Two CHamoru journalists from the Marianas have won national awards recognizing their reporting on Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities in Hawaii.
Mainstream media in Hawaiʻi are helping to propel the state’s mother tongue by incorporating the once-banned language into Hawaiʻi’s news. Award-winning investigative news website,
Honolulu Civil Beat, has announced ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) speakers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language will translate stories published by its reporters. The special project, Ka Ulana Pilina, is privately funded and will first feature the translation of a small collection of past
Civil Beat stories into Hawaiian. After that, at least one news story a week will be translated into ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi.