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We’ve thought we were pretty clever about finding new uses for Twitter, here in the Missoulian newsroom. But we will never be as clever – or as heroic – as the Japanese journalist who tricked his captors in Afghanistan and used Twitter to let the outside world know he was alive. Here’s the Associated Press story on [...] Advertisement
One night a few years back, after falling asleep while watching TV, I woke to see one of my daughter’s childhood friends reading the news on MontanaPBS. It took a few minutes to wake up enough to realize that professional newscaster was indeed the same little girl who I once put in timeout when she shoved [...] The Missoulian began a new yearlong series today, with the publication of reporter Jamie Kelly’s first “Hall Passages” story. Each week on a rotating basis, Jamie will visit a private or public school in the Missoula Valley to see what’s new in the halls of our learning institutions. He’ll spend time in the school, focusing on [...] This week, our newsroom bids farewell to a treasured longtime reporter, Michael Jamison, who for 15 years has covered Glacier National Park, Flathead and Lincoln counties, and everything in-between for the Missoulian. Michael has accepted a position with the National Parks Conservation Association, a nonprofit whose mission it is to protect and enhance America’s national parks. He [...] The Associated Press issued an excellent new policy this past week that I thought you’d want to know about. It addresses a concern I’ve shared with you before – how to let web readers know the source and reliability of information they’re reading in news stories. For its part, the AP discussed and then implemented a [...] Political cartoonist Paul Conrad, who made both the elite list of three-time Pulitzer Prize winners and Richard Nixon’s enemies list, has died. His commentary and cartoons will be missed – if not by politicians of both parties, certainly by readers and journalists. Here is the Associated Press obituary for Conrad, and a few of his cartoons. By ANDREW [...] Here’s one of the things I’ve loved about hanging around newspapers all my working life: the smell of a new edition of the paper coming off the press. Now, thanks to a Missoula couple, I can log that pleasant inky aroma on a global map of smelly places. And on Sunday, thanks to reporter Keila Szpaller, [...] We honor a colleague, KPAX-TV news anchor Jill Valley, today with a thoughtful and wonderfully written story by reporter Michael Moore. It is Jill’s story, though, and she does the telling. About breast cancer. And courage. About the unstoppable force that is our desire, as human beings, to keep on living. There are many Jills in [...] There’s been a ton of chatter today about our decision to cancel a weekly feature on our print-edition Opinion page called Chatterbox. We launched Chatterbox shortly after we added online commenting to our stories, thinking that by running a sampling of reader comments on a particular story or topic in the print edition of the Missoulian, [...] |
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Campaign 2010: Let the games begin!
It’s Labor Day, and that means the “official” – or at least the traditional – start of the fall campaign season. And while much has been made about Montana’s lack of fiery statewide races this year, there are dozens of very significant local races.
Control of the 2011 Montana Legislature will be decided in each and [...]