The new edition of Montana Journalism Review tracks Western journalists as national and global events push them past their comfort zones. From local coverage of refugee resettlement to an experiment in right-wing news immersion, the 2017 issue of MJR scrutinizes how news professionals are responding to growing distrust in the media and ongoing changes in … Continue reading MJR 2017 publishes “Far From Comfort” edition
Missoula to Berlin: The Field Experience
Today in Berlin, a new piece of journalism was born. Maybe that doesn’t qualify as news, but if you had the chance to be there at the birth, you might share my appreciation. 18 UM J School students put together a web site bursting with articles, photographs, graphs, charts and social media. Their focus is … Continue reading Missoula to Berlin: The Field Experience
Missoula to Berlin Update: The Optimistic Generation
It’s hard to imagine what’s going on in Germany today. But try this: imagine you live in a country that has the opportunity to accomplish two earth-shattering, history-making achievements in the space of one generation. First, you are able to reunite a country divided completely by the Cold War, and you manage to do this … Continue reading Missoula to Berlin Update: The Optimistic Generation
Missoula to Berlin Update: May 26, 2016
They came by plane and by train and by foot, a dozen and a half of them, carrying bundles and suitcases and keepsakes, looking tired but relieved to have arrived in Berlin. No, these are not refugees, they are UM Journalism students, 18 of them, here on a study-abroad trip for the next three weeks. … Continue reading Missoula to Berlin Update: May 26, 2016
Alumnus reflects on circumstance and ethics as “both a bystander and a journalist” in Paris
Shane McMillan is a native of western Montana and graduated from the School of Journalism in 2010, at which point he moved to Berlin on a Fulbright scholarship. He interned as a photographer with the Associated Press, and worked as an English translator for German film projects. It was this second gig that helped push … Continue reading Alumnus reflects on circumstance and ethics as “both a bystander and a journalist” in Paris
Photojournalism students find global stories at home
In 1959 over a hundred thousand Tibetans left behind a homeland occupied by the Chinese military. After countless twists and turns some of them ended up in Montana. Now, years later, a few are sharing their stories with graduate student Matt Roberts. The interviews Roberts is conducting are part of a project by the School … Continue reading Photojournalism students find global stories at home