Reporter

Anne E. Pettinger grew up in the fields of southern Iowa, where the thunderskies turn gray-green and the kids jump on haybales. Somehow in the midst of studying English literature at Cornell College she discovered endless enthusiasm for western Montana and spent her summers at a place she calls "a little rugged utopia sans electricity and roads, somewhere on the Continental Divide."

After a short stint in Uppsala, Sweden, to whet her curiosity about socialism and a longer one in northern Minnesota to learn about dog sledding and cross-country skiing, Anne moved to Missoula, where she built trails with the Montana Conservation Corps and sold outdoor gear at a downtown store. Now she divides her time between working at the journalism school as faculty secretary and studying there as a 2nd-year graduate student. As an aspiring journalist, Anne is inspired by writers who are succinct but thorough and reporters who are unbiased without being ambivalent.

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