The best story ever written for the Alaska Dispatch, an online new site that flourished in Alaska for only a handful of years, never won a prize, but it took on a […]
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Rogoff settles
This is a developing story. One of the richest men in the United States – David Rubenstein – is buying his ex-wife out of the wreckage of the would-be newspaper […]
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 […]
Queen of the Arctic
With Alice Rogoff’s dream of an Alaska media empire dead and a federal Bankruptcy Court trustee sniffing her back trail to find the hole down which tens of millions of dollars disappeared […]
Tangled up in news
The carcass of the now dead Alaska Dispatch News was dragged back into federal Bankruptcy Court Thursday with the wolves of the law sniffing still edible meat on the bones of what […]
Own history
Some of the assets of the bankrupt and now-gone Alaska Dispatch News – which once claimed it had no assets – are up for sale. From 5 until 7 p.m. today and […]
The plot thickens
A month on from the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race’s first, publicly reported case of doping, four-time champ Dallas Seavey has hired a self-proclaimed San Fransisco “fixer” to clear him […]
Horrible gift
Alaska journo-lebrity Alice Rogoff celebrates her birthday Friday, and the good news is the estranged wife of billionaire David Rubenstein will be fully vested in Social Security at age 66. The bad […]
Arctic Not?
As the Alaska Dispatch News – Alaska’s largest news organization – was collapsing into bankruptcy in August, owner Alice Rogoff left with her favorite plaything, a website she told friends would […]
Back in the game
Less than a month after leaving Alaska’s largest news organization behind in federal Bankruptcy Court, the estranged wife of billionaire financier David Rubenstein is hard at work rebranding herself on the global stage. […]
