Stiffed on a $119 pair of boots by millionaire Alice Rogoff in 2017 – the former owner and publisher of what is today the Anchorage Daily News (ADN.com) – the proprietor of […]
Bankruptcy pays
Old media twilight?
The fading significance of Alaska’s legacy media is broken down by the numbers in the September issue of the state Department of Labor’s Alaska Economic Trends, and the picture isn’t pretty. An […]
Pay up
Two more former top editors of the Anchorage Daily News (ADN) are now in court battling to get their former bosses to pay them more than $1.7 million dollars they are owed. […]
Down, down, down
Update: The possibility of a McClatchy company bankruptcy suggested here last week is now being bandied about by the mainstream media. “Newspaper Publisher McClatchy Teeters Near Bankruptcy,” Bloomberg headlined today. The story […]
The Alaska connection
And so, with financier and child molester Jeffrey Epstein dead in an apparent suicide, an investigation into his sordid sex life is reported to be shifting toward Alice Rogoff’s old, Iditarod trail […]
Valuing words
After eight days of sometimes rambling and regularly wandering testimony over the course of two weeks, the $1 million lawsuit former Alaska Dispatch News editor Tony Hopfinger filed against old boss Alice […]
A deal is….
After a week of Superior Court testimony surrounding a $1 million napkin deal between failed Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff and former editor Tony Hopfinger, a key player in the lawsuit […]
The devil’s details
In an Anchorage court room on Tuesday, the counsel for failed Alaska newspaper publisher Alice Rogoff put on a masterful display of lawyering wrapped in a demonstration of why so many Americans […]
Poor rich woman?
The draft of a once-proposed loan agreement between an Alaska Native corporation and Alice Rogoff has shed new light on the 2017 implosion of the 49th state’s largest newspaper. Despite […]
The looking glass
By day three of a nearly $1 million lawsuit pitting the former owner and publisher of the failed Alaska Dispatch News against the former editor, a sad tale of a friendship killed […]
