October 2024
Tuesday, October 15Civil Beat: How Profiling A Candidate For UH President Turned Up A Serious Complaint
September 2024
Sunday, September 15Why Is No One Really Listening To What The Westside Is Saying?
Monday, September 9The FBI Continues To Stall On Releasing Hawaii Lawmakers’ Bribery Investigations
June 2024
Sunday, June 23What To Expect When You Submit A Community Voice
March 2024
Tuesday, March 26If Electronic Monitoring Is Going To Expand In Hawaii, There Needs To Be Better Public Data
February 2024
Wednesday, February 21A Civil Beat Reporter Stumbled On Boxes Of Hawaii Letters Stored Away, Unseen, Since The 1800s
January 2024
Friday, January 5Civil Beat Could Take To The Airwaves. Tell Us — And The FCC — What You Think
October 2023
Monday, October 2Civil Beat: Our Maui Fire Coverage Is Just Beginning
September 2023
Monday, September 4‘The Lives We Lost’ Tells A Different Story About The People Who Died In Lahaina
August 2023
Sunday, August 20Bare-Knuckle Reporting On Maui Fires Runs Headlong Into Culture of ‘Aloha And Kindness’
June 2023
Monday, June 19Why We’re Stepping Up Our Solutions Journalism Coverage
May 2023
Wednesday, May 17Here’s What You’ve Been Telling Us At Our Pop-Up Newsrooms
Friday, May 5The Investigation Into Public Corruption In Hawaii Is Very Much Alive
February 2023
Tuesday, February 21The Military’s Public Information Black Hole
January 2023
Tuesday, January 17Vicky Cayetano Is No Longer A Civil Beat Columnist. Here’s Why
November 2022
Sunday, November 13Ian Lind: My 5 Years Of Reporting On The Mike Miske Saga
August 2022
Tuesday, August 2How A Messy Divorce Case Led To A Legal Battle Over Press Freedom In Hawaii
June 2022
Friday, June 17Stop Or I’ll Shoot — Or Maybe Not. Media Training Shows Pressures Police Officers Face
February 2022
Sunday, February 6Why We Removed A Recent Column About Kirk Caldwell
January 2022
Tuesday, January 258 Years Of Fighting The Police Union In Court And What Did We Get? Quite A Lot, It Turns Out
November 2021
Sunday, November 14How A Faulty Assumption Led To Errors In A Civil Beat Story
February 2021
Friday, February 19Civil Beat Is Ending Its Daily Virus Tracker. Here’s Why
Monday, February 1The How And Why Behind Civil Beat’s Daily Virus Tracker
December 2020
Wednesday, December 2The Sorry State Of Public Information In Hawaii – And Why You Should Care
June 2020
Wednesday, June 2420 Years Of Honolulu Police Misconduct Summaries Document Serious Bad Behavior
May 2020
Monday, May 11Sex Abuse Cases Pose Dilemma For Media: How Much To Disclose?
April 2020
Thursday, April 2How We’re Covering The Coronavirus Crisis
November 2019
Tuesday, November 26Why Civil Beat Fought For Teacher Discipline Records
Friday, November 15My Slog To Find Rare Birds In A Remote Maui Rainforest
Friday, November 1Why We Asked The Hawaii Supreme Court To Take Up The Case Of HPD Sgt. Darren Cachola
October 2019
Friday, October 25Civil Beat Investigation Ripples Beyond Hawaii
Friday, October 4What To Expect When You Submit A Community Voice
September 2019
Friday, September 27You Think Your Job Is Stressful? At Least You’re Not Me
Friday, September 20Fit To Print? State’s Mauna Kea Press Conferences Raise The Question Of What’s News
Monday, September 16Why We Sent A Reporter To The Washington Woods To Find Tulsi Gabbard’s Consultant
May 2019
Friday, May 17Here’s Why We Think Trisha Watson’s Kealoha Column Was Worth Publishing
April 2019
Friday, April 12Honolulu Police Corruption: This Is Why We Rarely Rely On Anonymous Sources
March 2019
Friday, March 22Political Mailers: Shamelessly Exploiting The News Media
Tuesday, March 5Stripping Away The Stereotypes About People With Mental Illness
December 2018
Thursday, December 13The Story Behind Our New Transportation Column
October 2018
Friday, October 12We May Finally Get To See Honolulu Police Salary Information
September 2018
Monday, September 24Why Talking About Anti-Micronesian Hate Is Important
Monday, September 17Why Civil Beat Is Taking A Deep Dive Into Hawaii’s Mental Health System
July 2018
Tuesday, July 31Are Political Attack Ads A Waste Of Money This Year?
May 2018
Wednesday, May 16What It’s Like Spending Three Days Watching A Volcano
April 2018
Tuesday, April 3Why We Published New Sexual Harassment Claims About Dan Inouye
March 2018
Monday, March 12We’re Changing Around Some Things In Our Newsroom
February 2018
Monday, February 26We’re Killing Comments — Here’s Why
Wednesday, February 14Thursday, February 8Civil Beat: How Profiling A Candidate For UH President Turned Up A Serious Complaint
Wendy Hensel says Civil Beat got the facts wrong about a law professor’s accusations. But what she’s not telling you is how the professor came to file the complaint in the first place.
Why Is No One Really Listening To What The Westside Is Saying?
City and state officials have been talking about helping West Oahu residents and business for decades. So why are things worse than ever?
The FBI Continues To Stall On Releasing Hawaii Lawmakers’ Bribery Investigations
Civil Beat has been trying to get the investigative files on public officials convicted of bribery for more than a year.
What To Expect When You Submit A Community Voice
Fairness and accuracy are important in this highly popular section. Here’s how to do it and what to keep in mind.
If Electronic Monitoring Is Going To Expand In Hawaii, There Needs To Be Better Public Data
We don’t know much about how electronic monitoring operates in the state and the raw numbers are only part of the story.
A Civil Beat Reporter Stumbled On Boxes Of Hawaii Letters Stored Away, Unseen, Since The 1800s
The fragile and fragmented records of sailors, travelers and other adventurers who died in Hawaii are the basis for our new series.
Civil Beat Could Take To The Airwaves. Tell Us — And The FCC — What You Think
We’re constantly looking for ways to get people engaged with the community.
Civil Beat: Our Maui Fire Coverage Is Just Beginning
We are staffing up on Maui and creating a permanent bureau that will remain deeply committed to the community and all it faces going forward.
‘The Lives We Lost’ Tells A Different Story About The People Who Died In Lahaina
Most of the stories about the people who perished in the Aug. 8 fire have focused on the circumstances of their death. We want to write about their lives.