Good ride - Anonymous employee Anchorage Press Employee Review

• For an alternative press, they compensate their freelancers well. • Your salary does increase depending on the quality of your articles and how long you stay there. This is rarer than you'd think. • You get free admittance into events you couldn't afford or wouldn't have heard of before. • You get to speak with some amazing and talented people. I had no idea how much Anchorage could offer until I freelanced with the Press. • Though it's pretty small, it's technically the second largest paper in Alaska, and a lot of people in Anchorage read it. This means major bragging rights.

Like many smaller papers, the quality of the issue varies greatly with the editor. The editor is also clearly overworked and I have no idea how Victoria Barber (probably the best editor I worked with) did it, but major kudos to her. When I left they started to have two editors, and I think this will reduce the unpredictability in the future.

I have written for the Anchorage PRESS for several years now. You have to be committed to getting stuff in on time and making sure you follow-up with your editors, but I have never had anything too terrible happen while working for them. The PRESS is a great source for Anchorage-ites who want to have something to read beyond the limited local paper.

Deadlines are sometimes tight, sometimes you may have individual disagreements with editors.