Media Projects

Memorial Row

Explore the history of UM’s Memorial Row through Assistant Professor Ray Fanning’s multi-media web site. See why the University planted two rows of Ponderosa Pine trees in 1919. Learn about the people they honor. And, find out how the memorial is linked to both World War I and the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Grace Case Project

This joint project by the Journalism School and the Law School during spring semester 2009 provided live, online coverage of the criminal prosecution of chemical giant WR Grace and several former executives. The trial in U.S. District Court in Missoula focused on charges that the company and the employees risked the lives of people in Libby, Mont., by allowing them to be exposed to a type of asbestos stirred up by the company’s vermiculite mining and ore processing near town. Students signed up for two-hour shifts to cover the trial using Twitter and blog updates.

Native News

This spring semester honors course for seniors and graduate students has won
national accolades for its yearly "tab" section. Teams of print and photojournalism students work together, focusing on a Native American issue such as education, sovereignty, race or health. The 2009 edition was called "Empty Justice."

Native News Archives

To view past Native News Honors Projects, click on the following titles: Spirit of Sport (2008), The Burdens of Indians' Affairs (2007 edition), Indian Education (2006), Perceptions (2005), Sovereignty (2004), Winds of Change (2001), Indian Identity (1998).

Reznet

This is a Native American news, information and entertainment Web site that also trains and mentors American Indian college students around the country as they prepare for journalism careers.

Montana Journalism Review

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. The spring 2009 issue focused on environmental journalism. Here are the MJR Archives.

Footbridge Forum

This series of radio programs is 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.

KBGA

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.

The Montana Kaimin

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 an online edition.

UM News

Each fall, 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.

Coverage of 2009 Montana Legislature

We have broadcast and print students who cover the Legislature for
communities across the state. Two broadcast students live in Helena and produce daily radio reports for about 50 community stations, thanks to funding from the Greater Montana Foundation. The J-School, in collaboration with the Montana Newspaper Association, also sponsors a graduate student to cover the session. Those stories run in about 40 small daily and weekly newspapers.

Montana Sedition Project

This site features news and information about the Montana Sedition Law of 1918 under which more than 40 Montanans went to prison for criticizing the government. As a result of the project, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer pardoned all sedition convicts in 2006.

Rural News Network

RNN helps small communities create local online hubs for news and information while teaching journalism students about the culture, economy and beauty of rural America.