Today on the TV news…
One of our reporters found this while browsing the TV news stations’ sites today. I wish the couple luck, but is this really worth of posting to the TV news site? Labeled as “continuous news”? Also...
View ArticleFierce backlash over John Walsh plagiarism
Montana Sen. John Walsh has been in trouble this week after the New York Times demonstrated that he had plagiarized large portions of the final paper he wrote in the U.S. Army’s War College back in...
View ArticleCorrections and guarding English usage
The Montana State Prison’s spokeswoman public/victim information officer sent out an email Friday to newsrooms across the state (emphasis theirs): Thank you for your recent articles and coverage of...
View ArticleBack and forth over accuracy of KBZK report
Two statements reported in a television news story about the investigation into Belgrade High School principal Paul Lamb have raised the hackles of journalists across the Gallatin Valley. A report on...
View ArticleTheWeek.com closing its comment section
More and more often I read about news websites shutting down their commenting sections. Just today it was TheWeek.com, whose explanation cited this gem of a reason for getting rid of news site...
View ArticleStatehouse reporting is dead; long live statehouse reporting
A lot of pixels have already been spilled in the past week about the closing of the Lee Enterprises state bureau in Helena and the departure of longtime reporters Chuck Johnson and Mike Dennison, but...
View ArticleLee, hell-bent for pageviews, goes the clickbait route
Ed Kemmick hits the nail on the head this morning with his post on the direction Lee Enterprises seems to be going online: At the same time they are cutting back on staff and by extension drastically...
View ArticleMTN article raises ethics questions
Update: Right now, the article on the KTVQ site has a byline, listing the author as Aja Goare. Was it there the whole time? Perhaps is this a case of someone at KBZK just not updating the CMS...
View ArticleTraining the bears
A lot of news organizations in Montana and around the Yellowstone region struck viral gold today thanks to an image posted to Reddit showing a comment card for a Xanterra hotel. The card, posted here,...
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Timeliness is next to newsiness
A story is making the rounds on the social Web this morning about a Bozeman-based animal-handling company and a bar in Virginia City. According to Judy Slate of KBZK, Animals of Montana brought a wolf...
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