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Brian Patrick O’Donoghue is a well-traveled scribe. After earning undergraduate (UC Santa Cruz) and graduate degrees (NYU), he chased breaking news for east-coast weeklies in Baltimore, DC, and Manhattan before a want ad in the early 1980s lured him North to a career as a reporter for the Frontiersman in Wasilla. O’Donoghue embraced Alaska through numerous field assignments and career moves, notably covering 10 sessions of the Alaska State Legislature in Juneau for outlets ranging from the Fairbanks Daily-News-Miner and Anchorage Daily News to Alaska’s top TV stations. His books My Lead Dog was a Lesbian (Random House), and Honest Dogs (Epicenter Press) recount O’Donoghue’s struggles competing in the stormy 1991 Iditarod and 1998 Yukon Quest. In retrospect, those marathon adventures were straightforward compared to his second career, teaching journalism at UA. For nearly two decades, O’Donoghue taught students the finer arts of investigative reporting through a project examining the innocence claims of Marvin Roberts, Eugene Vent, George Frese, and Kevin Pease, four young men serving long prison sentences for the 1997 murder of a young teenager, John Hartman. O’Donoghue’s latest book, The Fairbanks Four: Murder, Injustice and the Birth of a Movement (Sourcebooks, April 2025), tells the story behind the Alaska Law Department’s shameless bid to conceal past errors. O’Donoghue and his wife of 30 years, Kate Ripley, have three adult children.

This lecture was in the BP Design Theater on the University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus on July 14, 2025 at 7 pm. The 2025 Tall Timbers is brought to you by UAF Summer Sessions with the support of Explore Fairbanks.