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As an active member of the community, the Beacon sponsors local events and supports numerous nonprofits through its foundation. Flathead Beacon Productions also publishes Flathead Living, an award-winning quarterly lifestyle magazine. In , the media company debuted Glacier Journal , an annual magazine and guidebook devoted to the Crown Jewel of the Continent.

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Flathead 0. I was really happy about that. In the summer of , the Beacon hired a third reporter, Keriann Strickland, 22, a recent UM graduate who was doing an internship at the Billings Gazette. Strickland: I came up and met with Kellyn and Dan for my job interview at the office and everything went great. Am I allowed to drink? Reece: In the early days, we spent a lot of time trying to get to know the area. While we were all familiar with Montana, none of us really knew the Flathead well; none of us had lived here.

Strickland: A lot of what we did during those first few months was just explaining what we were while also trying to figure it out ourselves. It took us awhile to figure out what the important stories were here and who were the primary characters. It took time. We all worked every weekend to put out a tiny page paper that probably should have taken us three days, and even then, we were here late into the evening trying to finish the paper on deadline day.

Vizzutti: I think my favorite part of those early days was being able to explore the valley. Being able to drive around, get lost, and just check stuff out. Testa: Not long after we launched, Sen. We rushed back to the newsroom and I filed a story that night because it was news that could not wait.

We had to get it out there. Brown: The Democratic presidential primary was super long in , and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were actually campaigning in Montana. They were also agreeing to interviews with anyone, so Dan was able to talk to both of them in late May, right around the first anniversary of the paper. Testa: I think our one-year anniversary party was the night before — it was really fun, I think we even had remote control cars on a track for some reason — but I had my interview with Obama at 7 a.

I was so nervous about sleeping in and messing it up. We were able to get these two presidential candidates on the phone and that meant a lot to the newsroom. A year before, we had to explain to every single person we called what the Flathead Beacon was, and a year later, we were talking to presidential candidates. Reece: One thing that was really important was that we were all friends.

We always hung out together. It helped build a camaraderie that filtered through the product. When I think back at the first few years, I have a lot more memories outside the office hanging out with Testa, Lido, Kellyn and Keriann. But everyone was dedicated to this effort.

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