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The Review’s use of AI
‘Too Much Information’ By Kasey Edge-Faur Anaconda Review Editor A few weeks ago, our student reporter Evann Johnson wrote a well-researched column about AI in journalism, specifically concerns surrounding its use and potential impacts. That coupled with increased talk of generative AI data centers in the county, inspired me to write a bit about the Anaconda Weekly Review’s use of AI in the context of our design, writing and editing processes. At the Review, we don’t use generative AI in our design, writing and editing processes. We don’t use it to lay out the paper, design ads, write our articles,…
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Coming together, as a community, in a community garden
‘Garden of Readin’ By Mike Noblin Retired Horticulturist Ever since my first trip to Montana as an early teen, growing up I have had a special closeness to this state. I loved the scenery, the wildlife, the clear, running streams and the fresh mountain air. I never really gave it a second thought that I would ever live here, or let alone, retire here. Now that I have been a resident for nine years, I can see and feel another special feature, the people. Spending the last 30+ years living in Florida, running my chemical, lawn and indoor pest control…
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The thanks I owe the most
‘Beyond the Beat’ By James S. Rosien Anaconda Review Publisher For the past three weeks our editor, Kasey, has been diligently putting together what in the print industry is called a “double truck” – the two pages facing each other in the middle of the paper that are designed to be read as a single sheet rather than separately – which has provided a space for covering some of the things we missed out on this past summer by not having a newspaper. We’d planned to have one more this week to cover the back half of August and the…
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The time to vote is now
‘Too Much Information’ By Kasey Edge-Faur Anaconda Review Editor Some readers may notice something in this issue that wasn’t in previous issues. That’s right, election questionnaires. When James was looking to start up the Anaconda Weekly Review, one thing he really wanted, even though he knew the deadline was incredibly tight, was to get it started by the end of September so that we were running election-related articles before absentee ballots were mailed out. This is because he knows how critical it is to bring as much awareness as possible to elections in an ample amount of time before the…
Read MoreNew snow, new perspective
‘Too Much Information’ By Kasey Edge-Faur Anaconda Review Editor I’ve never been the biggest fan of snow. Give me rain, give me sunshine, but snow? No way. It’s freezing, it’s slippery and I’m clumsy so I always fall on it, and I never quite got the hang of winter sports like skiing and ice skating (although I am planning on trying those this year). This year, though, when I woke up Saturday morning to inches of fresh snow, I was giddy. Not for the potential downed power lines, not for hazardous road conditions, and definitely not because I was prepared…
Read MoreNew side of the news biz
‘Beyond the Beat’ By James S. Rosien Anaconda Review Publisher It’s hard to believe, but we’re already three weeks into our new newspaper project – hard to believe mostly because of how much has been crammed into those few weeks, so it feels both much faster and yet much longer as well. Much like how we try to cram as much about the happenings of our town as possible into these 8.5-inch by 11-inch pages – and hey, it’s only Tuesday (well it was when I wrote this), so there’s doubtless going to be much more to be done in…
Read MoreAn emotional return to my birthplace
By Michelle Beese On December 25th, 1949, I entered this world in Anaconda, Montana, the sixth of 10 children born to Horace and Helen Dwyer. On August 7th, 2026, I returned to Anaconda for Smeltermen’s Day. I went to the Welcome Center to pick up the historical walking tour of Anaconda map and had the honor of meeting Kathy Ilene Lunde. Kathy was talking to a woman and had a book in her hand. There were more books on the table, and I picked up Echoes of Anaconda and started looking through it. When Kathy finished her conversation, I asked…
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How AI is impacting the world of journalism
By Evann Johnson AJSHS Student Reporter The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence has raised ethical concerns regarding effects the machines have on media, news, and journalism altogether. In today’s political climate, news outlets are facing challenges to maintain trust and credibility as consumers become hyperaware of potential bias from their news sources. Unfortunately, this has caused people to turn to social media as a form of their daily news despite the potential inaccuracy of the content. Creators often grab attention with an inflated or conflating headline, which can skew perspective and make situations seem bigger than what they are. Some…
Read MoreThree cheers for volunteers
‘Too Much Information’ By Kasey Edge-Faur Anaconda Review Editor When I interned for the Boulder Monitor in 2019, the town of Boulder was seeing a problem with its beloved town events getting smaller or petering out entirely because they were entirely volunteer-run, and many of the volunteers who had been sustaining them for years were getting older and becoming unable to continue working in the same capacity they had been. Meanwhile, younger generations were stepping up in smaller numbers than the ones before them, leaving an increasingly noticeable gap. During my time living in Anaconda, I’ve thought of that story…
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The Not-So-Great Dictator
‘Beyond the Beat’ By James S. Rosien Anaconda Review Publisher This month marks 86 years since the release of one of the most important films ever made, Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator,” which besides being a ripping satire of Hitler, Mussolini, Nazis and fascism writ large, was capped by one of the greatest speeches ever filmed. I heartily recommend everyone check it out on YouTube. But that’s not what I’m writing about today, not directly anyway, though it is what I immediately thought of when I checked the Googlebox this morning and saw in blaring headlines that all-world soccer player…
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