Pacific Islands Report Ends Its Twenty Year Run

After more than twenty years, the daily Pacific Islands news service provided by the Pacific Islands Development Program at the East-West Center will cease. Founded in 1997 and read by thousands across the Pacific Islands and around the world, the Pacific Islands Report ends publication with an archive of well over 100,000 articles. This valuable archive will remain accesible at http://PIReport.org for the foreseeable future.
The Pacific Islands Report would like to thank our dedicated readers for supporting the website and five-days-a-week email brief. We also want to express our sincere appreciation for those who have partially funded our operations throughout the years including the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, the Matson Foundation, and Marriott Hotels & Resorts.
We want to express our sincere gratitude to the partner media organizations who have allowed us to repackage their content for our complilation website. Without their journalistic integrity and on-the-ground expertise PIR would not have been possible. If you are missing your daily news from across the Pacific we recommend going directly to the source at our various partners. In our view, Radio New Zealand International currently is providing the broadest coverage of the entire region.
Finally, PIR wishes to recognize all the people who have contributed to the production of PIR over the years (our apologies if we missed anyone):
- Al Hulsen, Creator and Founding Editor
- Peter Wagner, Managing Editor
- Christopher Klutz, Founding Webmaster
- Scott Kroeker, Webmaster and Editor
- Titilia Barbour, Production Assistant
- Mona Nakikei, Production Assistant
- Craig DeSilva, Assistant Editor
- Edelene Uriarte, Assistant Editor
- Daniel Maile, Assistant Editor
- Cameron Lowry, Assistant Editor
- Jerry Finin, PIDP Director
- Sitiveni Halapua, PIDP Director
- Alfred Tinitali, Student Assistant
- Winis Map, Student Assistant
- Mere Tuqiri, Student Assistant
- Keola Diaz, Student Assisant
Comments
Many thanks and sorry to see this end
Sad to see you go.
Thank you
Malo 'aupito
Thank you
Thanks and Very Sorry to See the End of the Service
The end
Sorry to see you go.....
You Will Be Missed!
end of an era.
Will miss keeping up with the South Pacific news
Thank you for your service to the Pacific Community
Thank you from Vanuatu
Oh no! (And thank you)
Meeting with Al Hulsen
end of the line...
A great loss to both Pacific news and scholarship
You ran a great race, thank you (revised)
I hope former staff can raise enough funds to continue...
Closing of Pacific Islands Report
gone
No more weekly news
Farewell
We will miss you!
How do we carry on?
End of PIR
You Will Be Sorely Missed
Thank you! Sad to see you go
Vinaka vaka levu
Early contributor
Komol-tata
Will miss my homepage
Farewell
How come, with so many startupper, none in the Pacific who can t
Sorry knowledge of Pacific Islands takes a giant step backward
So long, farewell
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