Malia Barto Joins Blueprint Alaska as Junior Account Executive
Anchorage-based communications firm Blueprint Alaska hired Malia Barto as junior account executive. In that role, she works in various capacities, specializing in copy writing and editing, social media content, and research.
Barto earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and public communications from UAA, with a concentration in digital media and a minor in justice. Barto brings experience as a former copyeditor at KTVA 11 News and a digital reporter and producer at Alaska’s News Source, KTUU/KYES. Before joining Blueprint Alaska, she returned home to Anchorage from Juneau, where she worked as the deputy press secretary in the communications office for the Alaska State Legislature’s Senate Majority.
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New Oil on the North Slope
August 2026
In mid-May it was 19°F and windy at the Aurora Hotel in Deadhorse. As I stood in the parking lot surveying the surroundings, I chatted with a gentleman from Texas who works for Nabors Alaska Drilling and was in town as part of a crew tasked with getting a previously inactive drill rig up and running. He said that, according to his supervisor, spring is the windy season on the North Slope. The gusts were bracing, numbing the fingers holding my camera, but most of my attention was focused on what I could capture through the lens: work trucks, shipping containers, buildings obscured by snow whipped up by the wind.