The Hawaii Independent publishes daily news, comment, and analysis in a blog format. In-depth features are published weekly, and a video podcast is published several times a month.
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Beverly Keever, Editorial Board Member
Beverly Ann Deepe Keever is emeritus professor and co-chair of the Journalism Program at the University of Hawai`i, where she was awarded the Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching. She is the author of “News Zero: The New York Times and The Bomb” (Common Courage Press, 2004).
Before teaching, she worked as a journalist covering the Vietnam War for seven years sucessively for Newsweek, the New York Herald Tribune and the Christian Science Monitor. Her coverage of the besieged outpost of Khe Sanh in 1968 was nominated by the Monitor for a Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.
For a career bridging the profession and the professorate, she has received awards from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Association and the University of Nebraska College of Journalism and Mass Communications Alumni Association. In 2004, Beverly Keever was inducted into the Hawaii Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Hall of Fame.
Pete Britos, Editorial Board Member
Pete Britos, Ph.D. teaches media studies at Hawaii Pacific University in downtown Honolulu, where he is an Associate Professor in the College of Communications. Previously, he was Gallery Director for the Hawai’i State Art Museum (HiSAM), a division of the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. From 2003 through 2006 Pete taught screenwriting, media studies and cinematic & digital narrative production at the University of Hawai’i (UH), where in 2003 he had returned to help in the creation of the UH Academy for Creative Media (ACM). From 1991 to 2003 Britos was affiliated with the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts (USC-CA).
At CBS Television City he produced music artists and other celebrities on late-night television for Quincy Jones and David Salzman. Segments he wrote and produced include Ice Cube, Master P., Snoop Dogg, Jon Voight, Robert Duvall, Enrique Iglesias, Pamela Lee Anderson, Samuel L. Jackson, Laurence Fishburne, Carmen Electra, Yo Yo Ma, Kevin Bacon, Chow Yun Fat, Hilary Swank, Jon Stewart, Michael Moore, the Harlem Globetrotters and many more.
Britos earned his M.F.A. from the USC-School of Cinema-Television Graduate Screenwriting Program and Ph.D. in Critical Studies from USC-CNTV. He earned a B.A. at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa, Department of English, an AA from Leeward Community College and his Diploma is from Castle High School. He also attended the University of Neuchatel, Izmir High School, and Heidelberg High School.
Ikaika Hussey, Publisher
Ikaika Hussey has been deeply involved in Hawaii politics for more than a decade as an advocate, critic, and elected representative. In 1999, he was elected to the Native Hawaiian Convention. Since that time, he been quoted on Kanaka Maoli and Hawaii politics in The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, Democracy Now!, and the local dailies.
Travis Quezon, Associate Editor
Since his days as editor-in-chief of Ka Leo O Hawai’i, the University of Hawai’i’s campus daily newspaper, Travis Quezon has pursued an understanding of all aspects of the newspaper business. Most recently, he has worked as managing editor and interim editor of the Honolulu Weekly. There, Travis earned a Pa’i Award from the Publisher’s Association for enterprise reporting on Hawai’i’s homeless in 2008.
Samson Reiny, West Coast Correspondent
Samson Reiny, a native of the west coast of the island of Oahu, writes and edits from the same coast in North America. He has worked with the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and has interned with the National Radio Project. He is a student of the University of California at Berkley Graduate School of Journalism.
Darlene Rodrigues, Producer
Darlene Rodrigues is a writer and poet. She is co-producer of “Making Waves,” a show about social justice issues in Hawai’i which can be seen on Olelo Community Television.
