Transcribing Native Hawaiian Newspapers

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Civil Beat’s Nanea Kalani is one of more than 2,000 people helping with a gargantuan task — transcribing 60,000 digital scans of old Hawaiian newspaper articles so they can be preserved and catalogued.

Read her first-person story here.

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