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Paula Dobbyn

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Reporter at Anchorage Daily News; Former Snedden Chair of Science and Environmental Journalism at University of Alaska Fairbanks

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 6h
The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world, causing the frozen ground to thaw at a record rate. (Via The Associated Press)
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Heat-trapping gas once frozen in Arctic ground is slowly leaking and warming the planet
The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world, causing the frozen ground to thaw at a record rate.
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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 4h
While shelter beds in Anchorage may fill quickly, some are only seasonal. Plus, clients can present complex challenges that can make for unpredictable long-term housing solutions.
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Outreach workers race to fill Anchorage shelter beds. Sometimes it’s a tough sell.
While beds may fill quickly, clients present complex challenges that can make for unpredictable long-term housing solutions.
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Paula Dobbyn @907808.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Alaska’s Fish and Game Commissioner says he sees “much opportunity” for Alaska in the White House executive order, particularly the section that calls for predator control of sharks and certain pinnipeds that prey on salmon.
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 25/09/2026
Peltola is in a close race against Republican incumbent Dan S. Sullivan for one of Alaska’s two U.S. Senate seats. Ivan Moore of Alaska Survey Research, a political polling firm said he doesn’t know whether the New York Times article will affect the eventual result. (Via Alaska Beacon)
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A New York Times article claimed hostility by Mary Peltola. Will it affect Alaska’s Senate race?
Additional reporting shows conflicts between Alaskans and East Coast staff during Peltola’s term in Congress.
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MS NOW Public Relations @msnowcomms.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@ms.now statement on its journalists being denied access to the White House grounds:
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Startling speech by a city council member after newsroom cuts at the Lexington, KY Herald Leader. Urge you to watch, listen and learn of the bond that a good newspaper can create without losing its independence. Owner: Hedge fund Chatham Asset Management kiesow.net/how-to-talk-... via kiesow.net
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How to talk about the local news crisis: We are all worse off.
Last week, McClatchy rolled out the latest round of destructive cuts to its local reporting staff. The cuts themselves are barely newsworthy within the industry at this point, though the futility of '...
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Paula Dobbyn @907808.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My latest for Magic Canoe, focusing on the growth of cultural tourism in #Alaska
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Kettle @kittenstrudel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ashley Percival, untitled, colored pencil, pen, paint, and digital tools, 2026
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Magic Canoe @magiccanoe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Learn more about why peonies grow so well in Alaska by reading the full article from New Economies Leadership desk writer Paula Dobbyn: buff.ly/FFBTP0b #RuralEconomy @907808.bsky.social
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Bought Peonies Recently? They’re Probably from Alaska. - Magic Canoe
How Alaska’s expanding peony flower economy is adapting to an unstable climate.
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Paula Dobbyn @907808.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Despite two weeks of near-constant rain in Southcentral Alaska, my backyard fireweed is holding its own #fireweed #Alaska #summer #Anchorage
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Paula Dobbyn @907808.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Share This Article Northern pike have invaded more than 150 waterways around Anchorage and Mat-Su, decimating native fish species as well as local sport fishing lodges and air charters. My story for @insideclimatenews.org at the link below. #aknews #alaska insideclimatenews.org/news/0807202...
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Climate Change Is Helping an Invasive Predator Wreak Havoc on Iconic Alaskan Fish - Inside Climate News
WILLOW, Alaska—Corey Ercolani pulled a northern pike from a gillnet and slit its belly with a knife. Inside its guts lay fresh evidence of a growing biological crime: a dead juvenile salmon. A coho, o...
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Paula Dobbyn @907808.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
My latest for Magic Canoe. A dive into some new industries emerging from #Alaska’s #rainforest 🌲
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Paula Dobbyn @907808.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A friend’s Himalayan blue poppy in late evening sunshine. #Alaska #midnightsun
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Paula Dobbyn @907808.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A simple bouquet to brighten up the dining room. It’s the small things.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/06/2026
As a physician and the chief medical officer of Hospice Buffalo, Chris Kerr has seen his patients experience end-of-life dreams and visions for nearly 30 years. He has made a mission of educating the public about the value of deathbed dreams.
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The profound meaning and mystery of deathbed visions
Shirley's dreams and visions would lead her and her daughter Debbie toward secrets Shirley had never before told her family — and revelations that would change what Debbie understood about her mother'...
