MT43News – 3 Years Of Publishing
 | Author:
Victor Sample, MT43 News
Vic Sample: MT43 News Treasurer |
After the Broadwater Reporter stopped publishing, a group of local residents, led by Nancy Marks, had a series of meetings to discuss whether it was viable to start a new community newspaper. With the advent of the internet, newspapers have been struggling. It was not easy to decide that it was important for the community to have a newspaper, but 5 of us decided to move forward.
Nancy Marks, JB Howick, Jeff Ross, Rachel Brug and Vic Sample started publishing the newspaper on July 15, 2022. It was an interesting venture; none of us had any experience publishing a newspaper, we had no office and no business processes or software. JB had experience with Adobe InDesign and that was about it.
Three years later, we have published 156 editions of MT43News. That first year was interesting and we had two of the original founders leave as well as one employee. Currently, Nancy Marks, Linda Huth, Rachel Brug, Jeff Langlinais and Vic Sample are board members with Sarah Tallwhiteman as Layout and Ad editor and Brenda Phillips as office administrator are starting our 4th year of publishing.
We currently have 2 employees, Sarah and Brenda, and a host of people who contribute articles. We have published 156 issues of MT43News; over 5000 articles containing over 1.75 million words. We have search indexed all articles, providing over 500,000 terms that you can use to search articles on our website.
We have over 480 subscribers and climbing (slowly). We sell an average of a little over 200 newspapers a week at stores. While most subscribers are here in Broadwater County, we do have subscribers from all over the United States.
We have spent over $350,000; most of it locally.
Visit our website (https://mt43news.com) to see headline news, announcements, obituaries and recipes. Visit our Facebook page to keep current on announcements and events.
And, of course, SUBSCRIBE to MT43News to receive local Townsend, East Helena and Broadwater County news.
We look forward to another year of keeping you informed with local news!
