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November • 2004

News briefs: Classroom visitors, photo conference, 'Montana 24-7'

Broadcast students join legislative coverage

UM broadcast students covered state races this fall, joining print students in Community News Service, a class that offers campaign and legislative coverage to Montana newspapers and radio stations. [More]

Sidebar: How I survived my first election night in the state capital

photo by Luke George
Both sides in Montana's 2004 gubernatorial race created negative ads using false information, Lee Newspapers State Bureau Chief Chuck Johnson tells students during a visit to Helena last month.

NY Times v. Sullivan
Landmark case
takes center stage

photo by Luke George

Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court decided the landmark libel case, J-School students hear from two men involved in the battle.[More]

Pollner lecture
Mainstream news
must evolve to thrive

photo by Luke George

Traditional journalism must change if it is to survive in what Pollner professor Nancy Szokan called the "treacherous marketplace" of cost cutting and Internet blogs.[More]


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Life in the Land of the Rising Sun

Photographer: Luke George

Editor: Sheri Venema, assistant professor

November 2004

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The University of Montana School of Journalism
Missoula, MT 59812
(406) 243-4001
Dean Peggy Kuhr