Tim Bradner is serving as the Atwood Chair of Journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage during the 2017-2018 school year. 

Bradner has worked in Alaska journalism since 1965, interrupted only by a period working with a major oil company and graduate school. He is copublisher of the Alaska Legislative Digest and Alaska Economic Report, and editor of Alaska Inc. magazine. 

He is a regular contributor to the Alaska Dispatch News, Platts Oilgram, a McGraw Hill energy publication, and also writes for the Anchorage Press, Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Alaska Journal of Commerce and Petroleum News. 

Bradner will teach an introductory reporting and writing course and an upper-division course in Public Affairs Journalism, where he will lead students in coverage of fiscal and state issues.

“I’m eager to engage with students about covering financial matters that affect them directly,” Bradner said. “Alaskans face complex decisions that will reshape state government and our economy, and I want to help beginning journalists understand these issues so they can explain them to the public.”

Bradner has worked in Alaska media for decades. He started in public affairs for the University of Alaska Fairbanks, then worked as a reporter at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and the Tundra Times, an Alaska Native weekly newspaper.

He also worked for BP Alaska in public affairs and government relations. He was a longtime staff writer and contributor to the Alaska Journal of Commerce, covering energy and state government.