Parsing The Press: The Rise Of Nonprofit News
As traditional news organizations shrink, nontraditional news sites are popping up, including new non-profit news organizations. In this episode, our guest is Darrell Ehrlick, the editor of the non-profit
Daily Montanan, talking about the goals and challenges of this new and growing journalism model.
Listen now on Parsing the Press, a weekly look at how the news is reported, with Sally Mauk and Gwen Florio.
Sally Mauk The number of full time newspaper reporters covering state capitals has declined by over a third in recent years, according to the Pew Research Center. But other outlets, including new nonprofit news organizations, are stepping in to fill the void, including here in Montana. Darrell Ehrlick is the editor in chief of the
Parsing The Press: How News Silos Mirror State-Run Media
Americans take a free press for granted, but what s it like in countries where the news is government-controlled? Butte-based journalist and former foreign correspondent Kathleen McLaughlin joins Sally and Gwen to discuss this and what news silos in the U.S. may have in common with the press in totalitarian countries. Listen now on
Parsing the Press.
Sally Mauk The U.S. takes a free press for granted, but the constitutional protection is no guarantee without public support. And we have a special guest today to talk about what it s like to live and work in a country where the press is not free and independent.
Who Is A Journalist, And Who Gets To Decide?
These are dangerous times for journalists, now labeled soft targets by violent extremists, and the profession is coming up with new ways to protect reporters. More bloggers and websites are trying to pass as legitimate sources of news, but are they? Who is a journalist, and who gets to decide?
Listen now on Parsing the Press as journalists Sally Mauk and Gwen Florio discuss these issues.
Sally Mauk Gwen, the country braced this past week for more violence on Inauguration Day, not just in D.C., but potentially in state capitals as well. And violence that thankfully never materialized.
Welcome to the first episode of
Parsing the Press, a look at current issues and how they re being presented in the Montana press. Veteran journalist and author Gwen Florio joins MTPR s Sally Mauk for the weekly analysis.
Sally Mauk Gwen, the events this week in Washington, DC, with the storming of the Capitol by an angry mob egged on by the president of the United States was not what I thought we would be talking about in our first show. But here we are. And I want to start with a blunt editorial your old newspaper, the
Missoulian, ran calling on Montana Senator Steve Daines, Congressman Matt Rosendale and Governor Greg Gianforte to apologize to Montanans for contesting the presidential election, which the editorial board believes enabled the capital riot. And these editorials are not written by news reporters, but an independent group that often includes the newspaper publisher. And I want to read the last sentence of that editorial, which is addressed to those men, Make it ri