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 […]
Newspaper gone?
Killer Tweets
Commentary With the national media and President Donald J. Trump engaged in World Twitter War I (WTW I), with the Alaska media being led around by media releases, and with social media […]
Bearly ignorant bliss
Commentary Alaska’s mainstream media has dialed up the perfect solution to the fear gripping the 49th state in the wake of two extremely rare, fatal bear attacks in two days in June: […]
Down & out in AK
Commentary Yet more trouble appears on the horizon for the already troubled business of journalism in Alaska. Rumors have been swirling for weeks that yet more downsizing is coming at the Alaska […]
Journalism in decay
The race to the bottom appears to be over. CareerCast.com, a website that ranks jobs in the U.S., now puts journalism at the bottom of the list of worst jobs […]
Strange things done
What a week in Alaska journalism. Just when you think the weirdness has gone beyond weird, things get weirder. If only Robert Service, the bard of the north, were still alive to […]
Crowd-sourced news
Anyone can be a reporter, and it was only a matter of time before news organizations recognized the same and tapped the reporting power of the masses. At the forefront now is […]
On courage
Courage is the rarest of human traits. It is so rare that American journalists, who work in a business where courage is most extremely rare, have a bad habit of hanging the […]
Something’s wrong here
Commentary Journalism today faces a nearly universal and very simple business problem that almost no one in the business talks about: quality control. To be perfectly honest, too, the problem often […]
Liar, liar
The sun was bright in Anchorage on Friday. The bitter north wind had finally stopped blowing. And the temperature had climbed to 20 degrees. The day felt positively balmy. But it […]
