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City of Bozeman releases report on hiring policy investigation

By Michael Becker | Published: October 3, 2009
The City of Bozeman on Friday released the results of a consultant’s inves­ti­ga­tion into its hir­ing prac­tices. I haven’t had time to read it yet, but I thought I’d post the report here in the meantime. Original link to city site Report on inves­ti­ga­tion into City of Bozeman hir­ing prac­tices
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Social media as journalism in a small city

By Michael Becker | Published: September 17, 2009
Back in March, an explo­sion tore apart a half block of down­town Bozeman. Moments after the explo­sion, lots of peo­ple down­town and else­where got on their com­put­ers, cell phones, Blackberries and other devices and started posted to Twitter using the hash­tag #boz­ex­plod. All day long, updates poured onto the site. At one point, sev­eral peo­ple [...]
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More on police officer’s resignation over his Facebook comments

By Michael Becker | Published: September 4, 2009
Just a few more details to add to the story today, thanks to the report in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. The Bozeman Police Department is say­ing that Anderson was not asked to quit. Police Chief Mark Tymrak said at a press con­fer­ence Thursday that it was “a deci­sion on Mr. Anderson’s part.” Tymrak went on: It’s a real [...]
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Bozeman police officer resigns over comments he made on Facebook

By Michael Becker | Published: September 3, 2009
Police officer Cody Anderson, whose controversial comments on his Facebook profile came to light last month, resigned from the Bozeman Police Department.
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#bozeplod, six months on

By Michael Becker | Published: August 24, 2009
On March 5, a nat­ural gas explo­sion in down­town Bozeman killed one woman and destroyed sev­eral buildings. That morn­ing, local Twitter users went crazy online, shar­ing minute-by-minute updates from down­town and every­where else. The hash­tag I cre­ated a few min­utes after the blast — #boz­ex­plod — became a trend­ing topic on Twitter for a good por­tion [...]
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