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 […]
‘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 […]
Dispatch in bankruptcy
Alice Rogoff is out as the publisher of the Alaska Dispatch News. The Binkleys of Fairbanks and Alaska Media LLC are in, at least for now. And what it means for Alaska […]
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 […]
More ADN trouble
Just when you think things can’t get much worse for Alaska’s largest newspaper in these tough times for the news business, things get worse. Rumors circulating around Anchorage that the Alaska Dispatch […]
Dispatch duo BFF no more
In one of the sadder moments in the history of modern journalism in Alaska, Tony Hopfinger, the founder and former editor of AlaskaDispatch.com, has sued former business partner and good friend Alice […]
ADN Purchase details
Updated Monday May 9, 2016 – Hopfinger sold Dispatch Publishing shares Given the interest generated by Alaska’s major news operation — ADN.com — suing the state’s formerly major news operation — ADN.com […]
What did the governor buy?
Two months before it was first publicly revealed that Washington, D.C. lobbyist Jack Ferguson, a former aide to Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young, had been hired by Gov. Bill Walker to […]
