The problem of predation at a hatchery in Southeast Alaska is going big-time in a slick video of a humpback whale invading a net pen to gobble salmon fry, and the state’s […]
Whale tale
Down, down, down
Update: The possibility of a McClatchy company bankruptcy suggested here last week is now being bandied about by the mainstream media. “Newspaper Publisher McClatchy Teeters Near Bankruptcy,” Bloomberg headlined today. The story […]
Withering news
What a spooky week for news about news. First comes the Friday announcement that Facebook will launch a new headline-news site to push “deeply-reported and well-sourced” journalism from credible news organizations.
Tech threat grows
News analysis Nothing but bad news for Alaska commercial fisheries and one of Alaska’s historically largest employers is contained in a new report from Rabobank – the huge, Dutch financial company the […]
Doomsday
Despite The Nation magazine this month suggesting Alaska salmon in peril, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game says consumers need not worry about eating wild-caught fish from the 49th state. Salmon […]
Journalism’s problem
Commentary Once the artists of their day painted on the walls of caves, and art was worth nothing. This is the problem journalism faces in the Age of the Internet. Most journalism […]
