David Hulen

Notable work and positions

Anchorage Daily News - Former Editor; Interim Opinion Editor

Biography

David Hulen retired as editor of the Anchorage Daily News in March 2025 after a decade in that role and 39 years overall at the newspaper, and continued briefly as interim opinion editor. He joined the ADN in 1986 and worked as a reporter traveling throughout Alaska before serving successively as city editor, news editor, and managing editor, becoming editor in 2015. As a reporter, he was part of the team that produced the 1988 series 'A People in Peril,' which won the newspaper's second Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and in 2019 he was co-editor of 'Lawless,' a collaboration with ProPublica that won the ADN's third Pulitzer Prize. As editor, Hulen guided the newsroom through the paper's 2014-2017 bankruptcy and change of ownership under Alice Rogoff and then the Binkley Company, and helped lead its digital transition over two decades. He was succeeded as editor by Vicky Ho in April 2025.

Career highlights

• Editor, Anchorage Daily News 2015-2025 · Led the newsroom through bankruptcy, ownership change, and digital transformation.
• 'A People in Peril' 1988 · Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
• 'Lawless' 2019, with ProPublica · Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative series co-edited by Hulen.