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Services for former Billings Gazette sports editor are Monday

Warren Rogers

A memorial service for former Billings Gazette sports editor Warren Rogers is Monday in Billings.

Rogers died last week, at age 74. He led the sports coverage in Billings from 1972 until his retirement in 2000 – and in that time, gave many young sportswriters their start in the business.

Two of those writers now [...]

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It’s time to do a little shopping at your favorite app store. Just look for GrizSports, and you’ll find the Missoulian’s first app for University of Montana athletics.

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Journalists are geeks, or why we love our newsroom interns

Newsroom interns are gifts that keep on giving.

While they’re in our midst, most often in summer, they remind us of the joy of reporting and writing. They’re excited about every assignment. They arrive early and stay late, and wish they could stay even longer. They smile and laugh, and make us smile and laugh.

When they [...]

Coming Sunday: Backcountry rescues, big bears in Colorado

BORSTAR team members practice a swift-water river crossing on the Middle Fork of the Flathead River. The agents train for a variety of water rescue scenarios from shore, with ropes and in watercraft. TOM BAUER/Missoulian

The very best part of our jobs as journalists happens outside the newsroom, when we’re out and about in western [...]

Welcome to the Missoulian’s newest blog, GrizVox.com

There’s a new blogger in town and on Missoulian.com: Mick Holien, the voice of the University of Montana Grizzlies on radio broadcasts of football and basketball games.

Beginning today, you’ll be able to read Mick’s musings about Grizzly athletics on the Missoulian’s newest blog, http://grizvox.com.

Day to day, Mick will provide the inside scoop on life with [...]

Sportswriters on Twitter: Old dogs, new tweets

OK, so every journalist at every newspaper, magazine and network in America hasn’t embraced all the new ways of delivering our work with equal enthusiasm.

Sports Illustrated’s Peter King is just one of many examples.

His story also rings true because of how it ends: Once King started using the new platforms, he realized their power and [...]

Sunday’s Missoulian: Griz, Glacier, Fires of 2000

I’ve just made a first edit on several of the stories for this Sunday’s Missoulian, and want you to know this: It’s going to be an incredible newspaper.

We have a terrific lineup of A1 stories – significant, meaty work by our most experienced reporters – and a beautiful Territory section feature, one of our series [...]

Griz fever in the newsroom!

Six-year-old Wyatt Zander, left, and his brothers, twins Keith, middle, and Emmett, 5, get their footballs autographed by members of the University of Montana football team on Thursday during the Great Griz Encounter at Caras Park in Missoula. The event gives the public a chance to get autographs and meet the team. Photo by [...]

Grizzlies in Afghanistan!

A shout-out this afternoon from the Missoulian newsroom to the soldiers of the Montana 230th Vertical Engineer Company, Montana National Guard.

Specialist Kristopher Krause of Missoula sent us this awesome photograph of the soldiers showing their Griz colors atop a mountain in Afghanistan earlier this week.

They’ll be missing out on all the fun of Griz football [...]

Pioneer League baseball app ready for iPhone, Droid, Blackberry, SmartPhone

Missoula Osprey catcher Jae Yun Kim just misses the tag as Donald Lutz of the Billings Mustangs touches home plate for a run Friday at Ogren-Allegiance Park. Photo by TOM BAUER/Missoulian

The Missoulian’s new app for Osprey baseball – and, in fact, for all of the Pioneer League baseball teams is now available.

It’s free, too.

Here’s [...]