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Citizen journalism has a cost

By Michael Becker | Published: November 7, 2009
Normally, I’m pretty gung-ho for social media and cit­i­zen jour­nal­ism. I really do believe that jour­nal­ism isn’t some high-and-mighty, elit­ist pro­fes­sion. Real peo­ple with drive and curios­ity can report news and write analy­sis, regard­less of their educations. As such, cit­i­zen report­ing is a good thing because I gen­er­ally think “the more infor­ma­tion to work with, the [...]
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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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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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Montana ACLU congratulates Bozeman for rescinding password policy

By Michael Becker | Published: August 3, 2009
The ACLU of Montana con­grat­u­lated the City of Bozeman for rescind­ing its pass­word pol­icy in an undated state­ment posted to the organization’s Web site. “While an employer can (and likely should dur­ing the course of a back­ground check) view an applicant’s pub­lic pro­file on online sites, demand­ing access to infor­ma­tion that appli­cant has set to pri­vate — [...]
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