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...
Looking In From Afar
Katie J.M. Baker, a staff writer for Jezebel.com (tagline: Celebrity, sex, fashion for women), traveled to Missoula to examine what some were calling a...
Missoula Sexual Assaults Spur Controversial Media Coverage
By Ashley Nerbovig
In a side room of the Missoula County Courthouse, Gwen Florio snacked on apples and scrolled through her news feed. A cops-and-courts...
Graphic: Montana’s gun ownership statistics
By Callan Berry and James Rolph
More Precious Than Oil
By Tom Kuglin
The North Fork of the Flathead River Transboundary region — a 9,000 square mile, largely undeveloped area on the western rim of...
Made in Montana: Biomimicry and The Gadget Gap
Montana Inspires Design
By Eric Oravsky
Montana’s Whitebark pine trees look as if they were beaten down by the unforgiving conditions of the mountain environment they live in....
Year in Review: Sherry Arnold and Bakken Boom
North Dakota’s McDonald’s jobs start at $11 per hour
By Jackson Bolstad
In our last issue, “Boom: Reporting on natural resources in Montana,” we debunked the...
Defending High School Journalists’ First Amendment Rights
By Iris Olson
In three years of working on a high school paper, I have seen enough controversy over stories to make the average student...
Hungry Horse News Strives to Keep Community Close
By Megan Petersen
In 1965, Mel Ruder won a Pulitzer Prize for his almost-solo coverage of a 500-year flood in the small town of Columbia...
Local Food, Local People: Q&A with Emily Wendler
By Megan Petersen, photos by Mandy Tippett
Montana graduate student Emily Wendler spent four weeks with a family struggling to eat all local, only to...
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...
Behind the Times
By Dustin Nelson
The fact that gay couples can now file federal taxes jointly is not enough to get Ray Davis and Jason Templin to...