Kyle Hopkins

Investigative Reporter

I am an investigative reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. Previously, I was digital director/managing editor for KTUU-Channel 2 in Anchoragem and before that was a general assignment and rural affairs reporter for the Alaska Dispatch/Anchorage Daily News. As a blogger and writer for the Daily News since 2004, I covered Alaska Native villages, health and social issues and government. In 2013-14, spent a year with photojournalist Marc Lester reporting on the impact and legacy of alcohol abuse in Alaska. That coverage, including an intensive focus on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, can be found at adn.com/alcohol.  I was a Center for Health Journalism National Fellow in 2014 and used documentary-style video and data reporting to tell the story of homelessness in Alaska's largest cities for KTUU..  And I am the lead reporter on an ongoing investigative project, in partnership with ProPublica, for a series that revealed a third of Alaska’s villages had no police protection, took authorities to task for decades of neglect, and spurred an influx of money and legislative changes. The project won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.  A graduate of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, I live in Anchorage with my wife Rebecca and our daughters Alice and Poppy.

On Twitter: @adn_kylehopkins

Articles

'I want to die in my sleep as an old woman'

Jodi Mahle, who lives on the streets of Anchorage, Alaska, woke up one afternoon in November to find her boyfriend dead beside her. Other homeless watched as she pressed on his chest, she said, frantic to jumpstart his pulse outside a Midtown liquor store....