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The newspaper has about 450 full-time employees in Anchorage, the Matanuska-Susitna Valley shown shaded in red north of Anchorage Matanuska-Susitna Valley (known locally as the Mat-Su Valley) is an area in south central Alaska south of the Alaska Range north and northeast of Anchorage. It is over 23,000 mile² (60,000 km²) in size, comprising the... Matanuska-Susitna Valley, the The Kenai Peninsula in Alaska The Kenai Peninsula is a large peninsula jutting from the southern coast of Alaska in the United States. It extends approximately 150 miles (240 km) southwest from the Chugach Mountains, south of Anchorage. It is separated from the mainland on the west by the Cook... Kenai Peninsula and the state capital, Juneau City and Borough is a borough located on the Gastineau Channel in the Alexander Archipelago in the state of Alaska. The city is nestled at the base of Mount Juneau, and across the channel from Douglas Island. As of 2000 the population is 30,711. The borough seat is... Juneau.

The beginning

The Anchorage Daily News was born as the weekly Anchorage News, publishing its first issue Jan. 13, 1946. The newspaper became an afternoon daily in May 1948, although it wouldn't publish a Sunday newspaper until June 13, 1965. By then, the Anchorage Daily News had become a morning newspaper, making that switch on April 13, 1964.

Pulitzer Prizes

The newspaper has won the The Pulitzer Prize is a United States literary award given out each April. Recipients of the award are chosen by an independent board and officially administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in the United States. The prize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and... Pulitzer Prize twice in the "Public Service" category, in 1976 and 1989. The 1976 Pulitzer was for its series "Empire: The Alaska Teamsters Story," which disclosed the effect and influence of the The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, commonly known as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) or simply the Teamsters, is one of the largest labor unions in the United States. A and (May 17) 1994 United Parcel Service - 1 day (February 7) 1995 and (July... Teamsters Union on the state's economy and politics. The 1989 series was "A People in Peril," which documented the high degree of alcoholism, suicide and despair in the Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. This term comprises a large number of distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of them... Native Alaskan population.

Ownership change

The McClatchy Company ( NYSE: MNI) is an American publishing company based in Sacramento, California that operates a number of newspapers and websites. The company originated in the within a week. Today, the company operates 12 daily newspapers and 18 community papers that are printed with less frequency. The in Anchorage... The McClatchy Company has owned the Daily News since 1979, when it bought a controlling interest from Kay Fanning, who had been , in Ancient Rome was the person who put on the games. In French, is a back formation from . producing a definitive edition of a classic authors works — a or . obtaining copy or recruiting authors — such as the . Depending on the writers skill, this editing can sometimes... editor and 1.A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. Major publishing companies include AOL Time Warner, including subsidiaries Warner Books and Little, Brown ASCII Baen Books Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hachette Filipacchi Media Harlequin Mills & Boon Harper Collins, including William Morrow and Avon... publisher since the death of her husband, Larry Fanning, in 1971. Kay Fanning continued as the head of the paper until mid-1983.

The Daily News was the first of of two newspapers that the then-122-year-old McClatchy Company bought outside the state. (The Kennewick is a city located in Benton County in south east Washington State. Its one of three cities collectively referred to as the Tri-Cities, Washington. Kennewick is located along the southwest bank of the Columbia River, opposite Pasco, Washington, and just south of the confluence of the Columbia... Kennewick, Wash., Tri-City Herald was the other.) McClatchy would later grow to become a national newspaper company.

Airing dirty laundry

In 1997, the weekly Anchorage Press newspaper ran a controversial article that alleged the Daily News' quality and newsroom morale had declined substantially since the McClatchy buyout and the Daily News' subsequent victory in its newspaper war with the Anchorage Times, which went out of business in 1992. The Press article's title, "Paper in Peril," was a In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. Parody exists in all art media, including literature, music, and cinema. In ancient Greek literature, a parody was a type of poem that imitated another poems style. Indeed, the... parody of the name of the Daily News' 1989 Pulitzer-winning series. While the Press' extensive interviews (mostly of unnamed sources) pointed out genuine problems and turmoil in the Daily News' The place where journalists, either reporters or editors, work to gather news to be published in a newspaper or magazine. Some publications referred to their newsroom as the city room. In a newsroom, reporters sit at desks, gather information, and write articles or stories, in the past on typewriters, then... newsroom, many believed the article unfairly maligned McClatchy in general and Daily News Editor in Chief Kent Pollock in particular. Others believed the article unintentionally reflected at least as poorly on the rank-and-file reporters and editors as it did on management.

External links

adn.com (http://www.adn.com/), the online edition of the Anchorage Daily News.

"Paper in Peril" (http://www.anchoragepress.com/archives/document6a7c.html) by David Holthouse, Anchorage Press, May 15-21, 1997.

References

"Anchorage Daily News history" (http://www.adn.com/help/history/), from the newspaper's Web site.

"Background on the Anchorage Daily News" (http://www.mcclatchy.com/newspapers/facts/adn/), from the McClatchy Company's Web site.

"Overview of the McClatchy Company" (http://www.mcclatchy.com/about/), from the company Web site.