Tokyo Olympics: How to fix sexism in sports coverage
Anticipation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games is already mounting, and with it viewers’ expectations of media coverage. Rio reportage left something to be...
Griz beat Cats in Montana headline analysis
A year’s worth of headlines allows a glimpse into the common universe of newspapers from across Montana. We analyzed 2,083 titles that ran in...
Video journalist Thomas Nybo navigates advocacy and objectivity in telling stories of refugee children
Few video journalists have shown the humanity of refugee children as poignantly as Thomas Nybo. A graduate of the University of Montana School of...
Inside the ‘Lugenpresse:’ German media confront charges of lying by omission
On the third floor of a grand office building in central Berlin, Thomas Fuhrmann’s television news team discussed the fallout of an unusual case...
Private school kids in Montana reinvent television news
When you leave it up to kids to decide what to study, they might just choose to start their own television news show. On...
Independent news sites challenge Lee paper supremacy
He's one of those guys who jump in the water without checking the temperature.
So the splashdown was a shock when Martin Kidston quit his regular-paycheck...
Audience engagement for journalists: How to slay social media
Social media is a must-do for journalists — it’s where news breaks and conversation happens. But just because you post on Facebook as a...
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...
Election puts campus sex column back in the news
Defenders of student press freedom were outraged when, in 2009, then-University of Montana assistant professor Kristen Juras tried to shut down a sex column...
State polls: Rural media face rising cost of political surveys
For years pundits have gone on about the death of polling, from a decline in response rates to candidates rejecting the accuracy of polls....
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...
Big Brother’s Watching
Interview by Laura Wilson, camera and editing by Hunter D'Antuono, animation by Joshua James
Continuing our video series on privacy issues, we asked people in...