A stray dog named Nanook is today the most famous animal in Alaska since Stubbs the cat, the alleged mayor of an Alaska town with no mayor. What a difference […]
Fantasy news
Agreeable news
Maybe part of what’s wrong with journalism today is not journalists, but readers. You don’t have to engage in many conversations about the news to find people whose main complaint is that […]
Word control
What a week in Alaska journalism, and it’s only Thursday. First we get the KTVA cowboys staking out an aggressive mama moose on the Glenn Highway bike path for more than an […]
Copy and ink
They laid Jim Macknicki to rest on Thursday. He was a man who spent most of his adult life doing the most thankless job in journalism with devotion and integrity. I knew him […]
Dogged journalism
FAIRBANKS – I apparently did a bad thing on Friday. I went by the office of someone involved in a news story to ask questions face to face, something journalists used […]
Everyday journalism
If Facebook = journalism = Facebook, why does the world need journalism? This might be the number one issue facing journalism today, but it’s unclear whether it is recognized by all journalism businesses. […]
Citizen news
For a brief time in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the best reporter in Alaska was a 48-year-old man with no training in journalism, no connection to any news organization, and […]
Devolution
Commentary On the day the Women’s March hit Alaska, a 49th-state journalist popped a photo of demonstrators up on Instagram with this description: “We hate Donald Trump up North too.” In the […]
Find the money
The Alaska Dispatch News/ADN.com – once the state’s dominant news source – might be bankrupt and gone, but the story of the rise and fall of millionaire news baroness Alice Rogoff appears […]
Nothing news
Commentary Dexter is safe, and it’s time for someone to ask the obvious: “What the hell just happened here? Was this news or a distraction from news?” Dexter, in case you […]
