First in a series The story of the rise, the fall and the tragedy of the media empire former Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff and company president Tony Hopfinger […]
She’s back….
Unbowed by her more than $30 million business failure and what the fallout from a high-profile bankruptcy might have done to her credibility, former ADN.com owner Alice Rogoff is back in […]
Rogoff settles
This is a developing story. One of the richest men in the United States – David Rubenstein – is buying his ex-wife out of the wreckage of the would-be newspaper […]
News fraud
The publisher and owner of Arctic Today – which bills itself as the unrivaled source for “international news and perspective on a changing Arctic” – has been accused of fraud in a […]
Tangled up in news
The carcass of the now dead Alaska Dispatch News was dragged back into federal Bankruptcy Court Thursday with the wolves of the law sniffing still edible meat on the bones of what […]
The fall of Rogoff
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 […]
Rogoff divorces
This is a developing story Creditors of the bankrupt and now gone Alaska Dispatch News might still be out a couple million dollars, but it appears former Dispatch owner and publisher […]
Arctic Wow!
The strange and tangled tale of the Alaska Dispatch News, the 49th state’s largest news organization, just keeps getting stranger. As the Binkley family of Fairbanks was buying the newspaper and the website […]
Old News new?
Fresh out of bankruptcy, the Alaska Dispatch News appears to be getting ready to distance itself from former and failed publisher Alice Rogoff at the same time she is making a bid […]
News evolves
In the Age of the Internet, the power of the press – an invisible force that once put fear into politicians – is fading fast in Alaska where the state’s largest newspaper […]