About Stephen Nowers

NOWERS, STEPHEN is a staff photographer with the Anchorage Daily News, a 70,000-circulation newspaper in Alaska. For the past year his primary responsibility has been developing multimedia content for adn.com, the Daily News’ web site. He grew up in the Pacific Northwest and graduated with degrees in history and english from the University of Washington. He’s been at the Daily News since 1996. In addition to his newspaper work, he teaches publication design at the University of Alaska Anchorage and is a lieutenant with the Central Mat-Su Fire Department in Wasilla.

Writing

Content on this site written by Stephen Nowers (includes contributory writing):

  • Projects

    • Cosmic Virtuoso
    • Most people would be satisfied to be a renowned professor of astrophysics at UC Berkeley ... But for Dr. Chung-Pei Ma, a passion for music is as much a part ...

  • Forum Posts

    • starter kit
    • I sent my M-Audio out with a reporter and the battery life issue drove her crazy. I think I've just adapted to it. The reporters are mostly using various Olympus recorders. Easy to use but I'm not too impressed with the sound quality -- they sound tinny to my ear ...
    • Workshop manuals
    • I'd be very interested in a google maps tutorial, including, or at least introducing xml. There's a lot of stuff online but the help docs I've found are fragmented and difficult to adapt for a newsroom environment (at least for me).
    • starter kit
    • At the Anchorage Daily News, we've issued M-Audio 24/96s to the photo staff. The recorder works great, but it has a very short battery life. We found a work-around with the Energizer "Energi to go" mini-USB cell phone battery charger (about $20, takes AA batteries). There are a few different ...