Quite possibly Alice Rogoff’s flirtation with Alaska journalism was destined from the beginning to end badly, though no ever really expected a woman on a $5 million per year allowance to take […]
Yosemite Alice
Binkleys buy ADN
At the end, the woman who long professed a desire to change Alaska journalism for the better cut a pathetic figure as she scurried away from the federal Bankruptcy Court in downtown […]
Going, going, going…
As the clock ticks toward a 9:30 a.m. bankruptcy hearing that could today decide the fate of Alaska’s largest news organization, confusion reigns. An Unsecured Creditors Committee (UCC) has asked federal Bankruptcy […]
‘Quite a ride’
At the start of this year, Alaska Dispatch News owner and publisher Alice Rogoff wrote these prophetic words in her newspaper: “Happy 2017 to one and all. For us at Alaska Dispatch […]
Cash-only please
The Alaska Dispatch News might be in bankruptcy, but owner Alice Rogoff, the estranged wife of one of the country’s richest men, apparently still has access to more cash than most working […]
ADN downsizing
Employees of Alaska Dispatch News next victims of bankruptcy
Call the Navy
Referencing the Aleutian War campaign of the 1940s, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is trying to leverage a new U.S. Navy base in the 49th state out of the crisis in North Korea. […]
Lost in weeds
On the outside, all looks fine for Alaska’s largest news organization. The website ADN.com keeps on keeping on. The commenters still gravitate there en masse to call each other names. The Alaska […]
The future?
While a federal bankruptcy court judge is trying to decide how to help a family of Fairbanks entrepreneurs save the Anchorage newspaper – Alaska’s largest – an iconic newspaper on the other […]
ADN buys time
The broad smiles flashing on the faces of the family Binkley outside a courtroom in Anchorage on Monday were reminiscent of those brightening the staff of an internet startup called AlaskaDispatch.com only […]
