Nat Herz: Journalist & Founder of Northern Journal

Nathaniel Herz is a freelance reporter who’s spent over a decade working in Alaska, including stints at the Anchorage Daily News and Alaska Public Media. A few years ago he started his own newsletter "Northern Journal," where he is supported by individual subscribers and grant funding to do his own projects in collaboration with various media organizations like ProPublica, the ADN, and Alaska Public Media. He also has a podcast called "Northern Journal." 

Nat is on the show today because he wanted to provide a counter perspective to the doom and gloom attitude present in some of my recent episodes discussing the future of media in Alaska.

Articles featured in today's show:

"This oil platform stopped pumping 30 years ago. Alaska still won’t make the owner tear it down."

"The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets."

"How a risky state investment in seafood cost Alaskans millions and left a fishing town in crisis."

Podcast episodes mentioned:

"Lisa Murkowski: 'The problem with standing on principle is when your constituents get hurt'"

"What happens when the trans-Alaska pipeline shuts down? And who pays to remove it?"