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The Montana Newspaper Association (MNA) in collaboration with the Career Services Center at Carroll College is pleased to offer a Business Development Internship for the upcoming spring semester. The focus of the Internship will be to assist in business development and marketing the MNA agency advertising services, member services and Montana Newspaper Foundation. The intern […]

MNA Office Closed For Holiday Weekend The Montana Newspaper Association office will be closed Friday 11/27/14 for the Thanksgiving weekend. The office will be open during normal business hours once again on Monday 12/1/14. We will return voice and email messages at that time. MNA wishes a happy Thanksgiving to all!

 CHARLES S. JOHNSON [email protected]   HELENA — Twenty-two media groups have asked a District Court to find the Republican House caucus in contempt of court for holding an illegal party caucus on Nov. 13. The legal action asked District Judge Kathy Seeley of Helena to enforce the 1998 decision by former District Judge Thomas Honzel […]

By Tom Lutey – Billings Gazette BILLINGS – Lockwood and Worden state legislator Jonathan McNiven has resigned his post just two weeks after the general election. McNiven, a Republican first elected in 2010, told The Billings Gazette late Thursday he was leaving his post to focus on the Yellowstone County News, a publication he purchased […]

Scams hit newspapers, Gazette subscribers Billings Gazette October 31, 2014 A scam that is targeting newspaper and magazine subscribers nationwide has hit Billings and Gazette customers. Customers and residents may have gotten a bill that looks nearly identical to a normal Gazette bill via mail. The fake bills shows that a customer is due for […]

GAO: Montana mail service has suffered since 2011 cutbacks By Tom Lutey, Billings Gazette Government cutbacks have slowed mail delivery across Montana, according to a federal report issued Tuesday. Delivery service across much of the state slipped a day or more for first class mail and periodicals after the U.S. Postal Service lowered delivery standards […]

Public notices – the means by which government announces day-to-day activities important to citizens – are now easier than ever to find, thanks to a new statewide website supported by member newspapers of the Montana Newspaper Association (MNA). Notices such as public budgets, meeting agendas, sample ballots, court actions, construction projects and public hearings published […]

By Vince Devlin – The Missoulian POLSON – A weekly newspaper editor arrested by the Montana Highway Patrol while photographing a two-vehicle crash scene pleaded not guilty Wednesday to three misdemeanors. Vince Lovato of the Lake County Leader is charged with obstructing a peace officer or other public servant, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. Lovato […]

After 75 years of ownership, the Wyoming Newspaper Group has sold the Northern Wyoming Daily News according to John Cribb, Cribb, Greene & Associates who represented the seller in the transaction. The group made the decision to focus on their I-80 corridor newspapers, according to President of Cheyenne Newspapers, Inc.  Mike McCraken, who represents the […]

From the Great Falls Tribune Oct. 7, 2014 Eric Dietrich, [email protected] The editor of a weekly Montana newspaper was arrested last week by a Montana Highway Patrol trooper while reportedly taking pictures of a non-fatal crash on Montana Highway 35 near Flathead Lake. Vince Lovato, 53, the editor of Polson’s Lake County Leader, was arrested […]