Alaska Teen Media Institute

07/18/2025

Applications close next week! Join us?!

07/17/2025

Support ATMI by supporting public media! Contact our senators by Friday!

We know there is a lot to weigh in on right now when it comes to policies impacting Alaskan students but we hope you might also contact your senators today about funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Please let Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan know that Alaskans depend on their local public radio stations and they need this funding to serve their communities. ATMI youth are empowered and have a voice thanks to our local Alaska public radio stations! Cuts to these stations would directly impact ATMI youth.

Murkowski: (202)-224-6665
Sullivan: (202) 224-3004
Super fast online tool for writing senators: https://protectmypublicmedia.org/

The U.S. Senate has until Friday to vote on a measure that could eliminate more than $15 million in annual funding for Alaska’s 27 public broadcasting stations.

07/04/2025

Tune into our July edition of “In Other News” this Saturday, July 5 at 4pm on .3

The show will feature interviews with members of talking about the 2-day music festival they’re organizing, and with people from about yet another 2-day fest Rock The Hill happening this month.

07/02/2025

The mystery at the loon raft has been solved. Thanks to ATMI's Nathan Pobieglo for updating us on what has been happening at Connor's lake.

Here ATMI's Nathan Pobieglo gives updates on the Connors Lake loonlets -hatch dates and information about the previously missing egg. Plus, some new visitors...

07/01/2025

Apply now to be a part of our Documentary Film Project, a partnership with Northern Arapaho filmmaker Kendrick Whiteman.

Exploring values, art, culture, and history in the present moment.

Through guidance and workshops, participants will learn to develop and hone filmmaking and storytelling techniques to create short documentary films for screening in the community.

Apply here: https://alaskateenmedia.org/2025/06/16/documentary-film-project/

06/25/2025

An update from the Alaska Loon Cam!

Hi Loon Friends, Footage from yesterday shows we have a loonlet! But where is the other egg? And when did the first egg hatch!?! We'll keep digging through t...

06/18/2025

We are looking forward to this partnership with Vision Maker Media,the premier source of public media by and about Native Americans since 1976.

In partnership with Northern Arapaho filmmaker, Kendrick Whiteman, we'll be exploring values, art, culture, and history in the present moment. Kendrick is a former ATMI youth and graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Through guidance and workshops, participants will learn to develop and hone filmmaking and storytelling techniques to create short documentary films for broadcast and screening in the community. Participants will work together to select film topics.

Youth ages 13-21 are invited to join us! Apply at the link. The project begins in July!

A partnership with Northern Arapaho filmmaker Kendrick Whiteman. Exploring values, art, culture, and history in the present moment. Join us July – December, 2025!

06/18/2025

Getting ready for tonight’s Alaska Native Media Group meeting at Covenant House! Join us in person or online! ATMI will be presenting opportunities for youth!

Hey Alaska family and friends!

Alaska Native Media Group
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
6:00 p.m. - Pizza and Social Hour
6:30-8:00 p.m. - Meeting and Keynote
Presentation

Location:
Covenant House Conference Room
755 A Street, Anchorage, Alaska

Join Online via Zoom:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86442743618?pwd=QZnM8M9pEAbPDJvAqa6ApX9weimb1N.1

Meeting ID: 864 4274 3618

Keynote Speaker:
Mark Trahant, Chair, Indigenous Public Media and Former UAA Atwood Fellov Rethinking First Alaskans Magazine and ICT’s Challenges Going Forward

Program Highlights:
• Book Fair Project Update - Kristel Komakhuk
• Radio/Podcast Project Report - Gerad Godfrey
• Opportunities for Youth - Rosey Robards, Teen Media Institute
• Member Benefits and Upcoming Schedule - Jon Butzke

The Alaska Native Media Group works to:
• Promote Alaska Natives in media and journalism
• Ensure accurate, fair representation in news and storytelling
• Increase public understanding of Alaska Native culture, history, and Arctic issues
• Support collaboration and connection among Alaska Native media professionals

Alaska Native Media Group
Alaska Public Media
KNBA 90.3 FM

06/11/2025

Sign up for our new newsletter, Dear Charlie, all about local all-ages arts and culture events happening in the Anchorage area. Written by our very own ATMI yeti!

Art walks, concerts, festivals, parades and more! Each newsletter will also feature the work of a youth artist/s.

Read the first issue here: https://bit.ly/4kzWnhh

Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/33BW80f

06/05/2025

Our first post as managers of the Alaska Loon Cam! Many thanks to Nathan for keeping viewers updated on the happenings at Connors Lake!

We have two new arrivals at Connors Lake! One in the form of a loon egg first spotted on May 27th, the other is our new narrator! Nathan from Alaska Teen Med...

05/14/2025

🎥 Now available for streaming!

ATMI youth video producer Natalie Buttner gained a media internship on board the R/V Sikuliaq, embarking on a groundbreaking research project that was decades in the making!

Scientists and students extracted core samples from the bottom of the Bering Sea Floor. These tubes of sediment tell us about the last Ice Age when the Bering Land Bridge was an important migration corridor for plants, animals, and humans as they moved between Eurasia and North America.

This 2023 expedition was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Many thanks to the crew for including Natalie and ATMI in this work!

ATMI youth producer Natalie Buttner gained a media internship on board the RV Sikuliaq, where scientists extracted core samples from the bottom of the Bering Sea…

05/12/2025

Our May radio show is up on our website! Since May is mental health awareness month, we spoke interviewed the executive director of NAMI Anchorage, had four of our producers participate in the Ice Bucket Challenge, and played some tunes from the ATMI archive.

[From left: Annie Ferry, Nathan Pobieglo, Michael Hunter, Kaylee LaTocha, Wren Crockett, Jordan Kehl, Indigo Schlee, John Kendall, Cat Whited, Ormund Alaois, and Quinn White.] May is Mental Health …