Saturday, February 1, 2025

50th Anniversary of Vietnam: Through a Veteran’s Lens

Story by Tera Dittbrenner, photos by Bernie Azure. Bernie Azure an Assiniboine from Montana, volunteered for Vietnam when he was 19 years old. He returned...

Smartphones Trump Free Rural TV

Story by Corin Cates-Carney, photo illustration by Kristin Kirkland Smartphone Reception in Montana is slated to improve, but in exchange, some people in small rural...

Ron’s Reasons: An Illustrated Web Critique

Commentary by Ron Reason When the Great Falls Tribune redesigned its website, it sought to offer more choice to more readers and gain more advertisers....

Three On a Match: Q&A with Andy Smetanka

Interview by Rob Truax, photos by Louise Johns. It’s been three years since Missoula animator Andy Smetanka started on his most ambitious project to date,...

Happy Media

Story by Kimball Bennion Greg Dunn's Facebook event page The Gratitude Journal still attracts daily posts from tens of thousands of followers even after it...

The Deflated Journalist

Column by Jason Kintzler, illustration by Tiffany Garner Right now in a newsroom somewhere, panic has set in. Mounting financial pressure from a newspaper publisher has...

Source Check: How Montana Television Stations Identify Experts on The Web

Story by Conrad Scheid, photos by Sarah Chaput de Saintonge Even in an era when finding information is often as simple as a Google search,...

Under a Closer Scope

Story by Jacob Baynham, photos by Bess Brownlee On the main street of Stevensville, shouldered between an antique shop and a fabric store, stands a...

Boiling Point

Story and photos by Kate Siberell Studying weather and climate changeis like watching a pot of water on the stove. Both climate scientists and meteorologists...

Transients of the Digital Age

Story by Bjorn Bergeson, photos by Elliott Natz. Sanjay Talwani packs a video camera and a tripod into the back of his company SUV, pulls out...

Standing Rock: Native journalists torn between passion and neutrality

Story by Jason Begay, photos by Olivia Vanni See more of MJR's Standing Rock Coverage with this interactive web documentary. Even if it weren’t for that...

Shooting Solo

Story by Michael Beall, photos by Sarah Chaput de Saintonge It took one editors’ meeting on the first day of Austin Green’s internship to make...