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...
Dairy Blackout
Story by Kelly Conde
A story about cow hooves was all Mychel Matthews was after. Reporting for the Times-News out of Twin Falls, Idaho, she...
How To Digitally Reinvent The College Paper
Column by Ryan Frank, flame photo illustration by Tiffany Garner and Sarah Chaput de Saintonge
With the newspaper business facing a continuous crisis, one of the best...
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...
Energy Beat Booms
Story by Jayme Dittmar, screenshot from video by Brian Gill
When Dan Boyce left his post as Montana Public Radio’s capitol bureau chief for Denver,...
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...
Scanner Shut-Off
Story by Jesse Flickinger
Reporters in Billings used to rely on their police scanner to alert them to crimes. These days, they have to be...
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...
About Face: The Other Side of the Story
Story by Alexander Deedy, photos by Elliott Natz
There were teepees as far as Kathy Weber could see in every direction. Riding next to John...
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...
Under the Needle
By Kevin Dupzyk
Roger DiBrito suffers from pain in his neck and shoulders and a severe fear of needles. He and his wife, Sharon, regularly...