Biz reporter Zak leaving Anchorage daily for Chicago

Annie Zak, a business reporter for the Anchorage Daily News, is leaving the paper and moving to Chicago.

Zak became a business reporter at the Daily News in Anchorage in 2014 to write about a wide range of business/economy topics.

She previously worked at the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle, writing 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.