| How the Pioneer Press Came to Be ###It was New Year's Eve 2007. My wife, Gale, and I had decided to give the Talkeetna Pioneer Press Web site a print component called the Alaska Pioneer Press. I was far from home, working as temporary editor at my old newspaper in Northern California for seven weeks. This was week six. I set about designing a publication. It had to be easy to read, clean in looks, accurate in spelling and grammar and cover the local news fairly. Its high professional standards for accuracy and fairness also had to adhere to our community standards. The design for a new publication took shape on the screen of an old MacIntosh computer in the office of the 110-year-old Benicia Herald newspaper. On Feb. 17, 2008 the first Alaska Pioneer Press rolled off the press units at the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman in Wasilla. The rest is history -- one still being written. ### My wife, Gale, and I started the Alaska Pioneer Press (akpioneerpress.com) to provide up-to-date local news, briefs and club and entertainment news. We thank our readers and advertisers for their tremendous support over these past 11 months. Please send club announcements, births, weddings and anniversaries as well as story ideas to editor@akpioneerpress.com. For a list of businesses that carry our publication click here. John R. Moses, Editor and Publisher - 30- |
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ABOVE: The first printing of the Alaska Pioneer Press heading for distribution, Feb. 17, 2008.
BELOW: The final first edition copyediting session. Before there was a real office, there was a kitchen table
in our Talkeetna cabin. (Pardon our clutter, we were still settling in.) Putting out Vol. 1, No. 1 pretty much wore
out that old Sony VAIO laptop. Special thanks to Sarah Birdsall, a journalistic goddess and our first and only
official copy editor.
BELOW: The final first edition copyediting session. Before there was a real office, there was a kitchen table
in our Talkeetna cabin. (Pardon our clutter, we were still settling in.) Putting out Vol. 1, No. 1 pretty much wore
out that old Sony VAIO laptop. Special thanks to Sarah Birdsall, a journalistic goddess and our first and only
official copy editor.
ABOVE: Rolling off the presses at the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman: The first Alaska Pioneer Press.