Print article Longtime Alaska journalist Rosemary Shinohara died of complications from the coronavirus on Dec. 13 in Anchorage. She was 73. Born in Cordova, Shinohara later moved to Anchorage with her family. She went on to study journalism at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, her daughter Michi Shinohara said. There, she met Vincent Shinohara, an exchange student from Japan. They later married. After a stop in the Midwest, the couple moved back to Anchorage and Shinohara embarked on a career that spanned more than 40 years as a reporter and editor documenting Alaska, mostly at the Anchorage Daily News. Her first byline in the newspaper, in 1971: “Girl’s State to Meet in College, Glennallen.”