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Followers
1.1K
Account age
3 yrs

📊 Post engagement

7
Avg engagement / post
0.7%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: The newsroom staff of the Anchorage Daily News, the largest news · 29 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
4.4 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
6.5×
Follows 164 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
🔥 Top post The newsroom staff of the Anchorage Daily News, the largest newspaper in Alaska, are seeking to unionize. Management has asked for an NLRB election first, and the prospective union is now asking supporters to sign a petition: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSduEmmiTdiTq… ★ 29
With Georgia planning a partial hand count of its November election, I asked what a similar count would look like here in Alaska: https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/09/23/what-would-a-statewide-hand-count-election-look-like-in-alaska/ #akleg #A… ★ 4 Good morning from America’s farthest-north legislative seat, a rare rural district that votes Democratic. That’s changing, in large part because of national Dems’ opposition to oil drilling: https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/09/19/arctic-alask… ★ 5 Alaska's first ranked choice presidential election will allow voters to rank up to eight options: https://alaskabeacon.com/briefs/alaskas-presidential-election-allows-voters-to-rank-up-to-eight-candidates/ #akleg #Alaska ★ 3 The US Army has deployed airborne infantry and missiles to an Alaska military base close to Russia: https://alaskabeacon.com/briefs/in-unusual-move-u-s-army-sends-missiles-and-airborne-infantry-to-alaska-base-near-russia/ #akleg #Alaska ★ 9 WOLVERINES! https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/09/12/study-gives-updated-estimate-for-wolverine-population-on-alaskas-north-slope/ #akleg #Alaska ★ 2 In Alaska's U.S. House race, Republican candidate Nick Begich says he supports a nationwide abortion limit. Democratic candidate Mary Peltola does not. The Alaskan Independence Party candidate calls abortion "child murder" but opposes a ba… ★ 5 A judge in Alaska has thrown out an attempt by the Alaska Democratic Party to remove an imprisoned out of state Democrat from Alaska’s US house ballot: https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/09/11/anchorage-judge-rules-that-imprisoned-democrat-will… There aren't many state House districts in Alaska that are more balanced between Republican-leaning voters and Democratic-leaning ones, so it's appropriate that a district in downtown Fairbanks could also decide control of the state House:… ★ 1 We should find out today whether a Democrat imprisoned in New York state will appear on Alaska's U.S. House ballot for the November general election: https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/09/09/judge-to-rule-by-tuesday-whether-jailed-democrat-will… ★ 7 Folks aren't coming "North to Alaska" like they used to, so a two-day panel at the University of Alaska Anchorage last week tried to brainstorm solutions: https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/09/09/with-alaska-outmigration-continuing-community-me… ★ 9 Here’s how a meeting at a brewery helped put a convicted felon on Alaska’s U.S. House ballot: https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/09/03/a-meeting-at-an-eagle-river-brewery-helped-put-a-convicted-felon-on-alaskas-u-s-house-ballot/ #Alaska #akleg

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
journa.host
A journalists server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 7 views per post.
📤Posts about 4.4× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

66/100 Good
  • Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~0.7% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
89%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Alaska statehouse reporter for the Alaska Beacon, formerly with the Anchorage Daily News, Juneau Empire, Kodiak Mirror and Fairbanks Daily News Miner.

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