Hometown news

The MTFP Local project, a seed of an idea in 2022, took root in 2023. Media corporations throughout the country have for the last several years invested less and less in the news they produce. Many of Montana’s newsrooms, unfortunately, have not been immune. That’s probably not a huge surprise to careful readers, but it does underscore the need for the type of reporting you’re used to reading in Montana Free Press. Our local project started in 2022 as an ambition to supplement our more established statewide coverage by providing more local-oriented journalism to the communities of Monta