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Paula Dobbyn @907808.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Summer swan love. 🥰 #anchorage #alaska
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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 27/05/2026
Solar power expected to soon be cheaper than natural gas power in Anchorage, writes @alaska.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/briefs/solar...
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Solar power expected to soon be cheaper than natural gas power in Anchorage | Alaska Beacon
Because gas prices are expected to rise in coming years amid a growing shortage in Cook Inlet, the solar project is poised to become cheaper.
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Paula Dobbyn @907808.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Signs of spring in Anchorage, finally.
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Paula Dobbyn @907808.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Tonight’s rainbow over East Anchorage following some heavy spring showers.
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Honolulu Civil Beat @civilbeat.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The Mike Berger Award is conferred by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, whose faculty judges cited the "tenacity" of Civil Beat's reporting.
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Civil Beat Series On Abusive Hawaiʻi Foster Dad Wins National Award
The Mike Berger Award is conferred by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, whose faculty judges cited the "tenacity" of Civil Beat's reporting.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/04/2026
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a 240-year-old newspaper set to close after a protracted battle between its parent company and the paper’s union, was sold to a nonprofit that promises to keep the paper running.
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Baltimore Banner’s nonprofit publisher buys the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The 240-year-old newspaper was set to close next month after a long battle between its parent company and its union.
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/03/2026
The partnership is one of the first of its kind in the state and leaders say it is a way to strengthen and uplift Indigenous studies in higher education.
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UAS and Tlingit & Haida partner to create School of Indigenous Studies in ‘historic moment’
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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Really fantastic, new reporting by my colleague Yereth Rosen.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 20/03/2026
Trump wants to put you in a massive, secret government database: Agencies are reportedly pooling immigration data, Social Security numbers, and more into a central database. FPF is suing to learn how deep it goes. Read more from @laurenleharper.bsky.social in @theintercept.com:
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Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database
Agencies are reportedly pooling immigration data, Social Security numbers, and more into a central database. FPF is suing to learn how deep it goes.
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Paula Dobbyn @907808.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Striking Down Pentagon Press Limits, Judge Vindicates Independent Journalism www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...
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Striking Down Pentagon Press Limits, Judge Vindicates Independent Journalism
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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A caution to viewers: this is a very explicitly violent true-crime account imo of the case of the serial killer Brian Steven Smith. It also raises important questions of justice for the victims & families of Kathleen Jo Henry, Veronica Abouchuk & Cassandra Boskofsy alaskabeacon.com/2026/02/27/n...
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National series highlights Alaska MMIP crisis, questions of justice for Alaska Native people | Alaska Beacon
A new investigative documentary series on HBO highlights the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous peoples in Alaska.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
“This is an important win not just for The Handbasket but for the promise of transparency in DC. The court’s ruling vindicates the public’s right of access to body cam footage, and ensures that the public will get a full and accurate accounting of the episode at the US Institute of Peace last year.”
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Judge orders DC police to release bodycam videos related to DOGE takeover of Institute of Peace
RCFP attorneys represented journalist Marisa Kabas in a public records lawsuit seeking access to the police bodycam footage.
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Jake Dye @jakecdye.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
When Carpenter Media bought three Alaska newspapers, they had nine journalists in the state. Next week, they will have one.
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Paula Dobbyn @907808.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
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He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years
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Paula Dobbyn @907808.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Full moon time in Anchorage. The late-afternoon skies and returning light are so pretty now. #Alaska
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repgray.bsky.social @repgray.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I worked on this editorial for more than half a year. I hope it adequately captures the challenges of Alaska media. Big thanks to @adndotcom for publishing it. www.adn.com/opinions/202... #akleg #AlaskaHistory
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Opinion: The state of Alaska’s media
Journalism in the Last Frontier isn’t dying — but it’s fighting to survive in a louder, meaner world.
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
ICYMI: Alaska is prosecuting 11 American Samoans for violating election laws so confusing and poorly explained that, crucially, the state itself did not even understand or enforce them. boltsmag.org/prosecuted-f... More in this thread:
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Paula Dobbyn @907808.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Good news for the local journalism ecosystem in #Alaska
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Paula Dobbyn @907808.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Winter beauty in urban #Alaska.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/12/2025
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: propub.li/3MTlm33
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
It's not just the newspapers. "While declines to print readership are almost a foregone conclusion, 'digital traffic to local news sites is experiencing a cratering similar to that of print,' State of Local News Project director Zach Metzger writes in the report. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/in-m...
