Jason Ubay
Managing Editor, NewsJason Ubay is HPR's managing editor, where he works with the station's team of reporters and digital producers to create news content for broadcast and digital platforms. He brings more than 15 years of professional journalism experience in Honolulu to the role. He was most recently a producer on The Conversation.
He previously was managing editor of Hawaii Business magazine for five years, where he compiled lists and managed the brand's social media accounts. He later covered tourism and financial institutions at Pacific Business News. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and previously served on the board of the Asian American Journalists Association-Hawaiʻi chapter. He participated in AAJA's Executive Leadership Program in 2021.
Jason spent three years as a stay-at-home dad and has great respect for caregivers. He also won a pizza eating contest in 2010, played high school football with Matt Leinart and Colt Brennan, and drinks his coffee black.
Contact him at jubay@hawaiipublicradio.org.
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The audit investigated 38 questionable transactions from 2012 to 2016, when the Office of Hawaiian Affairs was led by then-CEO Kamanaʻopono Crabbe. Its Board of Trustees has promised accountability and implemented new changes.
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The city has acquired the Waikiki Vista in Mōʻiliʻili for $37.75 million. The deal will add more than 100 new affordable rental units to the city’s inventory.
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Commercial surf instructors, canoe captains and more in Waikīkī will no longer need state certification permits to operate.
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When the state lifted an eviction moratorium in August 2021 that had been in place since the start of the pandemic, it created a mediation program between landlords and tenants to stave off mass evictions. A new report from Hawaiʻi Appleseed found that the program kept tenants in housing better than mediation alone. HPR's Jason Ubay discussed the key findings with the report's author.
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Hawaiʻi and 32 other states are seeing an increase in cases of RSV. But health officials say that the cases of respiratory illnesses have come earlier than expected and there is no need to panic.
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A book written by an educator and illustrated by a Kaʻū High School student explores the power of choice and helps guide kids to make good choices. HPR’s Jason Ubay has more.
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Aloha Petroleum says it was covered by National Union on four different policies during the 1980s. One such policy said the insurer would have the right and duty to defend any suit against Aloha Petroleum on account of bodily injury or property damage.
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The University of Hawaiʻi Red Hill Task Force has released a dashboard where they have screened — but not tested — for fuel contaminants.
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A team of 16 freedivers recovered a staggering amount of marine debris last month off reefs and beaches in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. HPR’s Jason Ubay has more.
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Hawaiian Electric selected Onyx Development Group in April to build and maintain Mikiola Solar on the island of Lānaʻi, but could not finalize a contract.