Cammy Clark

Cammy Clark is a consultant and contributing editor for the Hawaiʻi Journalism Initiative. She also is the editor for Pacific Media Group’s Big Island Now and Kauaʻi Now. She has 40 years of journalism experience, with her stories appearing in more than 200 newspapers across the United States and internationally. She previously worked for the Miami Herald as the Florida Keys bureau chief and sports writer. She also has worked for Civil Beat, the Washington Post, St. Petersburg Times, United Press International, the Orange County Register and WRC-TV/George Michael Sports Machine. Cammy grew up in New Hampshire at a time when Watergate dominated the news. She chose to go to college at American University in Washington, D.C., where she studied print journalism.

But an internship with UPI led to becoming Sports Editor of the college newspaper and a 20-year career as a pioneering female professional sports reporter. She traveled the country covering NHL teams, NASCAR, college basketball, U.S. Olympic trials and various other sports. In her 40s she switched to covering news.

She traveled the world by bicycle in 2000 with a large group. She’s still working on the book. And, she traveled the country by RV with her husband, and they still talk to each other. Cammy met her husband in a cemetery during a body exhumation. He was a homicide detective and she was covering the story.

Cammy and her husband have been residents of Maui for more than six years, and thankfully bought their house when it was still semi affordable. She dives, paddleboards, bikes, hikes, plays tennis, roots for the Patriots and enjoys the people and culture of the island. Her retired husband keeps busy captaining dive boats to Molokini Crater. They have a cat named Itty Bitty, who one day showed up on their doorstep and never left.

Cammy can be reached at cammy.clark@pmghawaii.com.