Meet the Writers

Wendy Osher

Wendy Osher leads the Maui Now news team. She is also the news voice of parent company, Pacific Media Group, having served more than 20 years as News Director for the company’s six Maui radio stations.

Tiffany DeMasters

Tiffany DeMasters is a reporter for Big Island Now. Tiffany worked as the cops and courts reporter for West Hawaii Today from 2017 to 2019. She also contributed stories to Ke Ola Magazine and Honolulu Civil Beat.

Scott Yunker

Scott Yunker is a journalist living on Kauaʻi. His work for community newspapers has earned him awards and inclusion in the 2020 anthology "Corona City: Voices from an Epicenter." Scott can be reached at scott.yunker@pmghawaii.com.

Rod Antone

Rob Collias

Rob Collias is a general assignment reporter for the Hawai\'i Journalism Initiative. He previously worked as a sports reporter for The Maui News and also spent time with the Pacific Daily News in Guam and the Honolulu Advertiser.

Nathan Christophel

Nathan Christophel has more than 20 years of experience in journalism, starting out as a reporter and working his way up to become a copy editor and page designer, most recently at the Hawaii Tribune-Herald in Hilo.

Megan Moseley

Kelsey Walling

Kelsey Walling is a full-time reporter for Big Island Now and the Pacific Media Group. She previously worked as a photojournalist for the Hawaii Tribune-Herald from 2020 to 2024, where she photographed daily news and sports and contributed feature stories. Originally from Texas, Kelsey has made East Hawaiʻi her home and is excited to write news stories and features about the community and its people.

Kehaulani Cerizo

John Smith

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JD Pells

JD is a news reporter for Maui Now. He has contributed stories to TCU 360, Fort Worth Report and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. JD interned at Maui Now in 2021. He graduated from the Bob Schieffer College of Communication at Texas Christian University, with a bachelor\'s in journalism and business in 2022, before coming back home to Maui with the purpose of serving his community. He can be reached at jdpells@pmghawaii.com.

Gaylord Garcia

Gary Kubota

Gary Kubota, an associate writer with MauiNow.com, has worked as a staff news writer with the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and The Maui News. He lives on Maui. He’s also been an editor/business manager with the Lahaina News. He’s received national and regional journalism awards — a National Press Club Citation of Merit and Walter Cronkite Best In The West, among them.

Colleen Uechi

Colleen Uechi is the editor of the Hawai’i Journalism Initiative. She formerly served as managing editor of The Maui News and staff writer for The Molokai Dispatch. She grew up on O’ahu.

Cammy Clark

Brian Perry

Brian Perry worked as a staff writer and editor at The Maui News from 1990 to 2018. Before that, he was a reporter at the Pacific Daily News in Agana, Guam. From 2019 to 2022, he was director of communications in the Office of the Mayor.

Andrew Gross