Honolulu Civil Beat
Kim Gamel currently serves as the Managing Editor at Honolulu Civil Beat, a position held since November 2020. Prior to this role, Gamel worked as the Asia-Pacific correspondent for Stars and Stripes from February 2016 to November 2020, focusing on reporting, writing, and photography. Gamel's extensive experience includes serving as the Middle East News Editor at the Associated Press from 1995 to 2014, overseeing coverage of 15 countries and editing extensive copy. Additionally, Gamel has reported from India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan as a Roving Correspondent in South Asia, and served as the Iraq News Editor for a period from 2006 to 2009. Gamel began a career in journalism as a reporter for the Moscow Tribune in 1992. Academic credentials include a Master of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts in Russian from Bates College.
Honolulu Civil Beat
Our focus is on investigative and watchdog journalism, in-depth enterprise reporting, analysis and commentary that gives readers a broad view on issues of importance to the community. The philanthropic gift that Pierre Omidyar gave to create Civil Beat in 2010 began a unique opportunity for Hawaii to develop a non-commercial media platform whose mission it is to inform and educate Hawaii residents so they can make good decisions about vital issues. Civil Beat has quickly become one of the most respected news sites in Hawaii. Our journalists have won dozens of state, regional and national awards and Civil Beat has been named the best news website in Hawaii for the past five years by the Society of Professional Journalists. Civil Beat also hopes to foster community discussion by providing a place where citizens can debate important issues in a civil manner, free from cheap shots and personal swipes. We do that through encouraging a wide variety of reader-submitted Community Voices, public events and through our integrated Civil Comments platform.