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Big Sky High School journalism teacher Kim Lucostic discusses the proposed new publications policy during last week’s school board meeting. LINDA THOMPSON/Missoulian As Missoula County Public Schools trustees consider whether to adopt a proposed new student publications policy – one I’ve voiced opposition to on this blog – it’s heartening to see the community suggest [...]
Courtesy Steve Breen, San Diego Union-Tribune Steve Breen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the San Diego Union-Tribune, has once again proved the importance of journalists going straight to the source. Tormented by the Gulf oil disaster, but worried his bosses would think the idea hair-brained, Breen bought his own plane ticket and headed to the [...]
Photograph by BILL RUEDIGER The memories that remain are so often small scenes from large and overwhelming events. And so it was this week on the 30th anniversary of the May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens. I remembered the Missoulian newsroom filled with people and activity while the rest of town was shut down by [...] A mountain goat inspects tourists on the trail to Granite Park Chalet last summer. KURT WILSON/Missoulian We’re all storytellers. That’s why we like reading stories so much. In today’s Missoulian, we carried two stories with special requests for our readers to go online and share their own tales. The first, reporter Michael Moore’s story of Missoula cancer doc [...] One of the true champions of open government and freedom of information in Montana is Ian Marquand, known best to western Montanans as a longtime television broadcaster, known in the journalism community for his tireless work with the Montana Freedom of Information Hotline. The hotline is a critical resource for reporters, editors and photographers statewide. Thrown [...] Clay Bennett, The Christian Science Monitor Orville Daniels, the former and longtime supervisor of the Lolo National Forest, was right on when he spoke of open government. “I always tell my people, ‘Just open the windows and let the breeze blow through,’ ” he said. And his actions backed up those words over decades of leadership [...] UM President George Dennison announced his retirement plans last month. LINDA THOMPSON/Missoulian Here at the Missoulian, we’re looking for a little presidential material. Literally. We’d like to know your list of qualifications for the University of Montana’s next president. The Montana Board of Regents is collecting suggestions as it begins the search for UM President George [...] A huge thanks to all our faithful readers who’ve weighed in with suggested replacements for our Monday Opinion page columnist, Ellen Goodman. Be sure to take a look at all those ideas, attached to my original blog post. The Washington Post syndicate, which provided us with Goodman’s column, also sent a list of suggested replacements. I thought [...] Ellen Goodman, the longtime Boston Globe reporter and columnist, is retiring on Jan. 1. That means the Missoulian is shopping for a new columnist for our Monday Opinion page, a post held by Goodman for years. And that means we’re open to your suggestions. Is there a syndicated columnist you’d like to see once each week on [...] |
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Chatterbox is no more; online comments are just too nasty
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, [...]