March 21, 2026 — Vicky Ho — Challenges and Opportunities in Local News

Where: Glacier Brewhouse, 737 West 5th Ave. (free Saturday on-street parking; 2-hour limit)
Time: 11:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (the meeting starts at 11:45 a.m.)

In-Person Luncheon (Doors open at 11:15) or Zoom (your choice)
Program begins at 11:45 a.m.

Reservation Deadline: 12:00, Wednesday, March 18..

RSVP via any of these three ways:

1. Click here to Register and Pay

2. Email, akprocom@gmail.com

3. Call 907-240-1073 and leave a message, including a phone number where you can be reached. When calling or sending an email, please include how many people are coming and their names.

Members:
$28 for in-person lunch
$5 for Zoom link
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Guests:
$32 for in-person lunch
$8 for Zoom link
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Vicky Ho is the editor of the Anchorage Daily News, where she is responsible for news content across all platforms, as well as newsroom strategy and management. She joined the ADN in 2015 after working as an editor at a daily newspaper in Colorado. She’s previously worked as a coach in the Poynter Institute’s Table Stakes program, helping local news organizations across the country transition to more sustainable digital publishing models.

Ho is also a member of the board of the nonprofit Alaska Press Club. The theme for this year’s Press Club conference scheduled for April 16-18 in Anchorage, is “Constitution: Free Speech, Community and What Journalism is Made of.”

The Anchorage Daily News announced that Vicky Ho was named editor on April 1, 2025. (Marc Lester / ADN)

March 30, 2024 — John Sharify — The Power of Storytelling

Join us live at Glacier BrewHouse – or Zoom in – to hear highly-honored broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker John Sharify discuss his passion for storytelling. That passion has taken him around the world presenting workshops in newsrooms on the craft of video storytelling.

Sharify currently holds the Atwood Chair of Journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His various honors include 79 Emmys, nine National Edward R. Murrow awards, the DuPont Columbia award 2021, and reporter of the year for his work at NBC affiliate KING5 News in Seattle.

His 2010 documentary about the holocaust, “The Boys of Terezin,” has been shown in film festivals in Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, West Palm, Miami, New Jersey and Seattle. In 2012, Sharify gave a Ted x Talk about his award-winning documentary “Climb of a Lifetime,” chronicling the lives of recovering addicts who climbed Mt. Rainier.

A graduate of Princeton University, Sharify has a master of fine arts in film directing from Columbia University and was a student of Milos Forman, the Oscar-winning film director.
Join us live at Glacier BrewHouse – or Zoom in – to hear highly-honored broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker John Sharify discuss his passion for storytelling. That passion has taken him around the world presenting workshops in newsrooms on the craft of video storytelling.

Sharify currently holds the Atwood Chair of Journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His various honors include 79 Emmys, nine National Edward R. Murrow awards, the DuPont Columbia award 2021, and reporter of the year for his work at NBC affiliate KING5 News in Seattle.