Conference 2026


VISITING PRESENTERS

Libby Casey is a video and audio journalist and guest anchor of NPR’s newscasts. She was The Washington Post’s news anchor and a senior manager on its video team, and started her career at KUAC in Fairbanks.
Katie Eastman is the Manager of Storytelling at KOTV in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Katie Orlinsky is a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine and an Explorer with the National Geographic Society.
B.A. Parker is the Ambie-Award winning co-host of NPR’s Code Switch. Photo by Brandon Watson for NPR.
Lynn Walsh (she/her) is the assistant director at Trusting News and an Emmy Award-winning journalist who has worked in investigative journalism at the national level and locally in California, Ohio, Texas and Florida. 
Alaska Press Club Conference

TRAVEL

HOTEL

Aloft Anchorage (View Map)

Group Rate $179 ( Book by Wednesday, March 18, 2026)

Start Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2026

End Date: Sunday, April 19, 2026


FLIGHTS

Alaska Airlines Discount Code

Alaska Press Club has secured a 10 percent discount code for flights between April 14-19. We will send this information out to members or you may contact info@alaskapressclub.com for the discount code.

Thank you!

Many thanks to our partners.

Atwood Foundation

Alaska Center for Excellence in Journalism Fund at the Alaska Community Foundation

University of Alaska Anchorage Department of Journalism and Public Communications

UAA College of Arts and Sciences

UAF Snedden Chair in Science and Environmental Journalism

Alaska Public Media

Alaska Teen Media Institute

The Stoop

Alaska Photographic Center

Akela Space