Alaska sled dog sports were abuzz Friday with the news that the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race chief of drug testing is out, and three-time Iditarod champ Mitch Seavey, the oldest musher […]
Seavey wins
Word control
What a week in Alaska journalism, and it’s only Thursday. First we get the KTVA cowboys staking out an aggressive mama moose on the Glenn Highway bike path for more than an […]
A wolf dies
If a radio-collared wolf dies in Denali National Park and Preserve and no press release is written, does its death matter? Or are the deaths only of note when they come at […]
Shady business?
For the first time, a federal judge has used the f-word – fraud – in connection with the maneuverings of Alice Rogoff, the former owner-publisher of the bankrupt Alaska Dispatch News […]
News fraud
The publisher and owner of Arctic Today – which bills itself as the unrivaled source for “international news and perspective on a changing Arctic” – has been accused of fraud in a […]
Devolution
Commentary On the day the Women’s March hit Alaska, a 49th-state journalist popped a photo of demonstrators up on Instagram with this description: “We hate Donald Trump up North too.” In the […]
Bigger fish
The Kaplan Herald appears to be an equal-opportunity plagiarist. Forget stories borrowed from the Anchorage Daily News in Podunk, Alaska. Kaplan appears to have moved on to bigger and potentially more profitable targets […]
Intertheft
Commentary Unable to read an Anchorage Daily News story because you don’t want to pay to subscribe? Try the Kaplan Herald. You can read a lot of the exact same ADN copy […]
Find the money
The Alaska Dispatch News/ADN.com – once the state’s dominant news source – might be bankrupt and gone, but the story of the rise and fall of millionaire news baroness Alice Rogoff appears […]
Future media
News analysis On the morning after Track Palin beat up his father, confronted Wasilla Police and eventually went to jail, his mom – former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin – was up early […]
