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The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner building as it looks today. The News-Miner is the oldest continually-operating paper in Alaska, beginning operations in 1903

The long history of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

The 1980 book “Adventures in Alaska Journalism since 1903” relates that itinerant newspaper man, George M. Hill, freighted a small press from Dawson to Fairbanks in 1903. Once in Fairbanks he established the Weekly...