Denby Fawcett is a columnist for Honolulu Civil Beat.  She formerly worked at KITV-4-News, the ABC News affiliate in Hawaii.  She reported for KITV for 23 years, most recently as chief political editor. Denby has been a news reporter since she was 15 years old, when she wrote a column the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. She is a graduate of Punahou School and  Columbia University and was awarded a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. She was a journalist in Vietnam from May 1966 until December 1967 for the Honolulu Advertiser. She returned to Vietnam in 1968-1969 for two shorter reporting stints. Denby is a co-author of War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam (Random House-2002). See http://www.wartorn.net/ Her most recent books are Secrets of Diamond Head: A History and Trail Guide. (2014).  Distributed by the University of Hawaiʻi Press.  www.uhpress.hawaii.edu and Waialae Country Club, a history of the Kahala area and the country club that defined it, published by Waialae Country Club in December 2020. In 2011, she was inducted into the Associated Press Television and Radio Association Hall of Fame for a lifetime of journalistic achievement.