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It’s a bittersweet moment at Montana Public Radio today. After five years, Eric Whitney has decided to step down as MTPR news director and move on to a great job with NPR. Eric will soon be the NPR bureau chief for 10 Rocky Mountain and Great Plains states including Montana. He says he will, "be an editor who works with reporters based at NPR member stations and helps them get their stories on network shows, including Morning Editing and All Things Considered." Eric is not going far for his job. He’ll be based in Missoula but will be travelling a bit more, he says.
We have Eric to thank for his team’s award-winning coverage of public lands, politics and the Legislature, wildfires and health care to name just a few. His leadership established two outstanding news podcasts, SubSurface and Richest Hill, that have taken Montana stories around the country and the world. He’s created a terrific relationship with our partners at Yellowstone Public Radio bringing even more Montana news to our listeners.
Eric always did what needed to be done for MTPR. He was a great team leader, an expert editor, a mentor to student journalists from UM and always a forward thinker. MTPR will begin a national search for a new news director very soon. Please know that we remain committed to solid and strong Montana news coverage for all of you.
Thanks Eric! And thanks to all of you for supporting non-profit public radio news.
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Montana health officials on both the statewide and local level are piecing together a puzzle. State epidemiologist Laura Williamson says "a handful" of patients have recently come forward with possible cases of severe lung disease. The case reports are coming from across the state. The one thread connecting them? All the patients have a history of vaping.
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Montana wildlife officials are investigating what’s being described as a "significant" fish kill along the banks of the Upper Clark Fork River.
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks fisheries biologist Nathan Cook fielded a report this weekend of several dead fish downstream of Warm Springs and upstream of Galen.
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Fisher (Pekania pennanti), the carnivorous mustelid that co-evolved with porcupines
In the animal arms race, even quills won't save you. Though porcupines seem to be fully protected in their prickly suit of armor, there is one animal that has adapted to take advantage of a weakness in their shield.
Learn more with Field Notes from the Montana Natural History Center
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Schedule Highlights
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- 7 p.m. Thursday, September 12 - The Write Question - 'Maybe You Should Talk To Someone' With Lori Gottlieb
With startling wisdom and humor, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone takes readers into both Lori Gottlieb’s therapy office where she sees patients and into her own therapist’s office where she lands after a crisis. But really, the book is about the universal human condition. Lori writes about topics that make people think differently about themselves and the world around them: love and loss, meaning and mortality, gender and culture, parents and children, female appearance, regret and redemption, hope and change.
- 9:30 a.m. Saturday, September 14 - Climate Displacement at Home and Abroad
The recent wave of migrant caravans coming from Central America has a link to climate change: many of the migrants are fleeing their homes in the wake of crop failures, the result of a massive drought that has lasted for five years. Also, without the financial means to adapt or recover from climate impacts, disadvantaged groups here in the U.S. are especially vulnerable. The public housing residents displaced by Hurricane Florence and more, next time on Living on Earth from PRI.
- 4 p.m. Sunday, September 15 - An Intelligence Squared special on Science & The Economy
Can focusing on science and technology transform how Americans think about the economy and the future of the nation's working class? Former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson joins John Donvan for a conversation about his new book, "Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream."
- 8 p.m. Monday, September 16 - "Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns" Radio Companion
For 8 years, a group of filmmakers and historians aimed their focus on country music. They discovered all they could about the artists, the traditions, and especially the songs.
After gathering 101 interviews and thousands of pictures, they put together the PBS documentary "Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns."
In this special hosted by Jessie Scott, we'll hear a lot of the songs and talk with writer and producer Dayton Duncan, producer Julie Dunfey and director Ken Burns.
- 7 p.m. Tuesday, September 17 - Muician's Spotlight - Rahim AlHaj
Iraqi-American musician and composer Rahim AlHaj has traveled a musical and life journey that few could imagine. A virtuoso of the Oud (the grandfather of all string instruments), he had to flee his home in Iraq due to his political activism in opposition to Saddam Hussein. After escaping to Syria and then Jordan he moved to the US in 2000 as a political refugee and has resided in Albuquerque, NM ever since. In 2015 Rahim was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship, the highest honor for traditional arts in the USA.
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Join us for a one-hour seminar designed to help you craft media campaigns that get results.
You'll learn how to:
- Break through the media clutter and have your message heard
- Reach the highly desirable Montana Public Radio audience
- Calculate the cost-effectiveness of your media investment
- Cover all of western and central Montana in once cost-effective buy
Free registration: Contact Ginnie Morey
406-243-4044
ginnie.morey@umontana.edu
Seminars continue through Sept. 25, see the full seminar schedule here
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