By now many reading this have heard of the kerfuffle involving the German news weekly Der Speigel and award-winning reporter Claas Relotius, who created “fake news” at a world-class […]
News ecology
Who to trust?
In a divided country with views on almost everything colored by political leanings right or left, it’s time to seriously ponder whether U.S. journalists lived a decades-long delusion of objectivity into […]
Napkin in court
Part two of two On one issue, the legally dueling former editor of the state’s largest news organization and its ex-owner are in total agreement: In those halcyon days of early 2014 when […]
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 […]
More journo-cide
Journalism’s effort to devalue journalism continues
Buying fish
The state of Alaska might have banned salmon farming in 1990, but a craigmedred.news investigation has found the state of Alaska now big into the salmon-farming business. The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation […]
Land of the brave
From south to north, the dynamism that makes Alaska such an interesting place to live was on display over the weekend. First it was Bear Glacier Lagoon, a huge glacial lake […]
Fix the news
Commentary If you’re reading this and you have a social media account of some sort, you hold the power to change the news. So if you think journalism is broken […]
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 […]
The fallacy
Commentary The Alaska Dispatch News, the 49th state’s largest newspaper and most-visited online news site, is teetering on the edge of financial collapse, and some on the right in one of the […]
