcement or Paramilitary service The constitution stripped the monarchy of all authority, took away many rights of native Hawaiians to vote in elections, and granted voting rights to American residents, even those who did not have citizenship in the kingdom. The Constitution of the State of Hawaiʻi refers to various legal documents throughout the history of the Hawaiian Islands that defined the fundamental principles of authority "Kanaka" redirects here For the Tamil actress see Kanaka (actress.
In 1921, Thurston changed the name of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser to The Honolulu Advertiser. The following year, Thurston hired Raymond S. Coll to be the newspaper editor. Coll served in that capacity until his retirement in 1959.
In 1931, Lorrin P. Thurston took over his father's position as editor and president of The Honolulu Advertiser. He would later become chairman of the Hawaii Statehood Commission. Upon Raymond Coll's retirement, Thurston hired George Chaplin, former editor of the military newspaper Pacific Stars and Stripes, as the editor of The Honolulu Advertiser. He would serve in this capacity for 28 years.
Thurston Twigg-Smith and George Chaplin
In 1961, Thurston Twigg-Smith continued family ownership as he inherited The Honolulu Advertiser from his uncle. Thurston Twigg-Smith a fifth generation Hawai{{okina}}i native was born in 1921 in Honolulu, Hawaii He remained publisher and president until 1986. With the coupling of Chaplin and Twigg-Smith, The Honolulu Advertiser shifted its political slant from a staunchly conservative pro-Big Five newspaper to become a more moderate, racially progressive newspaper. The Hawaii Republican Party is the state affiliate of the Republican Party of the United States. Both were enormously influenced by the rising local Chinese American, Filipino American and Japanese American readership and worked to cater to these communities' news interests. Chinese Americans ( Chinese: 华裔美国人 are Americans of Chinese descent Filipino Americans are Americans of Philippine ancestry which trace back to the Philippines, an archipelagic nation in Southeast Asia. are Americans of Japanese heritage Japanese Americans have historically been among the three largest Asian American communities but in recent decades have become the sixth largest group In 1967, Twigg-Smith formed the Persis Corporation (known as Asa Hawaii Corporation until 1978) as the Advertiser's parent company.
Gannett Pacific Corporation
In 1992, The Honolulu Advertiser was purchased by the Gannett Pacific Corporation, a subsidiary of Gannett Company Incorporated. [2] It became the first morning edition publication in Ganett's corporate history. The company had already owned Honolulu's other major newspaper, the Star-Bulletin, since 1973. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, based in Honolulu, Hawai{{okina}}i, is the second largest daily newspaper in the state of Hawai{{okina}}i (the largest From 1962 to 2001, both dueling newspapers were administered under a joint operating agreement under which they shared printing and advertising operations but kept separate editorial staff and printing functions. The Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 was an Act of the United States Congress, signed by President Richard Nixon, that authorized the formation The agreement ended when the Honolulu Star-Bulletin was sold to a separate company.
Advertiser Building
The Honolulu Advertiser staff occupies the Advertiser Building on 605 Kapiʻolani Boulevard in downtown Honolulu. Downtown Honolulu is the current and historic central part of Honolulu &mdashbounded by Nuuanu Stream to the west Ward Avenue to the east Vineyard Boulevard to the north Built in 1929 by the architectural firm Emory & Webb in the beaux arts style, the Advertiser Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Beaux Arts architecture denotes the academic classical Architectural style that was taught at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP is the United States government's official list of districts sites buildings structures and objects deemed worthy of From the 1930s through the 1950s the building's roof sported two radio towers with the transmitting antenna of AM radio station KGU strung between them.
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- ^ Gannett Co. , Inc. . About Gannett: The Honolulu Advertiser. Retrieved on 2006-10-16. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western
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