ALABAMA: Bunk succeeds Sherry Devlin, who has served as editor of the Missoulian since 2004. Devlin was a reporter at the Missoulian, Spokesman Review and Associated Press for 25 years before that, and will continue at the Missoulian as an associate editor.Bunk comes most recently from Libby, where he was editor and publisher of the Western News, a twice a week newspaper.
Before that, he founded a media company in Bismarck, North Dakota, called the Great Plains Examiner that published a 10,000 circulation monthly magazine with a daily news website. He was managing editor of the Arizona Capitol Times and assistant metro editor at the East Valley Tribune in Phoenix.
As a reporter, Bunk wrote for the Oakland Tribune’s ANG Newspapers subscription service, covering major corporations and the Bay Area economy. He also reported for the Fairfield Daily Republic, covering city and county government, the Kalispell Daily Inter Lake, Mitchell Daily Republic in South Dakota and Mandan News in North Dakota.
