Rod Boyce
Managing Editor
Call Rod at 907-459-7585.
Managing editor Rod Boyce, 47, has lived in Fairbanks since coming to the Daily News-Miner in 1994 and has been in Alaska since 1991. He was raised in Southern California but graduated from Humboldt State University in Northern California. He has been a journalist since the mid-1980s, first as a reporter at small newspapers in Southern California and in the Sierra Nevada foothills and then later at The Sacramento Union, where he was a reporter before becoming assistant city editor.
He left the Union in 1991 to work at The Anchorage Times as an assistant city editor. After the Times folded in 1992, he went to work for a chain of rural Alaska newspapers, a job that included doing temporary editing duty in newspapers offices in Kotzebue and Bethel. He worked as city editor for most of his time at the Daily News-Miner before becoming managing editor in August 2008.
He and his wife have a 4-year-old daughter, one cat and a kennel of about two dozen recreational and racing sled dogs. They live in Two Rivers, in what they affectionately refer to as the News-Miner's "Two Rivers Bureau."
Recent Stories
- An apology to Sarah Palin
- Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009
- The Daily News-Miner has had its agreements and disagreements with now-former Gov. Sarah Palin at various points during her time serving the state of Alaska. We have tried to maintain respect for the office of governor and to be generally civil when discussing Mrs. Palin, her policies and the actions she took while serving as governor.
- Federal court upholds ruling on Beaufort Sea oil leases
- Friday, Aug. 28, 2009
- FAIRBANKS -- A federal appeals court has ruled that Bush administration officials were right not to demand a new environmental review before selling Beaufort Sea oil leases in 2007.
- Changes coming to News-Miner
- Tuesday, June 23, 2009
- Readers of the Daily News-Miner might notice a small change in the paper on Wednesday. Or maybe they won’t.
- Comics change today
- Monday, April 13, 2009
- Comics page fans, here’s some news for you:
“For Better or For Worse” is back. Well, it should be back today if all has gone well at the place that assembles the Daily News-Miner’s comics pages. - Readers provide input on funnies
- Sunday, March 29, 2009
- I’ve received lots of comments about comics. Ask any editor across the country what single item in the paper will bring loads of feedback from readers, and the funnies are likely at or somewhere near the top of the list.
- A new but familiar correspondent
- D.C. beat returns to the News-Miner
- Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009
- I’m a couple weeks late in writing this, but many readers probably have noticed by now that there’s a new name atop Daily News-Miner stories coming out of Washington, D.C.
Truth be told, it’s not really a new name.
Betty Mills, of the Griffin-Larrabee News Bureau, has returned to reporting on Alaska issues for the News-Miner following the departure late last year of longtime News-Miner reporter and correspondent R.A. Dillon, who took a job working for Sen. Lisa Murkowski. - Asphalt shortage delays road repairs nationwide
- Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008
- SEATTLE -- Expect a bumpier drive. An asphalt shortage is delaying road maintenance projects in communities nationwide, including Alaska. Asphalt is becoming scarce as U.S. refiners overhaul their equipment to maximize output of highly profitable fuels such as diesel and gasoline, using inexpensive - and hard to process - crude oil.
- Palin had Super Tuesday questions about McCain's views on resource development
- Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008
- FAIRBANKS -- Gov. Sarah Palin had less-than robust support for Sen. John McCain in his presidential quest earlier this year in the run up to the Alaska Republican Party’s presidential preference balloting.
- President Bush to visit Eielson on Monday
- Friday, Aug. 1, 2008
- FAIRBANKS -- President Bush will visit the Fairbanks area on Monday, according to an announcement issued today by the White House.
- The government's loose leash
- Federal earmarks help support Alaska programs. Too often, how that money is used goes unchecked
- Wednesday, March 28, 2007
- The federal indictment against Jim and Chris Hayes, for all its detail, is silent on the government's own role in what it alleges transpired between the Hayeses, their church and the nonprofit center in which they are so central.
