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  • Feb 10, 2025 | thewestrn.com | Nicole Qualtieri |Brad Tyer |Larry McMurtry

    Becoming a writer doesn’t happen without first becoming a reader. I kept a flashlight hidden by my bed for years as a child. I’m not sure whether I was a bad sleeper or just an extremely devoted bookworm. Once the lights were off, the flashlight clicked on. I would read until 4 a.m. sometimes, drunk on the majesty of worlds beyond my own. These days, I don’t need the flashlight. I simply turn a bedside lamp on and off.

  • Nov 5, 2024 | montanafreepress.org | Brad Tyer |Brad TyerEditor

    We’d like to let you know what to expect from MTFP today as we report Montana’s 2024 election results. Today at noon we’ll launch an election-special homepage at montanafreepress.org featuring a dashboard of up-to-the-minute race results courtesy of our partners at the Associated Press. Those results will start rolling in after the polls close at 8 p.m. We’ll update a central all-race-results story throughout the evening, and also post key updates directly on our homepage.

  • Jan 7, 2024 | montanafreepress.org | Andrew Houghton |Brad Tyer

    This story is presented in partnership with Skyline Sports, where it first appeared. It may not be republished without the express consent of Skyline Sports. FRISCO, Texas — Toyota Stadium in Frisco, the site of the crown jewel of the FCS calendar, is a soccer stadium hosting a football game, and on Sunday, it played host to a lesson usually reserved for the boxing ring.

  • Dec 29, 2023 | montanafreepress.org | Brad Tyer |Brad TyerEditor

    My role as MTFP’s editor gives me a very particular view of our newsroom and the work our reporters produce. Because while I rarely write more than a story summary myself, I do get to help direct our articles’ journeys all the way from hunch to headline. And a lot happens along that path. We strategize our sourcing, double-check our data, re-confirm our facts and workshop our word choice to get our stories as close to impeccable as possible.

  • Dec 11, 2023 | montanafreepress.org | Kylie Mohr |Brad Tyer

    This story was originally published Dec. 1, 2023, at High Country News. Snow from the Beaverhead Mountains feeds the Big Hole River, which snakes through forested mountains, grasslands and sagebrush steppe in southwestern Montana. But in 1988, drought hit the watershed hard. Water ceased flowing through the town of Wisdom for more than three weeks.

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