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Matt Bunk — the recently-hired editor of the Missoulian in Missoula, Mont., who replaced a much more experienced (and better-paid) editor at the Lee Enterprises paper — has resigned this week.

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Bunk, who's in his mid-30s, was hired in August to replace longtime editor (and Missoulian employee) Sherry Devlin. She is suing Lee Enterprises and Missoulian publisher Mark Heintzelman, alleging that she was harassed, discriminated against and demoted prior to resigning last year.

Devlin had worked at the paper nearly 30 years, working her way up from reporter to city editor to editor in chief. Bunk was appointed as her replacement after working for a much smaller paper in Libby, Mont. As with most cost-saving corporate decisions, this one caused much grumbling among the worker bees in the newsroom.

Bunk was suspended earlier this month after he violated company policy by carrying a gun at work:

Missoulian editor addresses gun incident, awaits fate

Missoula's a great city, and I've enjoyed reading the Missoulian in the past ... it's been a good paper despite the best/worst efforts of Lee Enterprises. We'll see how this all shakes out.
 
Sees nothing wrong with it:

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It's odd that a constitutionally protected right like owning a gun could seem to cause so much trouble.
 
Lee Enterprises is a train wreck.

I owe a lot to the Missoulian. Sad for the people left that I know there.
 
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Owning a gun didn't cause trouble. Carrying a gun into a business that decided it doesn't want guns on its premises caused trouble. Those are not the same thing, even if people want to think they are.
 
Private business, which is part of the blessed free market, can do with it wants about allowing guns on its private property.
 
Owning a gun didn't cause trouble. Carrying a gun into a business that decided it doesn't want guns on its premises caused trouble. Those are not the same thing, even if people want to think they are.

Next you'll say that exercising your Thomas Jefferson-given right to free speech can get you fired.
 
My question is: How does Missoula support three newspapers? There were three mentioned in the second article linked. Are there more out there?
 
My question is: How does Missoula support three newspapers? There were three mentioned in the second article linked. Are there more out there?
The Missoula Independent is the "alternative" weekly paper; the Independent-Record (another Lee daily paper) is based in Helena.

I think the "Missoula Current" is a web-only news outlet.
 
My question is: How does Missoula support three newspapers? There were three mentioned in the second article linked. Are there more out there?

The Indy is a free weekly in Missoula, and the Current is an upstart website that is trying to find its footing in the community. The University also has a solid student-run publication that competes for clicks.
 
My question is: How does Missoula support three newspapers? There were three mentioned in the second article linked. Are there more out there?
Matt

I just realized that your job title now includes sports editor. According to Linkedin you have just been promoted..

Congratulations.
 
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