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- ↑ "Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - About Us". Newsminer.com. Retrieved 2019-08-05.
- ↑ Zak, Annie (2015-12-25). "Purchase of News-Miner, Kodiak Daily Mirror the first major move for Fairbanks foundation". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
