Paula Dobbyn
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Paula Dobbyn reports on Maui, Hawaiʻi Island, and the environment for Honolulu Civil Beat.
Previous to Civil Beat, Dobbyn was a longtime Alaska journalist. She began her journalism career in Nicaragua during the 1980s, covering the U.S.-backed war against the Sandinista revolutionary government. After Paula returned to the U.S., she held reporting jobs at the AP Broadcast Center in Washington, D.C., and Monitor Radio and Monitor Television in Boston.
Dobbyn moved to Alaska in 1994 and reported there for many years, including at public radio station KTOO, the Anchorage Daily News, and Alaska's News Source. She taught journalism as an adjunct professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Dobbyn holds a degree in political science from Hampshire College, and earned a master's degree in human rights law from a cross-border program run by Queen’s University Belfast and National University of Ireland at Galway. She was a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Dobbyn joined Honolulu Civil Beat in February 2022.
