About
Eve Byron is a longtime award-winning journalist who worked at newspapers in Colorado and Montana. After 30 years of writing the first draft of history, she switched hats and today is the Public Information Officer for the Montana Historical Society. Today, she works with journalists across Montana to help provide perspective of the day's current events. For example, she recently wrote an article about the 1918 pandemic and its parallels to the present-day COVID-19 outbreak. Byron also manages social media for the MHS, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Byron is a Minnesota native who moved West as soon as she could. She graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.S. in journalism, and sat on the board that reconstructed its journalism program. She currently is a board member of the Montana Outdoor Hall of Fame and the Burton K. Wheeler Center in Bozeman.