Creating Hawaii’s Favorite Paper

July 22, 2009
By Don Chapman

I’ll begin this column in MidWeek‘s 25th anniversary issue with the same anecdote I shared in my first column as MidWeek‘s editor in November 1994.

Bucking A Trend With Good News

July 01, 2009
By Don Chapman

Although MidWeek is one of the rare newspapers in the U.S. to increase readership in the past year of economic doom and gloom - a total of nearly 500,000 readers, up (according to well-respected Scarborough Research) a whopping 20,000 adults, thank you very much

The Joy And Perils Of A Foul Ball

April 08, 2009
By Don Chapman

I wasn’t going to mention in the pages of MidWeek that I recently caught a foul ball at a UH baseball game, but since Bob Hogue is spilling the beans in his column on page 70, well ...

Behind The Scenes Of Obama Cover

November 12, 2008
By Don Chapman

‘08: Year of Obama

It was the last week of 2007 when I wrote that headline for the cover of our Jan. 2, 2008, issue, an intentional wordplay on the approaching Chinese New Year, Year of the Rat.

A Rewarding Award Weekend

November 05, 2008
By Don Chapman

In Dallas to accept MidWeek‘s award from the American Cancer Society, I was reminded of how much Texas and Hawaii share in common.