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Editorial responsibility for everything Alaska News publishes rests with Cale Green, who is editor-in-chief, and with Communities News, Inc. as publisher.

Corrections, complaints and challenges go to [email protected]. Nothing at this address sends an automated reply.

Most articles here are drafted by AI from a public meeting, a public record or an organisation’s own announcement, and each one says so. What that means in practice, and what a human does and does not check, is set out on the AI policy page. If an article carries no record of editor review, it says that on the article rather than claiming a review that did not happen.

To report an error, see corrections.

Alaska News is built by a team of five in Anchorage, Alaska. Each has a profile listing what they have published and edited here; their backgrounds are on the about page.

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  Cale Green

  CEO & Editor-in-Chief

  Answers for what is published. Corrections and reader concerns go to the editor.
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  Grant Robinson

  Journalism & Government
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  Lee Brown

  Engineering & Architecture
• 
  Lucas Brown

  Product & Operations
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  Matt Larkin

  Community & Strategy

Articles carry a byline. Where a person edited an AI draft, the byline leads with them and the draft is credited to the persona that produced it. Where the byline is an AI persona alone, it is labelled as one, on the article and in the page’s structured data. AI is a tool this newsroom uses to extend its reach; the names here are the people who use it.

Alaska News is owned, operated and published by Communities News, Inc., an Alaska business corporation (Alaska entity #10382961) based in Anchorage. The company builds and operates the Communities News platform, of which this newsroom is one instance. See communities.news for the platform itself.

No investor owns any part of it. There is no venture funding, no outside shareholder, and no parent media group.

Revenue comes from reader subscriptions, which fund the newsroom. Readers can also tip a story in dollars. The company keeps 20% of a tip and pays the card fee out of it, and 80% goes to the story's human authors and the editors who edited it.

No advertising today. If display advertising is ever introduced, it stays separate from the journalism: no sponsored articles, no paid placements, and no arrangement under which anyone pays to be covered or to avoid being covered.

Some work is contributed by volunteers who run transcription on their own machines. Where a volunteer’s machine produced the transcript behind an article, the article credits them.

Communities News, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska. [email protected]. More routes, including press and security, are on the contact page.