The implosion of Alaska’s largest newspaper is old news now, but the story of the rise and fall of Alice Rogoff and her dream to create a media empire in the 49th […]
The fall of Rogoff
Biggest loser
Former Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff – a financial adviser to Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, the hostess for dinner with President Barack Obama on his historic 49th state visit, and the estranged […]
Halfback
Update: The word is now official. The Alaska Dispatch News is history. The Anchorage Daily News is back. The first of the new Anchorage Daily News newspapers are begin landing on city […]
Horrible gift
Alaska journo-lebrity Alice Rogoff celebrates her birthday Friday, and the good news is the estranged wife of billionaire David Rubenstein will be fully vested in Social Security at age 66. The bad […]
Arctic Not?
As the Alaska Dispatch News – Alaska’s largest news organization – was collapsing into bankruptcy in August, owner Alice Rogoff left with her favorite plaything, a website she told friends would […]
Yosemite Alice
Quite possibly Alice Rogoff’s flirtation with Alaska journalism was destined from the beginning to end badly, though no ever really expected a woman on a $5 million per year allowance to take […]
Going, going, going…
As the clock ticks toward a 9:30 a.m. bankruptcy hearing that could today decide the fate of Alaska’s largest news organization, confusion reigns. An Unsecured Creditors Committee (UCC) has asked federal Bankruptcy […]
ADN downsizing
Employees of Alaska Dispatch News next victims of bankruptcy
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 […]
