MTN 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… Read More »MTN 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… Read More »MTN article raises ethics questions
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… Read More »Lee, hell-bent for pageviews, goes the clickbait route
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… Read More »Statehouse reporting is dead; long live statehouse reporting
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… Read More »TheWeek.com closing its comment section
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… Read More »Back and forth over accuracy of KBZK report
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… Read More »Corrections and guarding English usage
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… Read More »Fierce backlash over John Walsh plagiarism
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… Read More »Today on the TV news…
Good grief. KBZK posted a story yesterday with the following headline:Â “Experts: childhood vaccines deemed safe.” Was this really news on July 1, 2014? Did we… Read More »Vaccines and junk journalism
Chronicle crime reporter Whitney Bermes got into a discussion this morning with Missoulian crime reporter Kathryn Haake over documents with stories online. Particularly, Bermes was… Read More »Debating when to publish public documents