Anchorage: Communications

Newspapers and Magazines

The major daily newspaper in Anchorage is the morning Anchorage Daily News. Several other newspapers are published in Anchorage, including Petroleum News, a paper covering the petroleum industry in Alaska and Canada; and the Sourdough Sentinel, a weekly covering happenings at Elmendorf Air Force Base. Also published in Anchorage are Northern Pilot Magazine, Alaska Business Monthly, which focuses on state business developments, and Senior Voice.

Television and Radio

Anchorage has four commercial television stations. The city is also served by cable television and by fourteen AM and FM radio stations broadcasting a variety of formats such as adult contemporary, country, and broadcasts from National Public Radio and American Public Radio.

Media Information: Anchorage Daily News, 1001 North-way Drive, PO Box 149001, Anchorage, AK 99514-9001; telephone (907)257-4200.

Anchorage Online

Alaska Department of Education and Early Development. Available www.educ.state.ak.us/home.html

Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau. Available www.anchorage.net

Anchorage Daily News. Available www.adn.com

Anchorage Economic Development Corporation. Available www.aedcweb.com

Anchorage Municipal Libraries. Available www.lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us

Anchorage School District. Available www.asd.k12.ak.us

Municipality of Anchorage Home Page. Available www.ci.anchorage.ak.us

State of Alaska. Available www.state.ak.us

Selected Bibliography

Muir, John, Travels in Alaska (Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1915)

Rich, Kim, Johnny's Girl: A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up in Alaska's Underworld (New York: Morrow, 1993)

Woodward, Kesler E., Painting in the North: Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum of History and Art. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993)