For sports, Montana’s very long streets all lead to 406mtsports.com By Jeff Welsch, Billings Gazette Montana, it has been said, is “just a small town with very long streets.” It is a vast intimate community unto itself where residents puff out their collective chests when a Brock Osweiler or a Tejay Van Garderen or a […]

West Yellowstone News to close September 2   West Yellowstone News, August 19, 2016   The West Yellowstone News will no longer be published by Big Sky Publishing as of Sept. 2. The newspaper and its website will close unless a buyer is found. Big Sky Publishing president Stephanie Pressly shared the news with News […]

FCC retains media cross-ownership rules  Roger Yu, USA TODAY5:38 p.m. EDT August 11, 2016 (Photo: Andrew Harnik, AP) The Federal Communications Commission has voted to keep in place its rules that prohibit media companies from owning newspapers and TV or radio stations in the same market, rejecting lobbying from the newspaper industry, that argues the limits are outdated. In 1975, […]

JAMES FALL JR. James “Jim” Randolph Fall, Jr. — father, husband, grandfather, friend, newspaperman, sports fan, fisherman, golfer — the former mayor of Maryville who served as the executive editor of the Maryville Daily Forum and who was a lifelong advocate for community journalism, died Tuesday at Mosaic Hospital in St. Joseph. He was 79. […]

  By Chronicle Staff Jul 29, 2016   Chuck Johnson  Veteran Montana journalist Chuck Johnson will join the staff of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle to cover the state’s legislative session in 2017, the newspaper announced Friday. “Chuck’s experience and knowledge of Montana politics cannot be overstated,” said Nick Ehli, the newspaper’s managing editor. “We’re thrilled […]

STATE OF THE NEWSPAPER MEDIA NOT JUST BLACK AND WHITE BY EMMA BENNINGHOFF, COMMUNICATIONS INTERN On June 15th, Pew Research Center came out with their 2016 “State of the News Media” research study. The study highlights a decline in print newspaper circulation, concluding that the newspaper industry is “shrinking.” However, the report omits a significant factor in […]

NAHP News In the Battle over Public Notices; Hispanics, Minorities Stand to Lose Most By Brian M. Brown Special to NAHP It hasn’t been the best of times in the print newspaper industry – if you’re so-called mainstream or legacy media. Plunging circulations and the Internet have played a major role in the decline of […]

The Western News reports that former editor Bob Henline helped Tammy Brown draft a petition to recall Mayor Doug Roll BY JUSTIN FRANZ // JUN 24, 2016 // Flathead Beacon The editor of Libby’s twice-weekly newspaper has resigned after it was discovered he helped draft a petition to recall the city’s mayor. On June 24, The Western News reported that […]

  The 131st Annual Convention of the Montana Newspaper Association was held June 9-11 in Whitefish, Montana. At the Montana Newspaper Association annual meeting, Darla Downs, The Herald-News was elected 1st Vice President; Kyle Rickhoff, Billings Gazette, was elected 2nd Vice President and Scott Squillace, Livingston Enterprise, was elected 3rd Vice President. Erin Leonard, The […]

Despite ‘Doom and Gloom,’ Community Newspapers are Growing Stronger By: Sharon Knolle Illustration by Tony O. Champagne Small, community newspapers across the country are not just surviving, but—in many cases—actually thriving. Many of them have managed to dodge the layoffs and downsizing that larger papers have had to face. Chip Hutcheson, president of the National Newspaper […]