The woman who once thought she could own the news in the north was back in federal Bankruptcy Court in Anchorage on Thursday acting dazed and confused. Gone were the […]
Empire lost
Arctic Wow!
The strange and tangled tale of the Alaska Dispatch News, the 49th state’s largest news organization, just keeps getting stranger. As the Binkley family of Fairbanks was buying the newspaper and the website […]
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. […]
Old News new?
Fresh out of bankruptcy, the Alaska Dispatch News appears to be getting ready to distance itself from former and failed publisher Alice Rogoff at the same time she is making a bid […]
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 […]
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. […]
Reporting matters
Commentary In one short post at craigmedred.news, Pete Snow raises an interesting point everybody seems to be missing in the discussion of these times about journalism bad, good and dying. “Craig, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Go ask Alice….
When Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff cut a complicated deal to transfer her bankrupt newspaper to the Binkley Company a little over a week ago, a couple of pieces […]
