August 2022 Newsletter
Welcome to AAJA Hawai‘i’s monthly newsletter! Here, you’ll find chapter updates, upcoming events, member bylines and more.
If you have a story or career update you want to share with our AAJA family, let us know at hawaii@aaja.org!
Chapter Updates
Join us at our pau hana and fundraiser at Beerworks Honolulu on Wednesday, August 17, from 6 to 8 p.m.! This event is part of a multi-chapter effort to support the Asian American Journalists Association. Member Kimberly Yuen is running in the NYC Marathon in November as part of Team AAJA, and she’ll be fundraising on behalf of the New York and Hawai‘i chapters.
Funds raised for the Hawai‘i chapter will support local student journalists: https://fundraisers.hakuapp.com/kimberly-yuen
Please let us know if you would like to attend: https://tinyurl.com/aajahi2022. Feel free to email hawaii@aaja.org with any questions.
Member News
Congratulations to AAJA Hawai‘i treasurer Jason Ubay on his recent promotion to managing editor of Hawai‘i Public Radio!
Member Bylines
“Home for Sale” Sometimes Means Renters are Displaced
Noelle Fujii-Oride of Hawaii Business Magazine reported on a darker side of Hawai‘i’s hot housing market: When local renters are displaced due to sales or renovations. “It’s unclear how often this happens, but we’ve heard stories from renters on O‘ahu, Kaua‘i, Maui and Hawai‘i Island.”
In 32-year career, schools superintendent Keith Hayashi emphasizes importance of giving back
Hawai‘i Public Radio’s Casey Harlow digs into who DOE Superintendent Keith Hayashi is as a person. “What keeps me up at night I think is, am I doing all I can to make a difference to support our system? But I think the great thing is that it’s not just me, we have a lot of hands working together,” Hayshi told Harlow.
As interest rates tick up, Hawai‘i financial experts say now’s the time to pay down debt
Hawaii News Now’s Annalisa Burgos dug into the local impacts from the fourth rate hike of 2022. “Local financial experts say as the cost to borrow money has been so low, many consumers have racked up debt and spent beyond their means. They’re advising clients to be more disciplined with their spending.”
Building damage estimated to be over $1.1M to historic Boyd-Irwin Estate with ties to Hawaiian royalty
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s Diane Lee reported on the fire damage to the historic Boyd-Irwin Estate in Maunawili. The structure essentially burned to the ground until “nothing was left except for the chimney,” HFD officials said.
UH Gets $700K To Study Racism And Lung Cancer
Honolulu Civil Beat’s Anita Hofschneider reports on UH Cancer Center researchers who intend to study racial and ethnic disparities in smoking and lung cancer risk. “Researchers from the UH Cancer Center and the University of Southern California previously conducted the Multiethnic Cohort Study that found Native Hawaiians and African Americans had higher risk of developing lung cancer compared to white people, whereas Japanese Americans and Latinos had lower risks of lung cancer.”
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