The Montana Media Lab empowers youth in rural and Indigenous communities to find their voices. We teach teens how to tell stories about their own experiences using audio journalism. Along the way, students get a look inside the media landscape. Participants say the workshops help them feel confident in their abilities to separate fact from fiction on the internet.
We’ve worked with high schools in Lodge Grass, Ronan, Box Elder, Missoula and many other Montana communities. Interested in starting a youth voices audio storytelling project in your school? Get in touch!
Youth Projects
Apprentices report Blackfeet Tribal Business Council Candidate Profiles
Elections for Blackfeet Tribal Business Council will be held June 30, 2026. Local teens interviewed candidates for BTBC to create a resource for voters at the first Montana Media Lab Journalism Apprenticeship at Blackfeet Community College in Browning. Apprentices attended a one-week program, run by the Montana Media Lab at the University of Montana School…
Teens document 57th Kyiyo Powwow
During the Montana Media Lab’s annual High School Reporting Workshop at the UM School of Journalism, students from Polson and Browning worked alongside the Montana Media Lab and guest journalist instructors to hone their audio, print, and photojournalism skills. They worked with reporters from Montana Public Radio, KPAX News, and the freelance photojournalism world. Students…
Students in Pendleton, Oregon report on Basketball Against Alcohol and Drugs
On the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon, an annual basketball tournament draws spectators and youth athletes from all across the Northwest. But to many on the reservation and beyond, the impact of this tournament is bigger than basketball. Basketball Against Alcohol and Drugs, or BAAD, was first organized by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla…
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