Over the past 48 years in Alaska, Larry Persily has owned weekly newspapers in Wrangell, Juneau and Skagway, and worked as a reporter or editor at The Anchorage Times, Anchorage Daily News, Associated Press, Juneau Empire and Petroleum News. He served as the visiting Atwood Chair in Journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage 2019-2020 and has mentored reporters from small newsrooms in an ongoing training program to cover the Legislature.