UPDATE: This story was updated on July 29, 2017 Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff, the wife of billionaire financier and now TV star David Rubenstein, appears headed to court to face a jury […]
The napkin stands
Down & out in AK
Commentary Yet more trouble appears on the horizon for the already troubled business of journalism in Alaska. Rumors have been swirling for weeks that yet more downsizing is coming at the Alaska […]
The new news
A new entity has slipped into the interwebs to challenge Alaska’s established news media for the attention of your eyeballs. Alaska Banner.com is an attractive website with a masthead featuring the big […]
On killing bears
Commentary After surviving nights of terror, residents of a subdivision outside of the small Alaska community of Seward got to become villains. Their crime? They participated in or supported the killing of […]
It’s a fraud
The story now sweeping the country about a moose born in the parking lot of an Anchorage Lowe’s store is a fraud, according to an employee of the Lowe’s store, and a […]
ADN Purchase details
Updated Monday May 9, 2016 – Hopfinger sold Dispatch Publishing shares Given the interest generated by Alaska’s major news operation — ADN.com — suing the state’s formerly major news operation — ADN.com […]
Better kept quiet
With the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race caught in a wrongheaded but understandable bit of a cover-up this week because the reality of Alaska can be just a little too real, more […]
Play nice, children!
“I disapprove of what you say, and I have a backend algorithm that will fix that!” Voltaire/2016 OK, so Voltaire actually said something ever-so-slightly different, but he might have put it this […]
AK New-media’s new beat
The title card from the TV show Peyton Place While most Alaskans have had their attention focused on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the state’s Superbowl, the new-media of state […]
What did the governor buy?
Two months before it was first publicly revealed that Washington, D.C. lobbyist Jack Ferguson, a former aide to Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young, had been hired by Gov. Bill Walker to […]
