Editor in Chief
Courtney Lowery
Writer, hiker, farmer's daughter, sometimes guitar player, lover of a good whiskey on the rocks.
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| Chief Cook & Bottle Washer. Photo by Matthew Frank of Frankly, Studios. | |
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Courtney is a former Lee Newspapers and Associated Press writer and editor who has spent much of her writing career covering politics, the Western landscape and all issues in which the two intersect.
As a farm kid in Central Montana, Courtney saw early on the power journalism could have in connecting people (even those isolated on the plains) and that is what drove her to journalism in her teens and continues to keep her in the business now. (Well, that and a failed attempt as a singer/songwriter.)
A University of Montana graduate and unassuming child of the new media world, Courtney also teaches the Rural News Network class at the University of Montana, a project that aims to connect UM students with rural Montana and get them up to speed with the online medium while helping small towns revive their newspapers online. After a tiring semester for six brave students, the first town site in the Rural News Network was born in Courtney's hometown: The Dutton Country Courier.
