When a public official refuses to take a reporter’s questions, what is a journalist to do? Go to court to demand a judge order the official to do so? Well, that’s exactly […]
Journalist who?
The AK connection
When you’re a U.S. company doing business with blacklisted Chinese telecom giant Huawei, it might be best to do so indirectly from an outpost in far off Alaska. The U.S. Commerce Department […]
The last colony
News Analysis The United Fishermen of Alaska (UFA) has issued its annual report on who got the fish of the 49th state, and the winner is? Outside fishing interests. Of the 6.4 […]
Fix the news
Commentary If you’re reading this and you have a social media account of some sort, you hold the power to change the news. So if you think journalism is broken […]
The fallacy
Commentary The Alaska Dispatch News, the 49th state’s largest newspaper and most-visited online news site, is teetering on the edge of financial collapse, and some on the right in one of the […]
Of moose and men
If a moose dies in the center of Alaska’s urban heartland…. Well, suffice to say, it’s not the same as if one of the big ungulates wanders into the Yukon River village […]
We want fake news
Politifact and Facebook have now spent six weeks chasing the phantom of “fake news” and found the problem inherent in the human species. People, by and large, are prone to believe what […]
Survival of faddest
Fatbikes are everywhere in Alaska and Alaska’s largest city these days. They have transformed a world where cross-country skiing once dominated human-powered, winter recreation in the great outdoors. And in the process, […]
Family feud
Alaskans Barney Gottstein and the late Larry Carr built an empire by being hard-driving and capable businessmen. Now one of the heirs to that dynasty is in court duking it out with […]
