The Sitka Sentinel is an independent, family-owned newspaper published on non-holiday weekdays in Sitka, Alaska, United States. It was founded by Harold Veatch in 1939. Thad and Sandy Poulson took over the paper in 1969. The paper covers local, regional, national and international news, and includes a sports page and an end-of-week arts highlight. The paper features a news department of two reporters.