10 Problems, 10 Solutions: Newspapers Share How They Overcame Some of Their Toughest Challenges By: Gretchen A. Peck For centuries, newspaper organizations did it all. They reported and crafted the columns. They laid out the pages and applied the ink to newsprint. They sold the ads and fostered relationships with businesses that bought them. And […]

    By David Erickson, Missoulian Longtime Missoula Independent publisher Matt Gibson has been named the general manager of the Missoulian, the Ravalli Republic and the Independent, three news outlets owned by Lee Enterprises. Mike Gulledge, Lee Enterprises publishing vice president and regional publisher of the Missoulian and Billings Gazette, made the announcement during a […]

By DARRELL EHRLICK [email protected]   Pulitzer Prize winning editor Kathy Best believes now is the perfect time for more women to trust their voices and become active. And she should know. The current editor of The Missoulian has been a journalist for some of the largest newspapers in the country, including helping her team take […]

Skullduggery rampant with Chronicle’s eclipse glasses By Nick Ehli, Bozeman Daily Chronicle editor This, apparently, is why we can’t have nice things. A few weeks ago, some Chronicle staffers — OK, it was over cocktails — hatched the idea of inserting eclipse glasses into the newspaper on the Sunday prior to the moon crossing in […]

Press rolls again at Livingston Enterprise Published by Enterprise Staff on Wed, 08/02/2017 The Livingston Enterprise presses roared back to life at 8:10 p.m. Tuesday after an extensive effort to repair damage left behind after police say someone broke into the business and started a fire. Police arrested a 17-year-old Livingston youth on charges of burglary and […]

Great Falls Tribune, Bozeman Daily Chronicle join groups challenging Marsy’s Law July 24, 2017 Great Falls Tribune Seaborn Larson, slarson@greatfallstribune. Two more daily newspapers on Monday joined litigation challenging CI-116, known primarily as Marsy’s law, which was set to take effect on July 1. The Great Falls Tribune and Bozeman Daily Chronicle filed amicus briefs […]

News outlets want to push for “better economic deal” with Facebook, Google CBS News This Morning July 11, 2017, 8:32 AM| A Pew study finds advertising revenue plunged by nearly a third in the past decade for media outlets. The industry now wants Congress to take action by allowing them to renegotiate how content is […]

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By Lee Newspapers, Jayme Fraser [email protected] June 28, 2017 A group of Montana newspapers has been allowed to join a challenge to Marsy’s law as a friend of the court. The law, a so-called victims’ bill of rights, was passed by voters in November and is supposed to take effect July 1. The American Civil Liberties […]