I'm told there were no newsroom festivities following the Hawaii Publishers Association competition, where Star-Bulletin staffers brought home a respectable number of top awards. Pizza for lunch had become a tradition in the old Star-Bulletin newsroom, serving both to recognize staff accomplishments and build morale. Not even a staff meeting. According to one newsroom observer, staff are now totally in the dark, cut off from information or influence. The new management has stifled the spirit that kept the Star-Bulletin alive during those long months of uncertainty.
Nobody talks to anybody anymore.
Management decisions are seen as being made through layers of Canadian consultants. They have no clue, no design sense. No sense of what star bulletin was or is. And they don't care. We save the sb and they dismantle it, or are dismantling it.