2024 Visiting Presenters

Hal Bernton

Hal Bernton joins us at the Alaska Press Club Conference (April 18-20). Formerly of The Seattle Times, The Oregonian and the Anchorage Daily News, he has expertise on fisheries, climate and energy reporting.

Judy Woodruff

Judy Woodruff is a senior correspondent and the former anchor and managing editor of the PBS NewsHour. Her career covering politics and other news spans five decades across PBS, NBC and CNN.

Allison Herrera

Allison Herrera is a senior reporter with American Public Media, and has spent her career covering numerous beats, including Indigenous affairs, criminal justice, climate, gender, equity, reproductive rights and more.

Les Zaitz

Les Zaitz is the owner and publisher of the award-winning Malheur Enterprise, a small newspaper serving a vast swath of rural Southeastern Oregon. He is also the head of a digital news service serving Oregon’s capital city.

Erica Proffer

Erica Proffer is an investigative multi-media journalist at KUVE in Austin, TX. She’s covered law enforcement, human trafficking, exposed weaknesses on the international boundary line and strives for justice in her reporting.

Carlyle Calhoun

Carlyle Calhoun is one of the hosts behind Sea Change, a bi-weekly podcast distributed by PRX and is a part of the NPR Podcast Network. The show dives deep into the environmental issues facing coastal communities on the Gulf Coast and beyond.

Halle Parker

Halle Parker is one of the hosts behind Sea Change, a bi-weekly podcast distributed by PRX and is a part of the NPR Podcast Network. The show dives deep into the environmental issues facing coastal communities on the Gulf Coast and beyond.

Chris Mooney

Chris Mooney is a Washington Post reporter covering climate change, energy and the environment. He previously worked at Mother Jones, writing about science and the environment in addition to hosting a weekly podcast.