‘Alaska Daily’ Has Its Heart In The Right Place

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ory Channel, not ABC and Hulu, had it arrived in 2032 instead of last week. Some 2500 newspapers have died since 2005, and the series makes clear why that apocalypse matters: Journalists will tell stories nobody else will.Hilary Swank stars as an ace reporter who pushes her Anchorage newspaper to dig deeper into the disappearance of an Indigenous woman that the police and politicians are downplaying. The overearnest drama has none of the gallows humor that

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abounds U.S. newsrooms. And Swank has panic attacks you can read as having an anti-feminist subtext (women can’t handle pressure — see what happens when they try to outshine men).But Alaska Daily has heart in the right place on two urgent issues in the U.S.: crimes against its Indigenous people and the collapse of its newspapers. This show should be required viewing for anyone who doesn’t think those crises demand more attention.</article></body>

A scrappy newspaper investigates the disappearance of an Indigenous woman the police and pols ignore

Hilary Swank, left, and Grace Dove in ‘Alaska Daily’ / Credit: ABC

Alaska Daily might have had to run on the History Channel, not ABC and Hulu, had it arrived in 2032 instead of last week. Some 2500 newspapers have died since 2005, and the series makes clear why that apocalypse matters: Journalists will tell stories nobody else will.

Hilary Swank stars as an ace reporter who pushes her Anchorage newspaper to dig deeper into the disappearance of an Indigenous woman that the police and politicians are downplaying. The overearnest drama has none of the gallows humor that abounds U.S. newsrooms. And Swank has panic attacks you can read as having an anti-feminist subtext (women can’t handle pressure — see what happens when they try to outshine men).

But Alaska Daily has heart in the right place on two urgent issues in the U.S.: crimes against its Indigenous people and the collapse of its newspapers. This show should be required viewing for anyone who doesn’t think those crises demand more attention.