Ka Wai Ola News’ print edition has been providing news for the lāhui since 1980, covering the people, issues and events important to the Native Hawaiian community.
In January 2020, OHA launched KaWaiOla.news, an accompanying digital version of the publication that includes bonus videos, photo albums and an archival section that contains digitized versions of Ka Wai Ola News since its 1980 inception. The digital platform makes more than 40 years of contemporary Hawaiian history available to the world.
The publication has a large following, counting 51,000 print subscribers and 20,000 digital subscribers from across the country and an average of 16,000 online readers visiting the site each month.
Ka Wai Ola News is a multiple award-winning Indigenous media resource funded by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. It is consistently recognized for excellence in reporting by the Indigenous Journalists Association, as well as by the Hawaiʻi Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.
Summer Lee Haunani Sylva
Ka Pouhana Kūikawā/Interim Chief Executive Officer
K. Sean Kekina
Ka Pou Nui/Chief Operating Officer
Bill Brennan
Communications Director
Editor
Puanani Fernandez-Akamine
Graphic Designer
Kaleena Patcho
Staff Writer
- Kelli Meskin Soileau
Staff Photographer/Videographer
- Nelson Gaspar
- Jason Lees
Regular Contributors
- Kalani Akana, Ph.D.
- Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton
- Bobby Camara
- Heidi Chang
- Hannah Kaʻiulani Coburn
- Donalyn Dela Cruz
- Cedric Duarte
- Lisa Huynh Eller
- Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi
- Christine Hitt
- Annabelle Le Jeune
- Ed Kalama
- Lisa Kapono Mason
- Jodi Leslie Matsuo, DrPH
- Amee Hiʻilawe Neves
- Kalawaiʻa Nunies
- Kalei Nuʻuhiwa Ph.D
- Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi
Web Designer
- Trip Rems