Joshua Meals is a clinical nurse manager at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage. He oversees an acute care nursing floor with a staff of over 60 nurses. While they don’t treat patients with Covid, they still feel the ripple effects of how the pandemic disrupts the hospital. ATMI producer Ada Bjorkman spoke with Meals […]

Maps are a fundamental part of our daily lives. From GPS apps, to tracking the weather, to keeping up with the spread of Covid-19 around the world. So for this episode we’re going to talk about cartography and how it is deeply entwined with our lives and our history. Our guest is John Cloud, a […]

If you went to the movies this past holiday season, odds are you saw the movie we’re talking about today: Spider-Man: No Way Home. In its opening weekend it grossed two hundred and sixty million dollars. That’s the second highest debut in history. For this episode our ATMI film critics discuss this movie phenomenon starring […]

David Reamer is a historian whose focus in recent years has been unearthing Alaska’s complicated and curious past. He writes a weekly column for the Anchorage Daily News about the state’s history, covering a wide range of topics that include landmark restaurants, unsolved crimes, and Anchorage’s most famous horse.

For our first radio show of the new year we have interviews with two historians (one of Alaska, the other on cartography), a movie review, a music review, news, and original music from one of our youth producers, Ormund Alaois (you can listen to more of his music here). Hosts: Quinn White, Yule Zhang News: […]

Hosts: Tyler Felson, Daisy Carter

It’s the winter holidays, and for some people that means it’s time for Christmas movies. So we thought we’d have a Film Club holiday special and talk about one of the most divisive Christmas movies of them all: Die Hard.

When the Pfizer vaccine was approved for children ages 5 and older, Laura Norton-Cruz was relieved to be able to get her two young kids vaccinated.

For this episode, we will be talking about the new science fiction film, Dune. It is an adaptation of a novel by Frank Herbert that was originally published in 1965. The book has a rocky history in adaptations. There is a film version from 1985 and a miniseries from 2000, both widely regarded by fans […]

On October 28th, 2021 Anchorage Daily News reporter Morgan Krakow learned that an article she was credited as writing was circulating Twitter. Except she didn’t actually write it. It wasn’t a real story.  The tweet, which had thousands of likes and retweets, used an image that looked convincingly like the ADN website and had Krakow’s […]