The Montana Standard

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The Montana Standard
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner Lee Enterprises
Founder Marcus Daly
PublisherDave Worstell
EditorThomas Martinez
Founded1889;136 years ago (1889)
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters
CountryUnited States
Circulation 9,837 Daily(as of 2023) [1]
OCLC number 11938457
Website mtstandard.com

The Montana Standard is a daily newspaper in Butte, Montana, owned by Lee Enterprises. It was formed from a merger of the Butte Miner and the Butte edition of the Anaconda Standard that was founded in Anaconda, Montana in 1889.

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History

The first issue of The Anaconda Standard published on September 4, 1889, in Anaconda, Montana. It was funded by Marcus Daly, owner of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Daly used the paper to promote his own causes and battle rival copper king William A. Clark, who published the Butte Miner, [2] along with rival Thomas H. Carter. [3]

Daly used the paper to further his political and financial reach. By 1920, the Anaconda Company owned several additional Montana newspapers including the Butte Post, Butte Miner, Daily Missoulian, Helena Independent, and Billings Gazette. [4]

After Clark's death, his heirs sold the company, including the Butte Miner, to Anaconda Co. [5] On September 12, 1928, the Standard merged its Butte edition with Butte Miner, based in nearby Butte, Montana, to form The Montana Standard. [6] The Anaconda paper continued for a few more years until it had become an insert in the Butte paper by 1933. [2]

In 1959, the Anaconda Company sold its eight Montana newspapers, including the Standard, to the Lee Newspaper Group. [7] The company change its name to Lee Enterprises in 1960. [8] Starting July 11, 2023, the print edition of the newspaper was reduced to three days a week: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Also, the newspaper transitioned from carrier to postal delivery. [9]

Awards

In 1971, under the leadership of Betty Danfield, the paper's women's section won the Penney-Missouri Award for General Excellence. [10]

References

  1. ↑ Lee Enterprises. "Form 10-K". investors.lee.net. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  2. 1 2 Gaskill, Bert (June 25, 1983). "Anaconda Standard was Daly's mouthpiece". The Montana Standard. Butte, Montana. p. 32.
  3. ↑ Morris, Patrick F. (1997). Anaconda, Montana: Copper Smelting Boom Town on the Western Frontier. Swann Pub. p. 78. ISBN   978-0-9657209-2-2 . Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  4. ↑ 1 Work, Clemens P. Darkest before Dawn: Sedition and Free speech in the American West. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005), 85.
  5. ↑ Clark, Jr., W.A. (August 22, 1928). "An Announcement To the Public". The Daily Northwest. Missoula, Montana. p. 1.
  6. ↑ "Butte Papers Make Changes In Operation | Miner Becomes Montana Standard, Anaconda Standard Leaves Butte Field". Great Falls Tribune. September 12, 1928. p. 9.
  7. ↑ "Eight Montana Newspapers Bought by Lee Organization". Livingston Enterprise. June 2, 1959. p. 1.
  8. ↑ "Lee Group Has Change In Name". Miles City Star. Miles City, Montana. Associated Press. September 30, 1960. p. 7.
  9. ↑ "Montana Standard expanding soon". Montana Standard. June 11, 2023. Retrieved July 19, 2023.
  10. ↑ "Penney-Missouri Honors to Women's Pages". The Kansas City Times. Kansas City, Missouri. Associated Press. December 25, 1971. p. 30. Retrieved December 30, 2018– via Newspapers.com.
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