Kay Fanning's Alaska Story: Memoir of a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Newspaper Publisher on America's Northern Frontier
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In 1965, Kay Woodruff Field, 38, a newly divorced former debutante once described as the "Grace Kelly of Chicago," loaded her three children into a Buick station wagon and headed north to start a fresh life in Alaska. Little did she know that she would became the most influential woman in Alaska. Fanning took a job at the Anchorage Daily News, a struggling morning newspaper that she and her new husband, Larry Fanning, later bought. After Larrys death, Kay became editor and publisher. She pressed for settlement of Alaskas Native land claims, alienated advertisers by covering environmental issues deemed to threaten development, and in 1976 won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of corruption in Alaskas powerful Teamsters Union. Kay Fanning died in 2000, her memoir unfinished. Katherine Field Stephen, herself a reporter, was determined to finish her mothers book. And she did, by inviting eighteen of Kays friends and colleagues to contribute personal stories about Kay Fanning.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0974501476
ISBN13:9780974501475
Release Date:November 2006
Publisher:Epicenter Press (WA)
Length:255 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"
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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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