Pat Dougherty: former editor of the Anchorage Daily News
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Pat Dougherty: former editor of the Anchorage Daily News
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Former editor of the Anchorage Daily News Pat Dougherty worked at that paper for 34 years. Born in 1950 as the eldest son of an Air Force pilot father, Pat never found a long term home till he landed in Anchorage in 1975 to take a job as a sports reporter at the Anchorage Times. Once transferring over to the ADN in 1980, he worked his way up the ranks and was the editor of the series that won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize. The ADN has won the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service three times. Only three papers in the history of the awards have won more.- But, Dougherty fears that the ADN's best days are behind it -- as is true for most legacy newspapers in our country. We discuss the current media environment in Alaska including the influence of blogs like Must Read Alaska & its founder Suzanne Downing, and The Alaska Landmine and its founder Jeff Landfield, as well as other more traditional news outlets like Alaska Public Media and the Alaska Beacon.