HawaiiReporter.com
HawaiiReporter.com is a Hawaii-based online news and opinion magazine. Its viewpoint is conservative (neo-con), although HawaiiReporter.com prints all editorials submitted so long as they are clear. In 2004, during a contentious race between Mufi Hannemann and Duke Bainum for Honolulu mayor, HawaiiReporter.com was the only media to report on a court case in which Bainum's wife, Jennifer Alonso Toma, was accused of financially taking advantage of an elderly client named Masumi Murasaki when she was his caregiver. Bainum ultimately lost the race to Hannemann. 1.
It is known for publishing articles directly from the discredited Talon News.
HawaiiReporter.com was founded in November 2002 by Malia Zimmerman and Jay McWilliams, both who have served as reporters and editors for many publications in Hawaii. Focusing on Government and Politics, business, and education, HawaiiReporter.com also collects and researches 20 kinds of public records and has contributed to a number of books published in the United States and Japan on these issues.
Cofounder Malia Zimmerman was fired from Pacific Business News for unspecified reasons and then founded Hawaii Reporter. 2
A co-founder of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, a neo-con think tank, Zimmerman has hosted an ongoing debate in HawaiiReporter.com on the Hawaiian sovereignty movement publishing opinion pieces both critical and favorable to the Akaka Bill. The bill ultimately failed to pass the U.S. Senate in June 2006 when proponents could not gather enough votes to force a cloture vote - in part because the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the U.S. Justice Department said the bill was unconstitutional and racially divisive and therefore should not be passed.
External links
- HawaiiReporter.com website
- "The Smear Makers", Honolulu Weekly, September 6, 2000. The controversy surrounding Malia Zimmerman and the Voter Integrity Project.
- ""Island Ire: Reporter sues Hawaii governor after losing her job", American Journalism Review, January/February 2001.
- John Fund, "Trouble in Paradise", Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2002. - John Fund discusses Hawaii Reporter, the related Grassroot Institute of Hawaii and the unseating of the Democratic party.
- "Ian Lind online from Kaaawa, Hawaii", iLind.net, August 1, 2003. Reference to Malia Zimmerman as girlfriend of Senator Sam Slom (R-HI) and controversy surrounding Pacific Business News firing her over possible early disclosure of documents.
- "Heroes of Democracy: How three citizens repelled a Republican assault on the integrity of our election process", Honolulu Weekly, September 17, 2003. Reference to Governor Linda Lingle election campaign.
- Hawaii Real Estate Investors, "August Monthly Meeting", July 2004 - Hawaii Reporter background by co-founder Jay McWilliams.
- "Small Business Awards Presented", Small Business Hawaii, February 4, 2005.