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Alek Haak-Frost

Alek Haak-Frost is the executive editor, publisher, and founder of Watershed Voice, and a graduate of Central Michigan University. Prior to establishing WSV in 2020, he wrote for a number of publications including The Midland Daily News and The Morning Sun, and served as managing editor of the Three Rivers Commercial-News for the better part of three years.

In 2022, Haak-Frost won the Public Service Award and Outstanding Coverage Award at the LION Local Journalism Awards in Austin, Texas. He was a finalist for the LION Public Service Award again in 2023.

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Alek's Latest Articles

Keep Your Voice Down: Artist Showcase lineup drop

Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears Jr. reveal the lineup for the fifth annual Watershed Voice Artist Showcase, which will take place later this month at The Huss Project in Three Rivers. The duo also explores the role of AI in content creation and journalism, what is lost in the over reliance of such technology, and what society stands to gain by re-embracing human creativity and connection.

Keep Your Voice Down: Three Rivers Pride Preview

Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears Jr. are joined by Three Rivers Pride Board Secretary Lexi Jacobs, President Chuck Lepinski, and Volunteer Coordinator Sarah Apwisch to preview the third annual Three Rivers Pride Festival.

Constantine’s Harvey House to open Wednesday with ‘open hearts and steady hands’ following Saturday shooting

Two gunshot victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries, authorities say, while a third was listed in critical condition. A fourth individual broke a leg after jumping from a second-story deck in an attempt to escape the gunfire.

Help us celebrate five years of Watershed Voice this month

Please consider starting a monthly donation of $5 or more as we celebrate our fifth anniversary. And if you get a chance, join our staff and board of directors at Useless Creatures this Saturday, April 5 from 4-6 p.m. in downtown Three Rivers to commemorate this important milestone.

Severe storm causes power outages, property damage in St. Joseph County

A National Weather Service damage assessment on Monday confirmed that the storm was not a tornado but rather a “straight-line wind” event.

Keep Your Voice Down: Watershed Voice — An oral history

In honor of the news organization's upcoming five-year anniversary, Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears Jr. are joined by Deborah Haak-Frost to provide an oral history of Watershed Voice's inception and the months and years that followed. Join us as we recall the trying and triumphant times of your favorite award-winning nonprofit news magazine.

Keep Your Voice Down: Lucky Fultz

Three Rivers singer-songwriter Lucky Fultz details his musical influences and methodology, Tupac gets praise, Drake gets all the smoke, and male vulnerability is celebrated.

Keep Your Voice Down: Najifa Farhat

Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears, Jr. were joined by Watershed Voice Staff Reporter Najifa Farhat to discuss her educational and professional background, the experiences in Bangladesh that propelled her toward a career in journalism, family dynamics, and her interest in climate vulnerabilities.

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Watershed Voice to begin new publishing schedule this week

In recognition of our capacity as a staff and our desire to provide more in-depth, originally reported stories, Watershed Voice will now publish on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of each week.

Watershed Voice will not publish for three weeks

Watershed Voice will not publish for the next three weeks to give its staff a much needed and much deserved break.

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