Anyone can be a reporter, and it was only a matter of time before news organizations recognized the same and tapped the reporting power of the masses. At the forefront now is […]
Crowd-sourced news
On courage
Courage is the rarest of human traits. It is so rare that American journalists, who work in a business where courage is most extremely rare, have a bad habit of hanging the […]
Media cavalry charge
Local news help is on its way to Alaska. The Poynter Institute – “a global leader in journalism” – Thursday announced it had picked “21 local news organizations that will participate in […]
Crude Alaska story
A leaking, Alaska oil well that sprayed some crude and then spewed gas for days on the North Slope of the Brooks Range has been shut down, and the world can rest […]
News versus story
A news analysis In one compound sentence the Associated Press on Saturday summarized so much of what is wrong with journalism today. Here is what the AP reported: “Alaskans often take great […]
Something’s wrong here
Commentary Journalism today faces a nearly universal and very simple business problem that almost no one in the business talks about: quality control. To be perfectly honest, too, the problem often […]
Just chillin’
Commentary The northern end of Alaska’s Cook Inlet remained thick with ice on Saturday as the 49th state marched into a chill, snowy April that was a white world away from a […]
Liar, liar
The sun was bright in Anchorage on Friday. The bitter north wind had finally stopped blowing. And the temperature had climbed to 20 degrees. The day felt positively balmy. But it […]
Ever-changing I-rod
Part II of a series Who was first to put a coat on a short-haired dog in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race appears unclear. If you know, feel free […]
A different Iditarod
Part 1 of a series Thirty-four years ago, I first put journalistic boots on the ground to cover the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. It was not the race that […]
