Kay Fanning's Alaska Story: Memoir of a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Newspaper Publisher on America's Northern Frontier
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Kay Fanning's Alaska Story is an inspirational memoir of how Kay built the Anchorage Daily News into a bastion of progressive leadership. She did it with grace and integrity, always placing public interests above special interests. In 1965, Kay loaded her three children into a station wagon and headed north for a fresh start in Alaska. She took a job at the Anchorage Daily News, eventually purchasing the struggling newspaper with her new husband, Larry Fanning. Just as they were gaining steam, however, Larry died of a heart attack. Kay became editor and publisher, turning the Daily News into Alaska's largest newspaper. She and her newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for coverage of corruption in Alaska's powerful Teamsters Union. In 1983, Kay headed East to become editor of the Christian Science Monitor. She began working on this memoir, but she died before it was finished. Katherine Field Stephen, her daughter, finished the book by inviting eight of Kay Fanning's friends and associates to contribute stories of how Kay helped define Alaska's issues and shape its future.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0974501468
ISBN13:9780974501468
Release Date:November 2006
Publisher:Epicenter Press (WA)
Length:255 Pages
Weight:1.26 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
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Kay Fanning's Alaska Story
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This is a story of how courage, faith and a motive to see justice and equality prevail is played out in Alaska. Kay came from an elite background and yet was very practical and down to earth in her dealings with everyone she met. She lived her religion and it saw her through trials that would challenge even the strongest individual. It is a good story of how ethics and morals win out when the motive is pure and the faith stong enough. Anyone should be enchanted by this story. It is too bad Kay did not get to finish it herself, but the last half written by those who knew her well demonstrates what a very special lady she was and how we can all learn from her strenth and devotion. I recommend it to anyone but especially those interested in the newspaper industry or those who want a great story about a women beating the odds when nobody thought she could do it.
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