A colorful history of Alaska’s newspaper industry . Above: Bob Atwood, publisher of the Anchorage Times: Courtesy of the Atwood Foundation. Alaska has a legacy of bigger-than-life media personalities who ruled the presses like old-fashioned newspaper barons. They include Bob Atwood, publisher of the Anchorage Times; Kay Fanning, publisher of the Anchorage Daily News, C.W. “Bill” Snedden, publisher of the Fairbanks News Miner, Howard Rock, editor of the Tundra Times and Alice Rogoff, publisher of the short-lived Alaska Dispatch News. They all had a vision for Alaska, whether it was statehood, rights for Alaska Natives, or Alaska leading the world in Arctic research and innovation.