Montana Public Radio kicks off the New Year
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MISSOULA — Montana Public Radio kicks off the New Year with three new programs. First, the MTPR weekly legislative news and analysis program “Capitol Talk” returns for another season with host Sally Mauk, Lee Enterprises’ Capitol bureau chief Holly Michels and Rob Saldin of the University of Montana political science department and Mansfield Center. The trio will present lively analysis of the week’s news from the 2021 Montana Legislature each Friday during All Things Considered.
“This legislative session should be very interesting, especially with Montana Republicans controlling the Governor’s office for the first time in nearly two decades,” said Mauk, who has covered Montana politics for more than 40 years.
Mauk will also be hosting a new program called “Parsing the Press” that airs Friday mornings at 7:50 a.m. during Morning Edition. “Parsing the Press” will look at current issues and how they are being presented in the press. Veteran journalist and author Gwen Florio joins Mauk for the weekly analysis.
“Journalism and the role of the press have been debated so much in the past four years,” said Mauk. “We’ll look at the good, the bad and the ugly in journalism today.”
The award-winning podcast “Richest Hill” will be on MTPR airwaves on Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. Richest Hill looks at the past, present and future of one of America’s most notorious Superfund sites. The 10 episodes are hosted by MTPR’s Nora Saks. Saks received the prestigious 2019 Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize from WBUR in Boston. The prize salutes a new generation of public radio journalists under the age of 35 seeking to inspire them to stretch the boundaries of the medium.
“We’re excited to bring this wildly successful podcast to MTPR,” said program director Michael Marsolek. “It’s such a well-told and well-produced radio series; we believe everyone will really enjoy hearing the stories of Butte, America.”
Montana Public Radio is a public service of UM and broadcasts on 89.1 Missoula (KUFM); 91.5 Missoula city (K218AI); 91.9 Hamilton (KUFN); 89.5 Polson (KPJH); 90.1 Kalispell, Whitefish, North Valley (KUKL); 90.5 Libby (KUFL); 91.7 Kalispell, city (K219BN); 101.3 Swan Lake (K267BJ); 91.3 Butte (KAPC); 91.7 Helena (KUHM); 91.7 Dillon (K219DN); 89.9 Great Falls (KGPR); and 98.3 White Sulphur Springs (K252AD). Learn more at http://www.mtpr.org.
