The States Newsroom, a progressive news organization funded by liberal philanthropic interests, will soon have the largest staff of political reporters in Alaska.
Yereth Rosen has announced she has been hired as the news organization’s fourth employee, working out of Anchorage. She has been working as a writer for Reuters, and for Arctic Today, an online publication owned by Alice Rogoff, former owner of the Alaska Dispatch News, which is now the Anchorage Daily News. She was also a reporter for the Alaska Dispatch News.
Rosen joins Andrew Kitchenman, who is leaving KTOO-FM’s newsroom; James Brooks, who is leaving the Anchorage Daily News; and Lisa Phu, who is leaving the Juneau Police Department, where she was a public information specialist.
Rosen will cover political news from Anchorage, while Kitchenman, Brooks, and Phu are based in the capital city.
The States Newsroom characterizers itself as an unbiased news source but is ideologically driven and backed by some of the biggest names in dark money in politics, including the Arabella Advisors, the Hopewell Fund, and others who have given to the news project, which intends to shape the narrative toward the Democratic Party. States Newsroom is tax-exempt and was listed by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism as a collection of “hyper partisan sites … masquerading as local news.”
