Craig Medred

As a one-time newspaper reporter, Craig Medred has covered everything from the luxury cruiseship Prinsendam in the Gulf of Alaska to the disappearance of Japanese national hero Naomi Uemera on the slopes of Mt. McKinley to the bogus "rescue" of a pair of young, foolish whales trapped by ice near Point Barrow. Along the way, it has been his luck to sail a small boat across the Gulf, climb on the glaciers of North America's tallest peak, and spend a lot of time shivering in the cold dark. He prefers any of those things to reporting on the manueverings in Alaska's halls of power where the 49th state's resources are often divvied up between the powerful and the near powerless. In Alaska, however, he has discovered that politics is something that cannot be avoided, even by those who live in cabins in the woods, and thus he has often found himself embroiled in stories of a political nature. In journalism as in life, he often approaches things with a directness prone to win him a few friends and plenty of enemies.