Dillehay offers unique perspective on journalism and the free press by Carol Sturgulewski To a room full of journalism professionals, the numbers were both startling and enlightening: U.S. television coverage of international news has fallen from 45 percent in the 1970s, to 12 percent today. Of some 1,400 daily newspapers in the U.S., only 20 […]

Coyne sets the scene on narrative journalism by Tara Witterholt After years of waiting for our invite to lunch, Anchorage Press writer Amanda Coyne admitted she felt like “the dorky girl at the dance.” But on January 6, Alaska Press Women motioned her to the popular table and asked her about working for the alternative […]

Daily News editor addresses APW by Elaine Rhode “We’re now in the information business, not just the newspaper business,” the editor of the Anchorage Daily News told November’s gathering of Alaska Press Women. The winds of change are coming from online, and so far, the forecast is encouraging. “The Internet expands our audience and gives […]

Leading by example: Anchorage business woman builds successful television station by Pamela Eldridge Carol Schatz says she selected the call letters of KYES for her locally owned television station because they sounded upbeat, but they could also represent Schatz’ personality. From her start as a volunteer disc jockey on KYUK radio in Bethel, to owning […]

Doogan happy here and now by Elizabeth T. Hedgepeth The foremost orator and political speechmaker of the late 19th century, Robert G. Ingersoll, is noted for having said, “The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here.” Somewhere in Mike Doogan’s past he must have read Ingersoll because he is […]