Conference 2026


VISITING PRESENTERS

Alaska Press Club Conference 2026
Constitution: Free Speech, Community and What Journalism is Made of
Katie Orlinsky is a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine and an Explorer with the National Geographic Society.
Katie Eastman is the Manager of Storytelling at KOTV in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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. 
Keri Blakinger is an investigative reporter at ProPublica, where she covers federal prisons and the death penalty.  Photo credit: Ilana Panich-Linsman

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

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