High School Newspaper Makes Comeback of the Year
When the Hawk Tawk is in session, a dozen or more students cram into their small newsroom on the second floor of Bozeman High....
An Expert Weighs in on How Home Movies Fuel Fire Science
Editor Intro: When the Reynolds Creek Fire burned through tourist-heavy Glacier National Park's Going-to-the-Sun Road last summer, a Missouri teen's footage shot from the...
A Meteorologist Speaks to Misconceptions of Fire, Weather and Climate
There's a common misconception that the severity of a fire season depends on the snowpack of the previous winter and spring. This is only...
Live-streams transform media coverage of police shootings
News coverage of violence against African-Americans during police operations might turn into a routine if not for the emergence of new tools keeping journalists...
Women editors sweep top positions at 4 metro papers in the American West
Over 20 years ago, Kathy Best, a young reporter in Washington, D.C., walked into a bar and saw something that surprised her — a...
Cannabis coverage lights up newsrooms in Colorado and Oregon
In 2013, two years before Oregon legalized the recreational use of marijuana, Portland’s Pulitzer Prize-winning alternative weekly newspaper, The Willamette Week, hired its first...
News Media Walk Tightrope between Online Free Speech and Protecting Advertisers
Nearly every story on the Billings Gazette website includes a bar at the bottom where readers can post comments.
At least two stories, however, lack...
7 days on a right-wing news diet: When a blue reads red
Story by Peregrine Frissell, art by Rene Sanchez
I grew up reading George Will in the Missoulian, one of 450 newspapers nationwide that syndicated his...
Lee Enterprises Tests New Model of State Politics Coverage in Montana
When Lee Enterprises pulled two of its most senior political reporters from Helena in May 2015, concern grew over the health of Montana’s political...
How Journalists Fan the Flames of Wildfire in the West
Firefighters often talk about the incomparable beauty of a forest burning at night. Fire fascinates. Its flicker in a campsite has always been mesmerizing....
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...
WSJ Reporter Aids Missoulian in Requesting University of Montana’s Information
By Clem Work
There were so many emails that the closest estimate is “thousands.”
When the president of the University of Montana, the vice president for...