Pacific Business News editor moving to Honolulu Advertiser

Jim Kelly, editor of Pacific Business News for the past five years, is moving to The Honolulu Advertiser next month to oversee its editorial pages, according to a story on the American City Business Journals paper’s Web site.

The story states, “Kelly, 49, had previously worked at the Advertiser from 1997 to 2004 in several senior newsroom management positions, including managing editor. He will start his new position on Feb. 15.

“At PBN, Kelly often writes the newspaper’s editorials as well as writing signed columns. In 2007, he won the top award for editorial writing from the Hawaii chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for an editorial on the Hawaii Superferry.

“Under his leadership, PBN has been named the state’s best non-daily newspaper for the past five years by the Hawaii Publishers Association.”

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