Tom Hewitt

Tom Hewitt

Opinions editor

Tom Hewitt was opinions editor of the ADN from 2018 to 2024. He previously was editorial page editor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and news director of KTVF and KXDF in Fairbanks. He is currently special assistant to Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor Grier Hopkins.

Opinion: What you learn from reading 10,000 letters

After more than six years curating the ADN’s opinion content, Tom Hewitt looks back.

Tom Hewitt December 14, 2024

Editor’s note: The opinion editor is in

Do you have a letter to the editor or a commentary you’d like to deliver in person? A question or comment about local issues you’d like to share?

Tom Hewitt September 10, 2024

OPINION: The indifferent devastation of Forty Mile

If a UNESCO World Heritage Site is erased by a million tons of ice and there’s no one around to see it, what does it mean?

Tom Hewitt May 2, 2024
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Editor’s note: Poem day is back

April 1 will once again be Poem Day in the ADN’s letters space. If the muse strikes you, submit a poem to letters@adn.com.

Tom Hewitt March 8, 2024

Editor’s note: The return of Poem Day

April 1 will once again be Poem Day in the ADN’s letters space.

Tom Hewitt February 28, 2023

Send us your notes of gratitude

We want to recognize those acts of neighborliness, big and small, that make this a great place to live.

Tom Hewitt December 13, 2022

Q&A with Jimmy Eat World frontman Jim Adkins ahead of Saturday’s concert in Anchorage

The rock veteran has a few things to say about dealing with critics and living a life you’re happy with, whether or not you’re a rock star.

Tom Hewitt July 21, 2022

I used to curl with Alaska’s Olympians. Here’s what I’ll be thinking about as I watch them compete in Beijing.

How do you go from the Fairbanks Curling Club to the Beijing Olympics? The short answer: 20-plus years of hard, unrelenting work.

Tom Hewitt February 1, 2022

Rekindling hope for a better world, one song at a time

The Anchorage Concert Chorus is singing in person again. I missed it more than I knew.

Tom Hewitt December 14, 2021

Editor’s note: A day for poems

No fooling - April 1 will be Poem Day in the ADN letters space.

Tom Hewitt March 9, 2021
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