Larry Fanning's death in 1971. Kay Fanning continued as the head of the paper until mid-1983. While retaining some financial interest in the paper, she went on to become the editor of The Christian Science Monitor. The Daily News was the first of two newspapers that the then-122-year-old, California-based, McClatchy Company bought outside the state; the Kennewick, Washington, Tri-City Herald was the next. McClatchy would later grow to become a national newspaper company, including the purchase of the Knight-Ridder chain in 2006. Purchase by the Alaska Dispatch In April, 2014, it was announced that the Alaska Dispatch web publication would be buying the Anchorage Daily News for US$34 million. The deal closed in May, 2014. 2014 name change On Sunday, July 20, 2014, the parent-company of the ADN, the Alaska Dispatch, renamed the paper the Alaska Dispatch News. 2017 bankruptcy Adn.com announced on August 13, 2017, that it had filed for bankruptcy after being sued for back rent by Alaska telecommunications company GCI. Control of operations was immediately assumed by a group led by Ryan Binkley of Fairbanks, who were in the process of purchasing the paper. In November 2017, the paper's Facebook page reverted its name back to Anchorage Daily News; the paper itself rebranded to Anchorage Daily News on November 18. Pulitzer Prizes The newspaper has won the Pulitzer Prize three times in the Public Service category, in 1976, 1989 and 2020. No other Alaska newspaper has ever won a Pulitzer. The 1976 Pulitzer was for its series "Empire: The Alaska Teamsters Story," which disclosed the effect and influence of the Teamsters Union on the state's economy and politics. The Daily News was at that time the smallest daily newspaper ever to win the Public Service Pulitzer. The 1988 series was "A People in Peril," which documented the high degree of alcoholism, suicide and despair in the Alaska Native population. In 2020, the Daily News again won the Public Service Pulitzer for the paper's "Lawless" series, about the failings of Alaska’s criminal justice system, particularly in rural Alaska. The Daily News shared that Pulitzer with ProPublica, with whom the Daily News had collaborated on the series. References External links from the Alaska Film Archives – Segment "Life and Times of the News" (1977) discusses the problems the ADN experienced under the joint operating agreement. "Paper in Peril" by David Holthouse, Anchorage Press, May 15–21, 1997. 1946 establishments in