KAIMIN
Student Newspaper |
More than a century old, the Montana Kaimin (a Salish word for messages)
publishes four times a week during the school year. The
student
staff covers the campus like a blanket. The Kaimin was also
one of the first student newspapers in the nation to publish
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KBGA
Student Radio Station |
Where else can
you find soccer and ska, Japanese and jazz, funky rhythms
and regular news programming? The totally student-run campus
radio station, plugged in in 1996, broadcasts 24/7 with 1000
watts at 89.9 FM. |
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The Footbridge Forum
A series of radio programs produced, directed and hosted by students in the Radio-Television Department. The live shows feature campus and community citizens coming together to deliberate on topics of importance to the community. |
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UM News
Seniors in the Radio-Television Department produce weekly television reports highlighting the happenings on The University of Montana campus. Commercial televisions stations in Montana air the programs and you can see them online.
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This honors course for seniors and graduate students has won national accolades for its yearly "tab." Teams of print and photojournalism students work together, focusing on a Native American issue such as education, sovereignty, race or health. Here, we present the 2008 edition, "The Spirit of Sport."
For archives see the 2008 edition. |
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MJR
Montana Journalism Review
2008
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Students who work on the annual Montana Journalism Review learn, by doing, how to edit and publish a magazine, from the idea stage to the print run. MJR is the nation's first journalism review. Click here for MJR Archives. |
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The Unabomber in Montana:
10 Years After
A retrospective on the arrest of Ted Kaczynski in Lincoln, Mont., produced by students in feature writing, advanced photojournalism and design during the Spring 2006 semester. |
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The World's Largest Camel Fair
As an intern at the Kathmandu Post and Kantipur Daily, J-School photo student Allison Kwesell covered the annual Pushkar Fair in the holy Hindu town of Pushkar in India. Kwesell is currently working on a story in Kathmandu, funded by UM, about the experience of Tibetan refugees in Nepal and India.(slide show by Teresa Tamura) |
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Lobbying Montana
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In the spring of 2006, students in the school’s Investigations class found gaping holes in Montana’s lobbyist disclosure laws. They found that ethics officials lack the means to verify lobbyists’ activities or make that information easily available to the public. They also reported a brewing controversy over efforts to make legislators and other state officials “cool off” before becoming lobbyists. |
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“Toward Home: One Migrant Family’s Journey,” is the professional project of Kathryn Stevens, who earned her master's degree in May 2005. Stevens' photographs document the lives of the Martinez family from Mexico, who spend nine months of the year as migrant farm workers in the United States. |
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Students in a Wintersession 2004 class interviewed veterans of WWII and Korea as part of a national effort, coordinated by the Library of Congress, to preserve oral histories of people who served in wars during the 20th century. Read the stories they found |
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"Fall From Grace"
from the
Community News Service class |
This series of articles, published in the Missoulian in November 1999, documents the serious health and legal problems arising from asbestos mining in Libby, Mont. The series was researched, reported and written by three second-year graduate students, Shannon Dininny, Ericka Schenck Smith and Benjamin Shors, with photographs by classmate Charlotte Rushton. The Community News Service project was directed by Professor Dennis Swibold. |