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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 17/10/2025
Anchorage is setting up four shelters that could potentially accommodate more than 1,000 people displaced by unprecedented storms that left entire Western Alaska communities largely uninhabitable.
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Anchorage preparing to house more than 1,000 Western Alaska storm evacuees across 4 shelters
Anchorage will temporarily shelter people at the Alaska Airlines Center, the Egan Center and the Fairview and Spenard recreation centers.
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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 17/10/2025
In photos: Tears and uncertainty in day two of mass evacuation from western Alaska, reports Corinne Smith for the @alaskabeacon.com
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In photos: Tears and uncertainty in day two of mass evacuation from western Alaska | Alaska Beacon
Flights continued on a C-17 military transport plane Thursday evacuating hundreds of residents of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok after the devastation of ex-Typhoon Halong.
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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 16/10/2025
In photos: Mass evacuation of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok residents begins from western Alaska, reports Corinne Smith for the @alaskabeacon.com
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In photos: Mass evacuation of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok residents begins from western Alaska | Alaska Beacon
Residents of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok began evacuating en masse on Wednesday, flying in military aircraft from their western Alaska communities which were devastated by ex-Typhoon Halong. On Wednesday…
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This is a very good paragraph. From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... By Nancy A. Youssef
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Michael Armstrong @maarmstrong.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@nytimes.com reports on the resignation of four Alaska journalists. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...
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Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 01/10/2025
Most of the staff running three Alaska newspapers in Homer, Kenai-Soldotna and Juneau resigned in protest Monday. “We cannot do our jobs knowing that pressure from an elected official can mean our stories are edited without prior consultation with us," they wrote. akpub.io/4o371i7
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Staff at 3 Alaska newspapers quit after owners give in to pressure from Republican lawmaker
Much of the staff behind the Kenai Peninsula Clarion, the Homer News and the Juneau Empire resigned Monday, citing owner Carpenter Media's decision to edit a story without consulting them.
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Was the FCC’s pressure to pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air illegal? Here’s what the Constitution and Supreme Court say. #firstamendment #supremecourt #fcc #politics #news #jimmykimmel
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
New study says more than 70 percent of Atlantic corals will "begin dying by 2040 even under optimistic climate warming scenarios."
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Corals Won’t Survive a Warmer Planet, a New Study Finds
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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 05/09/2025
Alaska Natives, barred from king salmon fishing, fight for their right to manage the Yukon River, reports Alyssa Chioniere for @prismreports.org via @alaskabeacon.com
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Alaska Natives, barred from king salmon fishing, fight for their right to manage the Yukon River | Alaska Beacon
Alaska Native communities along the Yukon River are fighting for the right to manage the river and save the remaining salmon stocks for future generations, before their way of life dies off with the…
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Born of necessity, far from ideal, High Plains Public Radio will build out a “contributors network” using part-time and volunteer community members coordinated by a lean central editorial team. Goal: "to serve more and to serve better." www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/with... I wish them luck, do you?
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With public media under siege, High Plains Public Radio builds a blueprint to cover more rural news with fewer resources
To expand regional coverage while keeping costs down, HPPR aims to build out a “contributors network” of part-time and volunteer community members coordinated by a lean central editorial team.
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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
One of at least 16 events planned across Alaska today, tomorrow and Saturday to protest the Trump-Putin summit and show solidarity for Ukraine.
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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
If you're a storymap kind of person, here's one that nicely explains what's happening & why with the glacial lake outburst flooding now underway on the Mendenhall River near Juneau. #akwx #ClimateChange #Flood #Glacier @spiraledu.bsky.social @alaska.bsky.social storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/72ce...
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Glacier Outburst Floods: Mendenhall Glacier
Every year since 2011, Juneau, Alaska, has been impacted by a unique type of flood that can only occur near places with glaciers.
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Paula Dobbyn @907808.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
President Trump has said he wants the U.S. to build or acquire 40 new icebreakers to close the gap with Russia and to counter the growing influence of both Russia, and more recently China, in the #Arctic.
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Paula Dobbyn @907808.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Although he wants to rid his island of reef-killing cesspools, Mayor Kimo Alameda said there's no money to help homeowners make the costly conversions to septic tanks. “It’s an unfunded state mandate and it’s stressing everybody out… especially on our island,” Alameda told me in recent interview.
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