About Alaska News

Over 1,800 US counties have zero local newspaper coverage. Traditional newsrooms cost $300K-$600K per year, making hyperlocal journalism economically impossible in most communities. Meanwhile, thousands of these same communities livestream their government meetings on YouTube. Nobody covers them.

We built Community News to change that equation. AI handles the expensive parts (attending meetings, transcription, first drafts) while humans add what matters most: editorial judgment, local context, and community trust. Alaska News is the first live newsroom on the platform.

Every article flows through three tiers:

• AI Baseline — Every livestreamed meeting automatically generates draft articles, guaranteeing no meeting goes uncovered
• Community Drafts — Any community member can write articles directly from the transcript
• Peer Review — Members review and approve articles before publication, building trust and accuracy

Every article covers meetings from multiple angles: detailed recaps of individual meetings, patterns that emerge over time, and broader context comparing local decisions to state and national trends.

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The transcript is verifiable proof. Every article links back to specific transcript segments from the original meeting. Click any claim, hear the exact moment it was said. This level of transparency is something traditional media has never been able to offer.

AI content is always labeled. Every AI-drafted article is clearly marked and must pass community peer review before publication. We don't hide that AI helps us — we're transparent about it because it makes us faster without sacrificing accuracy.

We're community-owned, not venture-backed. No investors pushing for engagement metrics or rage bait. No algorithmic manipulation. When you subscribe, 50% becomes your credits and 50% funds the platform. When you read, your credits go directly to the author.

We build in public. The platform code is private today, but we maintain a public-facing repo for general issues, feedback, and open-source pieces we may extract over time. If you spot an error in any article, let us know. We correct it.

Community News is built by a team of five in Anchorage, Alaska. We started here because Alaska is one of the most underserved media markets in the country, and because we believe world-class technology companies can be built from anywhere.

Alaska News is the first production launch: one domain, one statewide newsroom, and one proof point for a platform designed to support many communities and many local news domains over time.

Alaska News is the first newsroom on Community News, the platform built in Anchorage to make hyperlocal journalism viable where legacy media cannot. The platform is designed to expand. Any community with a serious editorial team and a public-meeting cadence can run a newsroom on it.

For more on the platform, the company, expansion plans, and how communities can bring a newsroom online, visit communities.news.

The Community News platform was developed by Geeks in the Woods, a software engineering factory based in Alaska.

Whether you want to cover your community, contribute photos, volunteer compute power, or just stay informed — we'd love to have you.