[Employee photo at Advertiser office is prize; click for bigger view]
Mourners are sponsoring a "Death of The Honolulu Advertiser Haiku Contest'' on Facebook, with a framed version of the photo, above, awarded to the haiku that gets the most "likes."
"We've been trained to keep it short. So we are,'' the Facebook page's authors say. "These are our thoughts, in haiku form, on the death of the Honolulu Advertiser and the imminent loss of our jobs. Because nothing says the end of an era like a 17-syllable poem that doesn't rhyme."
As many as 300 of the Advertiser's nearly 600 employees are expected to lose their jobs in the weeks ahead, as the former Gannett paper's new owners merge the daily with its rival, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The Advertiser's sale was completed two weeks ago today. It had been a Gannett paper since 1993.
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Others lost their jobs