 Journalists were thus not allowed to develop and exercise their professional skills through their news judgment - lawyers and accountants made news judgments, not journalists — and were frozen for decades in this pre-professional model.By 1920, the Anaconda Company owned several of the states newspapers including the "Butte Post", "Butte Miner", "Anaconda Standard", "Daily Missoulian", "Helena Independent", and "Billings Gazette.