Missoula Independent Acquired by Lee Enterprises – A big loss for independent news in Montana

Lee Enterprises, the Iowa-based newspaper chain that dominates the Montana media landscape, probably dealt that tradition a crippling blow last week when it announced it had bought the Independent for an undisclosed sum.

Even if you live in Eastern Montana and have never heard of, much less read, the Missoula Independent http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/ , you ought to be worried about the fate of that alternative weekly newspaper.

The Indy, which has been around for more than 25 years, has had its ups and downs, but generally speaking it was a worthy successor to the underground and alternative newspapers that came before it, and which made Missoula the only city in Montana with a real tradition of that sort of journalism.
Ed

By: Ed Kemmick

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