EP 175 Reviving the Anchorage Press with Nat Herz and Veri di Suvero

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In this one, Cody talks to Nat Herz and Veri di Suvero, the editor and publisher behind the revived Anchorage Press. Nat is a longtime Alaska journalist. He spent years reporting for Alaska Public Media and the Anchorage Daily News before he founded Northern Journal—an independent, reader-supported publication focused on in-depth reporting about Alaska politics, natural resources, fisheries, energy, and the environment. Veri comes from the nonprofit and public-interest world, where they worked on issues ranging from consumer protection and energy policy to language access and government transparency. Now, Nat and Veri are both at the Anchorage Press, where they see its revival as a chance to bring back a locally rooted publication with a distinct voice—one that can do serious reporting while still making room for humor, irreverence, and some of the personality the Press has always been known for.

In 2022, after decades as Anchorage’s alternative newspaper, the Anchorage Press stopped publishing. Now, in 2026, it’s getting a second life under new ownership, with Nat and Veri partnering with the independent media company Noisy Creek, which owns The Stranger, the Portland Mercury, and the Chicago Reader. At the center of what Nat and Veri are trying to build is the idea that a local newspaper should actually feel local—shaped by the people, relationships, communities, and subcultures that make a place what it is. Historically, that’s something alternative weeklies have been particularly good at: paying attention to the parts of a city that larger news organizations can overlook, and creating a fuller, sometimes messier, and more recognizable portrait of the place they cover.