In 2009 , the site earned positive coverage for its series on a massacre of caribou in the rural Alaska village of Point Hope . In 2010 , the '' Columbia Journalism Review '' called Alaska Dispatch " a regional reporting powerhouse , " while the '' American Journalism Review '' did a lengthy profile of the news site 's willingness to fly a reporter thousands of miles to cover the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico . In that same profile , an editor of the '' Anchorage Daily News '' newspaper , at the time one of the site 's competitors , referred to Alaska Dispatch 's coverage as inconsistent , and questioned the sustainability of its business model
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
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