{"id":18075,"date":"2017-06-12T11:28:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T17:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=18075"},"modified":"2017-06-12T11:28:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T17:28:19","slug":"missoula-current-overhauls-website-marks-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2017\/06\/missoula-current-overhauls-website-marks-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Missoula Current overhauls website, marks success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11776\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Missoula-current.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a>We are happy to report that our partners in Western Montana, the people behind Missoula Current, are announcing all kinds of good news.<\/p>\n<p>In a column by founding editor Martin Kidston, we learn that Missoula Current has launched &#8220;a new and enhanced webpage offering a greater variety of stories, images and video.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was already a good website, but now it&#8217;s even better, and easier to navigate. And like the website you&#8217;re reading at the moment, it is free of the clutter and maddening distractions one has to endure to read news stories just about anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Kidston\u00a0also had this to say: &#8220;Last month\u2014in what marked a new Missoula Current milestone\u2014more than 60,000 unique readers logged on for a combined 104,000 pageviews. What\u2019s more, 29 new readers pledged their support with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/missoulacurrent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voluntary $5 monthly donation<\/a>, a move that enables us to contract more reporters to cover more news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You may recall that <a href=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/2017\/01\/independent-journalism-takes-small-step-forward-in-montana\/\">we announced our partnership<\/a> in January. Last Best News and Missoula Current regularly share stories that we think are of interest across the state, and we teamed up to produce <a href=\"http:\/\/missoulacurrent.us14.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=423f3e438325180a49040d217&amp;id=3d8a5b8527\">Montana Today<\/a>, \u00a0a daily email alert of news stories on both sites.<\/p>\n<p>Kidston and his crew are doing really fine work in Missoula. We congratulate them, and their readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to report that our partners in Western Montana, the people behind Missoula Current, are announcing all kinds of good news. In a column by founding editor Martin Kidston, we learn that Missoula Current has launched &#8220;a new and enhanced webpage offering a greater variety of stories, images and video.&#8221; It was already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4044,4045],"class_list":["post-18075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-martin-kidston","tag-missoula-current","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18076,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18075\/revisions\/18076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}