Tom Hewitt, who has been editorial page editor of the Anchorage Daily News for six and a half years, is leaving the newspaper and heading back to his hometown of Fairbanks, where another job — a government gig — awaits him starting Monday.
Hewitt said in a social media post that his marriage broke up, prompting many life changes. He made the comment on bluesky, a social media site where Alaska liberals have drifted; he has recently erased all of his posts at X, which is what some other liberal media members and politicos are doing in a fit of pique since free speech has been restored at X and conservatives now are able to engage there.
Among the changes at the ADN itself is the unionization of the newsroom, but it’s unclear that Hewitt wanted to participate. 80% of the newsroom at the paper signed authorization cards this year and petitioned to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board.
Before the ADN, Hewitt was editorial page editor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and news director of KTVF and KXDF. He is a lifelong Alaskan and connected to Fairbanks, where he also went to college.
The ADN has not yet said whether it will replace Hewitt or outsource the work of opinion writing and letter editing. Word is that Hewitt is going to work for Borough Mayor Grier Hopkins, a Democrat.
