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Meet Erika Fredrickson and Matthew Frank; co-founders of Missoula's independent, nonprofit news organization The Pulp that covers people, politics, arts and culture. It was a shock when the Missoula Independent shut it's doors abruptly and with the deepening journalism crisis, Erika and Matthew took a new approach to independent journalism so they could continue to inform and engage their community. Check out The Pulp: https://thepulp.org/
Stories from America's Most Important Public Lands Across 193 million acres of forests, mountains, deserts, watersheds, and grasslands, national forests provide a multitude of uses as diverse as America itself. Welcoming 170 million visitors each year to hike, bike, paddle, ski, fish, and hunt, “the people's lands” offer more than just recreation. Timber is harvested, lost habitats are recovered, and endangered wildlife is protected as part of the Forest Service's enduring mission. In Our National Forests, Greg Peters reveals an inside look at America's most important public land and the people committed to protecting it and ensuring access for all. From the story of how the Forest Service grows millions of seedlings in the West each year, to their efforts to save the hellbender salamander in Appalachia, the narrative spans the breadth of the country and its diverse ecology. People are at the center of the stories, whether the dedicated folks in the Forest Service, or the everyday citizens who support and tend to the protected lands near their homes. This complete look at America's National Forests—their triumphs, challenges, controversies, and vital programs—is a must-read for everyone interested in the history of America's most important public lands. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Greg Peters is a freelance writer based in Missoula, Montana. Before writing full time as a freelancer, Greg was the director of communications at the National Forest Foundation where, among many other things, he edited the NFF's magazine Your National Forests. His writing has appeared in National Parks magazine, High Country News, Down East magazine, Big Sky Journal, Outside Bozeman, Missoula Independent, and more. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steve-richards/support
Tonight Ednor Therriault and I talk about a place we love. MONTANA... After living all over the U.S. before bouncing around the Pacific Northwest for 15 years, Ednor settled in Missoula in 1993. It was a perfect fit. His Montana roots run deep: his father was born in the tiny gold-mining settlement of Southern Cross, and his great-great-grandparents homesteaded along Douglas Creek in western Montana in the late 1800's.Journalism and graphic design were Ednor's disciplines in college, and he enjoys a fulfilling freelance career creating music, writing books and articles, and doing design work. He spent his Kerouac-inspired salad days in Seattle before moving to Missoula. Within six months of arriving in Montana's cultural and creative hub, Ednor was playing in a band and had met the woman he would eventually marry. Two years later he assumed the nom de guerre Bob Wire and formed the legendary country rock band Bob Wire and the Fencemenders. Then band had a rollicking live show, and were voted Best Local Band twice by the Missoula Independent. Their fans are legion. Having embraced the larger-than-life Bob Wire persona, Ednor was voted Missoula's entertainer of the year in 2007.Ednor is a naturally curious writer with a quirky sense of humor, and likes examining life on the fringes, bringing light to subjects that aren't covered much in the mainstream. This made him a perfect fit to write his first book, "Montana Curiosities," which was released in 2010 on Globe Pequot Press. The second edition was published in 2016, and the title has become the biggest selling installment in the "Curiosities" series. He has since written "Myths and Legends of Yellowstone," released in 2018, and "Seven Montanas," scheduled for publication in late 2019. Currently, he's at work on "Haunted Montana" and a revision of "Montana Off the Beaten Path."Ednor's writing has appeared in the Missoulian, Montana Magazine, Missoula Lifestyle and Distinctly Montana, and the late, lamented Missoula Independent. He also writes a twice-yearly humor column for Mountain Outlaw magazine, typically featuring his inept attempts at enjoying Montana's outdoor lifestyle. Ednor's first novel, a rock and roll crime story, is being readied for publication.Ednor lives with his wife Shannon in Missoula, and they have two adult children, Sophia and Hudson.www.ednor.com, www.makeitmissoula.com, www.BobWireHasaPoint.com, www.BobWireMusic.net Become A Monthly Patron Option 1 : $1.00 USD - monthly Option 2 : $5.00 USD - monthly Option 3 : $10.00 USD - monthly Option 4 : $20.00 USD - monthly Option 5 : $50.00 USD - monthly Option 6 : $55.00 USD - monthly Greetings human listeners. I’m Cameron Brauer and this is My Alien Life Patron page. https://patron.podbean.com/myalienlife My Alien Life is a podcast for those who have a story to tell, and I really wish I could get to all of your stories. I promise to do my best.. What is this? Think of it as an online tip jar. My Alien Life Patron Page is a website that gives everyone in the world an opportunity to become a patron and support the artists they believe in. The great thing about supporting My Alien Life is, you get to decide how much you feel comfortable contributing to each podcast. My goal is to keep doing at least two podcasts each week… And it’s okay if you want to put a cap on how much you’d like to support every month so you don’t go over your budget.. As you know, some weeks I get a burst of energy and I want to produce lots of new content… I’ll keep producing episode after episode and you’ll get ALL the content.. I won’t hold back and make you pay for extra content. And if you just want to listen without becoming a patron, that’s awesome, you still get to hear all My Alien Life Podcasts for free. It’s expensive to make a podcast. There’s electronic gear, web domain fees, web hosting fees, tee-shirts, postage stamps, tin foil hats, alien assault spray and more..... No matter what you decide, please always listen to the podcast. That’s what I really want. We are a team, and your support is what keeps people like us going… Thank you for being amazing, and keep listening to My Alien Life the Podcast!! Respectfully, Cam You can find my website at www.myalienlifepodcast.com and our latest downloads are always at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher at Podbean.com and everywhere else fine podcasts are found…...and please follow me and like me on Facebook and Twitter... My alien life is written and produced for broadcast at Studio 254 in the Northern Rocky Mountains.. The music you've heard tonight is produced and created by ELEON. ELEON is changing the face of New Age with what can only be describes as "Epic Chill" on Heart Dance Record's first Electronic release. You can find all ELEON’s work online at HEART DANCE records, Facebook...
