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Primary website:
alaskadispatch.com
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Alaska Dispatch a for-profit online newsmagazine that covers state and local issues in Alaska.

The site was founded by Tony Hopfinger and Amanda Coyne in 2008. Alice Rogoff, former CFO of U.S. News & World Report, became its majority owner in 2009. The site has an editorial staff of about 12, along with a sales staff of three.

The site publishes numerous articles from contributors, giving some of them handheld cameras to record videos. It also runs a citizen-driven site called Tundra Telegraph. Rogoff has said the goal is for the Dispatch to be profitable by 2011, driven largely by an aggressive advertising strategy.

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Recent Nieman Lab coverage:
Oct. 18, 2010 / Laura McGann
Online journalist cuffed in Alaska explains his biz model — When I talked with the editor of a startup news site in Alaska, Tony Hopfinger, last week, he told me his business model is based on cultivating an audience inside the Frontier State, while still writing stories with a n...

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Primary author: Mark Coddington. Main text last updated: May 10, 2011.
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