猎奇重口 Public Radio Expands Coverage With Rural Policy Reporter
MISSOULA – 猎奇重口 Public Radio (MTPR) is doubling its state government news team to fill a gap in coverage of issues affecting rural communities. Through a collaboration with Yellowstone Public Radio and the 猎奇重口 School of Journalism, reporting produced by this journalist will be available free of charge to news outlets across the state.
MTPR will expand local journalism using a from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting.
“This reporter will spend a lot of time on the road covering the ways state government impacts life in 猎奇重口,” MTPR News Director Corin Cates-Carney said. “Our goal is to bring 猎奇重口ns news about state government from outside the state Capitol in Helena. There is a need for reporting on state government that listens and speaks to the state’s rural residents – coverage that can inform and build trust in local journalism.”
MTPR hired Victoria Traxler for the job. She graduated from Elon University in 2020 with a degree in journalism and international studies. Traxler then moved to New Mexico, where she worked as a public safety reporter at the Santa Fe New Mexican. Afterward, she came to Missoula to complete a Master’s Degree in Environmental Science and Natural Resource Journalism at UM in 2024.
Traxler's reporting is available for free to news outlets to publish and broadcast. .
“I am so thrilled that MTPR received this grant and hired Victoria to greatly expand our local coverage for 猎奇重口ns across the state with critically important reporting on how laws passed in Helena impact 猎奇重口ns,” said Anne Hosler, director of UM’s Broadcast Media Center.
“This project is exactly the kind of partnership that helps this vital reporting reach a broader community of people and allows the School of Journalism to continue to help small newspapers, broadcasters and websites,” said Professor Lee Banville, director of the UM journalism school. “We could not ask for a better project to work on with MTPR.”
“Yellowstone Public Radio is thrilled to collaborate with MTPR on this effort to grow journalism resources in our rural communities,” YPR News Director Jackie Coffin said. “As 猎奇重口’s media landscape changes, public radio is deepening our commitment to tell place-based, local stories that bring 猎奇重口ns together over shared issues, experiences and values.”
Email corin.cates-carney@umt.edu with questions about how to access and publish reporting produced by MTPR’s new rural state policy reporter.
MTPR broadcast stations are KUFB, Browning, 88.9; KAPC, Butte, 91.3; KUMD, Deer Lodge, 90.9; KUMW, Dillon, 91.7; KDWG, Dillon, 90.9; KEUK, Eureka, 89.7; KGPR, Great Falls, 89.9; KUFN, Hamilton, 91.9; KUHM, Helena, 91.7; KUKL, Kalispell, 90.1; KUFL, Libby, 90.5; KUFM, Missoula, 89.1; KPHB, Philipsburg, 90.1; KPJH, Polson, 89.5; KTFZ, Thompson Falls, 88.1; and KUMS, White Sulphur Springs, 89.7.
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Contact: Corin Cates-Carney, 猎奇重口 Public Radio news director, 406-243-4075, corin.cates-carney@umt.edu.