Hilde den Hellige

Introduction Requirement

Hello, My name is Isabel and my Username on here is Hilde den Hellige. I am taking this course because I am minoring in film. Hilde den Hellige (talk) 18:38, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Article Evaluation

The Article Anchorage International Film Festival on Wikipedia is marked as a stub mostly, I believe, because it is incomplete. The leading summary at the beginning of the Article is very short and lacks flow when read. In a mere six lines of summary, twice it mentions that the festival is held annually. Additionally, the article appears to have very few contributors. The summary also includes one prominent local venue where the event is held but fails to discuss the other prominent venues of the area where there are screenings. As someone who has attended the festival many times, I know that a prominent aspect of it is that it takes viewers all around the city so that Anchorage, along with the films are being promoted at the same time. The article does have a history section but it is only two sentences and lacks information about its reception by the local public and by filmmakers and producers. The article also includes a section for the awards given at the festival but no previous winners are mentioned. This section should likely also include a paragraph on the Oscar and other award-winning films that have been a part of the festival before their widespread success. Another problem with this article is that, for the most part, the information comes from the AIFF website which does not demonstrate a third party or unbiased source. A final problem with the article is that it is out of date. It still is giving information about the upcoming festival of 2017 which ended months ago. My recommendation for this article is that it includes more writers and more sources. I would look at local news publications and film festival reviews to find more information for the article. I would also include a table of past winners and films that were awarded along with deleting all out of date information. Hilde den Hellige (talk) 00:40, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

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The Plan

In the The Nome Nugget stub page. I plan to add to the lead, add a section on the history of the paper and another section on its reach to the northwest Alaska area. I would also like to add a brief section on its current state of no ownership since its owner died two years ago. The paper is currently still in the hands of the estate which is highly unusual.

Possible Sources

Dunham, Mike. "Nancy McGuire, Publisher of the Nome Nugget for 34 Years, Dead at 72." Alaska Dispatch News, 2016. Riordan, Tom. Nancy McGuire, the Nome Nugget, Nome, Alaska. vol. 130, Duncan McIntosh Company, Inc, New York, 1997. Jones, Preston, 1966. Empire's Edge: American Society in Nome, Alaska, 1898-1934. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, 2007. Jones, Preston. Empire's Edge : American Society in Nome, Alaska, 1898-1934. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, 2014. https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=STNO&searchType=1&recCount=25&searchArg=0745-9106

First Draft

Lead

The Nome Nugget is a weekly newspaper published on Thursdays in Nome, Alaska and serves the entire Northwest region of Alaska, additionally, it is printed in Anchorage, Alaska for newstands and airports. It was awarded best weekly newspaper in all of Alaska in 2012 by the Alaska Press Club. It is an independent newspaper which is currently owned by the Nugget Publishing Corp. which itself is owned by the Estate of Nancy L. McGuire who was the publisher and editor of the Nome Nugget before her death on November 17, 2016. The Nome Nugget is Alaska’s oldest newspaper.

Origins of the Nome Nugget

While the Nome Nugget may be accepted as the oldest newspaper in Alaska, exactly how old it is has been in dispute. While the newspaper officially claims that it was established in 1897, the Library of Congress sites it as being established in 1900, and other Alaska based organizations claim it is from 1938.

According to the Alaska State Library the first newspaper in Nome was the Nome News, established in 1899, In 1900 the name was changed the Nome Daily News and then back to the Nome News by 1904. In 1903, the publishing company at the time, Nome News Pub. Co., produced a supplemental newspaper entitles the Hell Whooper. It only ran for one issue on April 17. The name changed again in 1906 to the Nome Daily Nugget under a similarly named but different owner, Nome Pub. Co. In 1918 it was changed to the Nome Tri-Weekly Nugget, in 1919 it was changed to the Nome Nugget, and in 1934 back to the Nome Daily Nugget. In 1938 the paper’s name changed for the final time back to the Nome Nugget. In 1982 current editor Nancy McGuire purchased the Nome Nugget from Nome Pub. Co. and named her company the Nugget Publishing Corporation. Since McGuire’s death in 2016 the Nugget Publishing Corporation has been handled by her estate. Currently, parties are negotiating for the purchasing of the business.

Distribution

The Nome Nugget produces approximately 6,000 papers per issue and reaches a total of 24,000 readers just from the paper copies. Additionally, the Nome Nugget is delivered to every state in the United States via subscriptions. The Nome Nugget is the primary news source for news in the city of Nome and in the 15 surrounding communities in the Northwest region of Alaska. This includes Barrow, Point Hope, Kotzebue, and the NANA region. According to the newspaper, “Nome is the logistical and economical hub for the surrounding 15 Bering Strait and Norton Sound communities that are off the road system.” It is the only news outlet with reach to nearly every village in the region. They include Little Diomede, Shishmaref, Wales, Brevig Mission, Teller, Solomon, Council, White Mountain, Golovin, Elim, Koyuk, Shaktoolik, Unalakleet, St. Michaels, and Stebbins.

An online version of the newspaper can be found at nomenugget.net where it is read by over 4,000 online users.