The results are in, and they show what Americans really care about: the head-bashing business of professional football. “Sunday Night Football (on NBC) delivered 15.78 million viewers in the fast nationals […]
Impeachment gauge
Wanton waste?
A YouTube video of a kayaker paddling over a seabed buried in the carcasses of dead, unspawned pink salmon has the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association apologizing for a humpy massacre […]
News ecology
By now many reading this have heard of the kerfuffle involving the German news weekly Der Speigel and award-winning reporter Claas Relotius, who created “fake news” at a world-class […]
Personal truths
In this the age of personal-truth, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has become the perfect focal point for America’s divisive partisanship. What better to argue over than something about which no one […]
Unexpected rescue
After a gnarly crossing of the Harding Icefield from near the small town of Seward to the remote eastern edge of Skilak Lake on the Kenai Peninsula last week, about the last […]
Untouched salmon
The future of commercial salmon processing will go online in Norway later this year when the machines take over a plant just north of the Arctic Circle. If the operation proves […]
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 […]
Withering Alaska news?
The statewide news you get in Alaska – particularly hourly radio updates – might be about to take a hit. How big a hit? No one knows. How important a hit? […]
Iditarod bans Travis Beals
A week after it was first reported the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race had allowed musher Travis Beals to compete while awaiting trail on domestic-violence charges, Alaska’s signature sporting event took a […]
When journalists make nice, lessons get lost
For want of a shovel, Alaskan Jenny Neyman — writer, editor and enterprising publisher behind the now sorely missed Redoubt Reporter newspaper — and friend Chris Hanna almost died entombed in snow […]
