Christopher Ross
Government mistrust and corruption.Bear attacks.International border disputes.Captured outlaws.Economic collapse.All the stuff of big city newspapers and deep-rooted journalism, right?Wrong.Step back into the world of the Dawson City Insider, the Klondike’s first weekly newspaper in over forty years.This true tale captures the eye popping personal accounts of a young journalist who carved out a publishing career in Canada’s most northwest outpost - the Yukon - at the dawn of digital publishing and the internet.Learn about the intense challenges a small team faced as they worked tirelessly with uncertain technology and a unique cast of characters on a shoe string budget to create a publishing empire at the end of the world in the 1990s, and how it all fell apart.COVER: A former Yukon government ferry worker stops to pose for the Dawson City Insider’s Know Your Neighbor column photo in 1998. He disappeared from the job mid-shift after several summers, laying down his sign and vest. He has not been seen in the Yukon since. 3
