ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Alaska’s News Source has been recognized as “Station of the Year” for market 2, which includes all stations in markets ranked 35th and down.
The National Press Photographer’s Association awarded KTUU the “Station of the Year” award for market sizes 35 to 210, despite Alaska’s News Source being ranked #146 in the category, something that KTUU Director of Photography Eric Sowl acknowledges in the photographer’s philosophy.
“We are … a small market but please don’t tell that to the photojournalists working here,” the philosophy states. “They have to cover the largest geographic broadcast footprint in the United States. On any given day, they can find themselves anywhere in our state’s 665,400 square miles.”…