ANI Paper Gets New Owner

Alaska Public Media | By Ellen Lockyer

Published August 3, 2011 at 5:18 PM AKDT

Last month's announcement by Calista Corporation that it would liquidate it's chain of rural newspapers came as a shock to many, while it highlighted the economic plight of small town media. But another announcement Tuesday, could presage a new life for at least one of the papers.

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APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone. Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA elockyer (at) alaskapublic (dot) org | 907.550.8446 | About Ellen

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