Grow with our newsroom
212 US counties have no local news source, and another 1,525 have only one. Cover your town and own your byline: Alaska News gives you the full record of the meetings we cover (the searchable transcript, the votes and a first draft) so your time goes to the calls, the context and the story nobody else has. Every article names and links the source material it was written from, so your readers can check your work against the record.
Alaska News is rated Least Biased, with High factual reporting, by Media Bias/Fact Check (August 2026), and scored blind every day against Alaska's other newsrooms. The coverage map shows where Alaska's outlets report, and where nobody does yet.
Skip the six-hour hearing
Start from the searchable transcript and a first draft, then report it out: the calls, the context, the angle only you know.
Community Review
Community editors review your articles and give you feedback, so your readers get journalism more than one person has checked.
Reader Feedback
See how your articles land with real-time reactions, comments, and structured feedback from your community.
Receive Tips
Any reader can tip a story in dollars. 80% of a tip goes to the people who made the story: its human authors and the editors who edited it. No paywall: your journalism reaches everyone.
How it works
Join a community
Find a community covering your area and request to join as a journalist.
Write articles
Cover meetings, write stories, or refine AI-drafted articles from livestream transcripts.
Get published
Submit for community review. Once approved, your article reaches readers who care.
Communities looking for journalists
Become a Compute Volunteer
Not a writer? You can still power local journalism. Compute volunteers share their computer's processing power to help transcribe government meetings. Your device does the heavy lifting while you go about your day.
1. Apply
Sign up and get approved as a compute volunteer
2. Install
Download the desktop app for Mac, Windows, or Linux
3. Transcribe
The app automatically claims and processes meeting audio
Ready to make a difference?
Local journalism starts with local people. Grow with us.