Michael Becker is the Web Editor of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. He has been a blogger and professional journalist since 2005, covering subjects ranging from nonprofits and crime to engineering and technology.
The Chronicle began a 3-day series on avalanches this morning with [a hell of a story](http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/article_d41a4aa8-499b-11e2-aff2-001a4bcf887a.html) by reporter Jason Bacaj, who interviewed a local man… Read More »Avalanche series ‘Perils in Powder’ starts today
Sometime early this morning, a post appearing to be from a disgruntled social media marketer went public on [the state of Montana’s tourism page on… Read More »UPDATED: Social media manager seems to quit job very publicly on Montana state tourism Facebook page
The state of Montana updated [its website](http://www.mt.gov) today, emphasizing ease of use for visitors on mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Jayson O’Neill, spokesman for… Read More »State of Montana adopts responsive website design
In this morning’s Game Day section, the Chronicle’s new sports writer, Kyle Sample, went and did some unpopular things. Not only did Sample pick the… Read More »Bashing Kyle Sample
Here’s a fun one. In today’s paper, we ran an editorial criticizing the way elections have been handled in Gallatin County and beyond. The editorial… Read More »Einstein probably didn’t say that famous quote about insanity
On Oct. 12, I tweeted a link to this story by Aaron James at Salon.com: How Fox News created a new culture of idiots zite.to/UUOtRU… Read More »Thoughts on a Twitter exchange
A staffer here at the Chronicle received the Kim Gillan mailing below last week and noticed that it cites the Bozeman Daily Chronicle twice. It’s… Read More »Fact-checking Chronicle quotes in a Gillan ad
Wilcoxson’s, the Livingston-based ice cream company whose president drew the fury of the Internet a few weeks ago over an insensitive comment on its Facebook… Read More »Wilcoxson’s moving on from Facebook flap
A fun one from the Romenesko blog today: [The Stamford Advocate in Connecticut has banned the word “fracking” in its comment section](http://jimromenesko.com/2012/10/17/hearst-site-bans-the-word-fracking-in-comments/), citing how it’s… Read More »Fracking ban
On the heels of [my](http://www.news.hypercrit.net/2012/10/10/do-newspaper-endorsements-matter/) [posts](http://www.news.hypercrit.net/2012/10/15/reaction-to-tester-endorsement/) about newspapers endorsing candidates, another newspaper has announced that it will stop endorsing candidates for president. The Knoxville News… Read More »Knoxville paper halts presidential endorsements