Last week, Josh and I went on a bike ride after work. It was a clear, sunny night in the tundra north of Nome. It was 9 pm, but by the sun, it looked like mid afternoon. We rode a path tucked next to one of the main roads going out of town. We call [...]
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A Visit from Home
Sorry for the late blog! It’s been such a whirl-wind this past week that I thought today was Monday. But Tuesday it is, and time to reflect on what has been an amazing few days at KNOM. My twin sister is visiting from New York City! It has been very exciting to have my sister [...]
Season of Change
Ah, April. It’s Spring in Nome — a balmy 25 degrees and flooded with return of the sun. Every morning on KNOM, we read the weather forecast. It’s one of the less glamorous aspects of the news job. But it’s critically important to our listeners, especially during blizzards, storms, or high winds. And each morning [...]
Iditarod!
Iditarod has come and gone. I am exhausted. The entire KNOM staff is exhausted. As dog teams raced their way from Anchorage, through the Alaska Range, up the Yukon River and to the Bering Sea Coast we followed them closely, tracking mushers on GPS, digging through websites for race analysis, listening to Laureli’s interviews with mushers [...]
Wait, I’m a reporter in Subarctic Alaska?
As of February 27, I have been in Alaska for six months and ten days. I’m more than halfway through my first term of service so I thought it was a good time to write a reflective blog post, to consider my experience so far, how I have grown, how being a KNOM volunteer has [...]
News at KNOM
Hello, future KNOM News volunteer. Have you ever wondered what news is like at KNOM? Here are the basics: What type of news does KNOM cover? KNOM practices community journalism. We cover news that affects our listening area: Nome and the rural communities and Alaska native villages in Western Alaska. We try to create a [...]
A Different Kind of Ocean
When I hear “ocean” I imagine sun, heat, waves crashing, or rolling, or moving. Not silence. And not ice. But last year, while applying to KNOM, I realized in Nome, I would see the ocean freeze. And I of the Nevada desert, of summer days at a freshwater lake, visits to California beaches and Massachusetts [...]
Wales, Alaska
Two weeks ago, Daynee and I got a chance to travel to Wales, the western-most village in continental Alaska. I went to cover a news story, involving an artist in residence at the school, and Daynee went to record the local dialect of Inupiaq. Here’s some photos of our trip: —————————————————————– Daynee and I left Nome [...]
Naliġaaniktuŋa!
Last Tuesday KNOM Volunteers experienced our first election, Nome-style– with no lines at the polls, Inupiaq “I Voted!” stickers, and beluga whales. Josh, Margaret, Lucus, Dayneé and I all registered to vote in Alaska when we got our Alaskan drivers licenses. We were among the 19000 Alaskans who voted this year. Alaska has one Representative, [...]
Anything Can Happen: Sports Reporting, Alaska Style
Standing on a sled controlling fourteen huskies who are pulling you and the sled over ice and snow, through wind chills of 50 below and blizzards for hours on end, overnight, day after day, is not an eccentric activity in Alaska. It’s the state sport. Mushing in Alaska is like football in Oregon or baseball [...]