Through a generous donation to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Helen Snedden endowed a chair of journalism in her husband's name. Charles Willis "Bill" Snedden knew a good story when he saw one and built his life and the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner around telling them. He came to Fairbanks in 1948 to evaluate the News-Miner for then-owner Cap Lathrop. Snedden liked what he saw about the potential of the newspaper and this community. Two years later, he bought the Interior daily.

Bill Snedden died in 1989, but his legacy continues six decades and thousands of editions of the News-Miner later.

Several years ago, the late publisher's wife, Helen Snedden, reflected on how her husband would take young reporters and editors and show them the value of a well-told story, or take them to task for a poorly written one. She resolved to continue Bill's legacy as an educator and set up the Snedden Endowed Chair of Journalism at UAF.

The roster of past Snedden Chairs includes some of the most accomplished reporters in the country including 11 Pulitzer Prize winning journalists. It is the greatest gift given to this department and an even better opportunity for students.

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Bradley K. Martin has spent most of his career as an Asia correspondent and bureau chief for news organizations that include Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, The Baltimore Sun and Asia Times. After spending his formative years in Marietta, Georgia, he majored in history at Princeton University and attended Emory University Law School. Twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his daily reporting, he received the Asia Pacific Special Book Prize for Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty. He has been a visiting professor of journalism at Ohio University and Louisiana State University, a Fulbright fellow in Japan and Korea, a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford and journalist in residence at the East-West Center in Honolulu and Dartmouth College. Currently based in Nagano, Japan, and Bangkok, Thailand, he analyzes developments in North Korea for Global Post.