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 […]
Lost in weeds
Newspaper hangs on
With time clicking down on a plan offered by a fifth-generation Alaska family to save the state’s largest newspaper, a gaggle of lawyers representing a small mob of creditors were back […]
Thank you Alice
Commentary With Alaska’s largest newspaper today bankrupt and frightfully close to the verge of disappearing forever from the scene, there are a lot of people lining up to bash owner and publisher […]
News lives for now
Anchorage’s paper boys and motor carriers will roll for at least another week or two. After a twisted, tangled, three-hour journey through the finances of the near-broke Alaska Dispatch News, federal […]
Tough neighborhood
The difficult business of trying to take a newspaper through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization will begin in Anchorage, AK today with a simple task – get the paperboys paid. A newspaper […]
More News trouble
A day before a federal bankruptcy court judge is due to start untangling the finances of Alaska’s largest news organization, a trustee for the debtors owed millions of dollars has raised […]
‘Vital to all Alaska’
Is a newspaper so vital to a community that to keep it alive the people who labored in good faith to build it should be left to shoulder the price when it […]
Bad news for the News
This story has been updated Almost $1.4 million behind on the rent and electric in a building due to have been vacated long ago, Alaska’s largest newspaper now faces eviction from […]
The napkin stands
UPDATE: This story was updated on July 29, 2017 Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff, the wife of billionaire financier and now TV star David Rubenstein, appears headed to court to face a jury […]
Newspaper gone?
On the Friday that The McClatchy Company, one of the country’s biggest news operations, reported a staggering $37.4 million loss for the quarter, The Midnight Sun, an Anchorage blog, publicly revealed […]
