Making sense of modern Bozeman – Montana’s ‘fancy place’

A personal anecdote, if you’ll indulge me for a moment —

A couple years back, in October 2014, I was living up north in Great Falls. I was working as a crime reporter at that city’s newspaper, the Tribune, part of newsroom that once won a Pulitzer Prize. I’d just quit.

I’d come to the city, Montana’s third-largest, as a fresh-faced Montana State graduate looking for a start in the journalism business. Chasing ambulances and felony cases across much of central Montana, I’d found it.

I hadn’t quite made it a year in the job when the Chronicle came knocking, looking for a city hall reporter down here in Bozeman. I told my editor I was jumping ship.

As word of my impending departure filtered its way around the office one afternoon, I found myself chatting with one of the Tribune’s veterans, one of those dying-breed types who’ve spent decades in newsrooms, in his case nearly all of it in Great Falls.

"Bozeman," he said. "That’s a fancy place."

It echoed, a little too true.

By Eric Dietrich Chronicle Staff Writer

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