Shifting Perspectives
Story by Gwen Florio, photo by Sarah Chaput de Saintonge, illustration by Kristin Kirkland
Missoulian crime reporter Kate Haake is thankfully free on weekends from...
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...
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...
The Dude Provides
Story by Courtney Anderson
About 1,500 readers visit the Last Best News website daily. Thanks to a campaign to encourage Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges to...
Losing Home Advantage
Column by Allison Franz
Enjoy sitting down with your coffee each morning to find —and smirk at—slip-ups in your daily paper? Well, you’re about to smirk...
CORRECTION: Transients of the Digital Age
A version of the article “Transients of the Digital Age,” which was published in the print edition of MJR 2015 (pp. 19–27), contained several...
I, Journalist
Few narrative devices are as contentious in journalism as the first-person point of view. First-time storytellers in particular pine to use it, only to be...
ADA Anniversary: How it changed the media landscape
Story by Mark Boatman, photos by Gracie Ryan
It Would Be a stretch to say that, over the past 25 years, the Americans with Disabilities...
Letter from the Editors
Dear readers,
It’s one thing to conjure up a bright new world of journalism with mobile apps, daring interactive storytelling formats, innovative pay models, and endless...
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....
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...
Privacy Betrayed
By Albert Borgmann
There was a time when privacy promoted prosperity. Then, prosperity promoted privacy. Now privacy struggles with prosperity and is losing.
The Constitution’s Fourth...