A Hawaii edition of USA TODAY, printed by the Star-Advertiser, will debut Monday. The new edition will include the same four sections in USA TODAY on the mainland — News, Money, Sports and Life — condensed into two 12-page sections, along with two pages of local news.
The USA TODAY Hawaii edition will be available on the date of publication. Until now USA TODAY has been offered in Hawaii a day later.
Dennis Francis, Star-Advertiser publisher, said, "We are delighted to have concluded this agreement with USA TODAY. It enables us to provide Hawaii with more timely access to a great national newspaper and to offer it to Star-Advertiser print subscribers at a very affordable rate."
Star-Advertiser home-delivery subscribers will be offered the new USA TODAY edition for $5 a month.
He said the local content in the Hawaii edition of USA TODAY "will be designed specifically for the primary audience of USA TODAY in Hawaii, which consists mainly of visitors to our islands."
"Hawaii is an important market for USA TODAY," said Susie Ellwood, executive vice president and general manager of USA TODAY. "It is a pleasure for us to offer the Honolulu Star-Advertiser — Hawaii’s most comprehensive, trusted source of news and information — the opportunity to bring USA TODAY to Hawaii visitors and residents on a truly timely basis."
The Star-Advertiser is the flagship publication of Oahu Publications Inc., which also publishes MidWeek, the Hawaii Army Weekly, Hawaii Marine, Ho‘okele Weekly, HILuxury and a growing roster of community periodicals and in-room resort magazines.
In addition, staradvertiser.com receives more than 19 million monthly page views and is "liked" by more than 49,000 Facebook users, ranking No. 7 in the nation among daily newspapers.
USA TODAY, published by Gannett Co., was founded in 1982.
It is the nation’s No. 1 newspaper in print circulation with an average of nearly 1.8 million copies daily. USATODAY.com reaches 5.9 million readers daily.
