Mike Doogan

{{Distinguish|Mike Duggan}}{{short description|American politician}}

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| name=Mike Doogan

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| state_house=Alaska

| state=Alaska

| district=25th

| term_start=January 15, 2007

| predecessor=Eric Croft

| succeeded=Incumbent

| party=Democratic

| birth_date={{birth date and age|1948|6|7}}

| birth_place=Fairbanks, Alaska

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| alma_mater=University of San Francisco, University of Alaska

| profession=journalist, writer

| residence=Anchorage, Alaska

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Mike Doogan is a Democratic member of the Alaska House of Representatives, representing the 25th District since 2006.

He is also the author of the Nik Kane Alaska mystery series, which includes Lost Angel, Capitol Offense, and Skeleton Lake, as well as several nonfiction books about Alaska life.

Doogan was an editor of the Anchorage Daily News from 1985 to 1990, and a columnist for that paper from 1990 to 2004. From 2004 to 2006, he was the Press Secretary, for the Alaska Legislature Democrats. From 2006 to 2012, he was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives.{{cite web |title=Mike Doogan's Biography |url=https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/68301/mike-doogan |website=Vote Smart |access-date=16 December 2020}}

In March 2009, Doogan exposed the identity of the previously anonymous blogger behind The Mudflats, a blog critical of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Doogan's decision to reveal the blogger's identity received widespread criticism in the blogosphere.

{{Citation

| title = Influential Nobodies

| newspaper = Staebrook News

| date = April 4, 2009

| url = http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/editorial/04/04/influential-nobodies/ }}

{{Citation

| title = In Exposing the Identity of Mudflats Blogger Jeanne Devon, Rep. Mike Doogan Exposes Himself.

| work = The Mudflats

| date = March 27, 2009

| url = http://www.themudflats.net/2009/03/27/in-exposing-the-identity-of-mudflats-rep-mike-doogan-exposes-himself/ }}