One of the best ways to educate yourself about a community is to read, watch or listen to their local media. But independent local media outlets are becoming scarce. Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we present the story of the death, and possible resurrection of the Missoula Independent. We'll also talk about medical […]
Montana Free Press editor Brad Tyer has watched the news business evolve throughout his three-decade career in commercial and nonprofit journalism. “Support for news-gathering organizations — the model has changed,” Tyer tells Lowdown podcast host John S. Adams, his new boss. “But ultimately, a news-gathering organization has got to be supported by people who value the news-gathering.” A longtime editor of the weekly Missoula Independent, Tyer had a hand in hiring and mentoring several up-and-coming Montana reporters, including Adams, who joined the Independent staff in 2005. Tyer edited the Indy from 2002 to 2007, and again from 2016 through 2018, having written a book about environmental justice in Montana and worked as an editor at the Texas Observer in the interim. He found himself “underemployed” when the Independent was closed in 2018. The timing turned out to be fortuitous. After a brief stint editing MTFP stories on contract from Missoula, he moved to Helena in August to join the growing MTFP staff full time, assigning and editing stories from staff and freelance reporters and developing editorial strategies for the future. He’s also taken on the role of coordinating a statewide reporting collaboration among Montana newsrooms in partnership with the Montana Newspaper Association and the Solutions Journalism Network. The project, titled Graying Pains: Challenges and Opportunities in the West’s Oldest State, will debut in early 2020. Tyer’s pivot from editor to guest on the Lowdown podcast lets listeners eavesdrop on a conversation between longtime friends and colleagues about the importance of building mutually supportive relationships between readers and newsrooms and the daily rewards of finding new ways to thrive in a business being forced to reinvent itself.
A 7-year-old goes missing while on a family camping trip in 1973. Anonymous calls would be placed demanding a ransom, but, the trail would grow cold until exactly one year later when the kidnapper would call her mother to brag about taking her daughter. Several resources were used in the research of this episodes including: Documentary: The FBI Files, "Dark Woods", Season 5, Episode 13. Articles: Bible Verse May Have Spurred Meirhofer, The Daily Interlake, October 4, 1974 Small Town Terror by Joseph MacNamara for The New York Daily News, December 22, 1994 The Quality of Mercy by Antoinette Martin for The Detroit Free Press, August 21, 1994 Not Another Victim by Amy Linn for The Missoula Independent, November 5, 2015 Music Credits: Music from https://filmmusic.io"Floating Cities" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Sponsors: Italic - www.Italic.com - use offer code ONCE for 15% off your first order Bombas - www.Bombas.com/ONCE for 20% off your first purchase. Links: Patreon: www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime CrimeCon CrowdSolve - https://www.crimecon.com/crowdsolve-seattle
Ep. 72. John discusses "Queen of Earth," a scrapped Album 5 demo that was a departure for the band in terms of its lyrics and sound. John examines why he didn't like it back in 2002, why it's grown on him, and how the band's experiment with a fifth member impacted the initial demo fans heard. LISTEN: 1. "Queen of Earth" (6/25/2002) on YouTube 2. "Queen of Earth (7/16/2002) on YouTube LYRICS: 1. "Queen of Earth" at Genius.com MORE INFO: 1. "Queen of Earth" at Weezerpedia 2. Album 5 Demos at Weezerpedia 3. Maladroit at Weezerpedia 4. Ryan Maynes at Weezerpedia 5. Arlo at Sub Pop Records 6. May 27, 2010 Missoula Independent article 7. Office Demos at Weezerpedia Want a free Post-Pinkerton sticker? Send your mailing address to postpinkertonpod@gmail.com!
Derek Brouwer and Erika Fredrickson from the Missoula Independent talk us through the last days of the Missoula Independent.
Derek Brouwer and Susan Shepard sat down at the table to discuss the current happenings at the Missoula Independent. Support us at www.patreon.com/jamieandtravispresent and check out our archive of episodes at www.jamieandtravispresent.com
Jason Weiner recounts his travels in a far-reaching corner of the world. Jason Wiener is doing things more often than he is buying things and he is always looking for an excuse to go somewhere new. He recently returned from a walkabout and is still unpacking from that trip. He grew up in Concord, New Hampshire. He arrived in Missoula in 2003 to earn his Master’s in philosophy from the University of Montana. He’s worked at The Missoula Independent, served on the City Council and formed a computer consulting company called The Techxorcist. He’s a Ranger in Black Rock City every year at Burning Man. This episode of Tell Us Something was recorded in front of a live audience on June 20, 2017 at The Wilma in Missoula, MT. 9 storytellers shared their story. The theme was “On the Road”. This week’s story comes to us from Jason Wiener. He calls his story “You Must Come Stay with My Family”.
Alex Sackersen remembers when his friend Melissa Weaver invited him to be her date at a wedding. His journey with her takes a very unexpected turn. This story is lovingly dedicated to Melissa Weaver and the Weaver family. Alex Sackersen is a 2008 graduate of the University of Montana’s School of Journalism. Hailing from a family of storytellers, and having grown up as one himself, he now makes his living writing about the environment, politics, and the people around us, for the Missoula Independent. Please welcome Alex Sackersen. This episode of Tell Us Something was recorded in front of a live audience on June 20, 2017 at The Wilma in Missoula, MT. 9 storytellers shared their story. The theme was “On the Road”. This week’s story comes to us from Alex Sackersen and is titled “Reluctant Journey”
Erika joins us at the kitchen table to discuss the recent acquisition of the Missoula Independent by Lee Enterprises.