The Buzz
The Buzz
THE Honolulu Star-Bulletin won 21 honors at yesterday's Hawaii Publishers Association's Pa'i awards at Hilton Hawaiian Village, including nine first-place trophies. Advertiser absent
from Pa‘i awardsThe other daily publication won no awards, as it had not submitted any entries, despite Honolulu Advertiser General Manager Dennis Francis' role as president of the Hawaii Publishers Association. Anecdotal accounts indicated Advertiser staff members were unaware that none of their work had been entered.
Advertiser Editor Saundra Keyes confirmed no announcement had been made on the decision not to enter. However, she added, she was unaware of any staff requests to submit work for consideration.
The Advertiser chose not to enter the awards due to more pressing priorities and reservations about the HPA practice of using the same judges each year, according to Keyes. There actually were some new judges this year, according to HPA Vice President Jim Wilson, but Keyes said she was unaware of that.
HPA President Francis also was a no-show at the event, causing Wilson to quip at the ceremony's opening that Francis was "on Nimitz selling the newspaper."
In fact, said Francis, he was attending to out-of-town guests.
Speaking of awards
April 5 was not a bad day outside the office for Communications-Pacific.At the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau "Keep it Hawaii" recognition luncheon at the Hawaii Prince hotel, four of the company's clients won seven of the 45 awards.
That evening at the International Association of Business Communicators' Ilima Awards dinner at Hilton Hawaiian Village, Comm-Pac won seven of 36 awards.
Comm-Pac CEO Kitty Lagareta said the credit for the Keep It Hawaii awards goes exclusively to the clients, as her company's role was merely "to write up the award entries," she said.
The IABC awards were another story -- Comm-Pac was honored for its own work, including two communications programs and a video, a newsletter, brochure, bylined article and news release, done on behalf of clients.
Erika Engle is a reporter with the Star-Bulletin.
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