Layoffs hit Alaska Dispatch News newsroom
Nearly a dozen newsroom employees have been laid off, including two long-time fixtures of Alaska journalism.
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What’s next for the Alaska Dispatch News
Alaska’s largest newspaper has a new owner. A federal bankruptcy judge approved the sale on Monday of the Alaska Dispatch News to the Fairbanks-based Binkley…
If the Binkleys won’t buy the ADN’s printing presses, the feds say they should be liquidated sooner than later
The U.S. Trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of the Alaska Dispatch News is worried that more than $21 million in unpaid debt will unpaid without intervention from the courts.
Court approves transfer of ADN to Binkleys, but closure still a ‘distinct possibility’
The Binkley group will get control of the paper as they prepare for a potential bankruptcy sale in three weeks.
Binkley family may shut down the ADN if “numbers just won’t work,” latest filing says
The deal is being structured so the Binkleys can take on the paper without $2.5 million in debt owed by the ADN, and that’s not going over well with the creditors.