The Honolulu Advertiser published its final edition Sunday, ending a 154-year history and making the capital of Hawaii a one-newspaper town.
About 400 people will lose their jobs, while the remaining daily is hiring 265 of those workers to its title and also changing its name from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, the Advertiser reported. The merging of the two papers was announced in 2009, when Gannett announced it would sell the paper to David Black, owner of the Star-Bulletin.
In 1962, the Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin entered into a joint operating scheme. In 1999 the Star-Bulletin was on the brink of closure, and in 2001 Black, a Canadian newspaper executive, bought it, and the joint operating agreement was also ended, according to the report.


