Puget Sound Business Journal reporter heads to Alaska

Annie Zak, a health care reporter at the Puget Sound Business Journal, has resigned to accept a job in Alaska.

Zak will become a business and general assignment reporter at the Alaska Dispatch News in Anchorage and will start mid-December, writing about a wide range of business/economy topics.

“I imagine Alaska is probably one of the most interesting places to be a business reporter right now,” said Zak in an email to Talking Biz News. “You have shipping, commercial fishing, tourism, oil, and so many other industries, pretty much all touched by climate change. It’s yet to be decided exactly which topics I’ll tackle, but I can’t wait to get started.

At the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle, she also writes about  transportation and other news. Previously, she worked as a reporter for the Orange County Register, where she wrote about education, housing, local government and more.

Zak was also a researcher for the award-winning, data-driven Maytag Project, which sought to answer the question of what happened to a small Illinois town after its Maytag factory moved to Mexico.

She has a master’s degree from the Columbia Journalism School, where she was a fellow in the selective Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, and a bachelor’s degree from Knox College in Spanish and creative writing.