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Some Republicans want to reverse GOP cuts to rural and tribal radio stations (Current, April 2026)

An Alaska station connects communities across hundreds of miles. Now it’s fighting to survive. (Poynter / Northwestern Medill Local News Initiative, October–November 2025)

Rural stations hit hardest by Trump’s ‘life or death’ public media cuts (The Hill, October 2025)

Lenora Ward, general manager at KOTZ radio station, listens to a musher interview while on-air at the station in Kotzebue on Wednesday, April 6, 2022.

Alaska fund raises $3.5M for public media as federal cuts begin (Anchorage Daily News, September 2025)

Report for America Steps In to Support Alaska Public Radio Amid Federal Funding Cuts (Report for America, August 2025)

The KOTZ radio station in Kotzebue photographed on April 6, 2022.

Kotzebue Public Broadcaster Warns of Looming Closure After Federal Funding Cut (Anchorage Daily News, July 2025)

Nellie Moore wears a purple atikluk, which she liked to make for her friends.

Nellie Moore leaves behind a huge footprint in Native journalism (Anchorage Daily News / Alaska Public Media / KTOO, February 2024)

TWiRT 620 — KOTZ Is in Kotzebue with Pierre Lonewolf (This Week in Radio Tech, November 2022)

Engineers, GMs go the distance to keep Alaska’s remote stations on the air (Current, May 2022)

KOTZ History

Nellie Moore selected as 2024 IJA-Medill Milestone Achievement Award recipient (Indigenous Journalists Association / Medill, 2024)

For Decades, Lonewolf Has Supported “The Voice of the Arctic” (Radio World, August 2022)

Inventor of Wi-Fi got insight from connecting Alaskans (Anchorage Daily News, 2016)

Connecting the communities of rural Alaska (Alaska Public Media [Talk of Alaska], November 2016)

On the air in Northwest Alaska: Remembering early days of KOTZ (Anchorage Daily News, 2014)

Alex and Meg standing in front of the new geodesic dome house they were building in Kotzebue in December 1975.

An Alaskan Connection (Last Frontier Magazine, undated, based on 1973 events)

"Alaska Communications History" (Alaska Public Media [Talk of Alaska], September 2011)