Sports editor admitted child porn user hired by Virginia newspaper

AP via Editor & Publisher: BOZEMAN, Mont. " A former Bozeman Daily Chronicle sports editor has been indicted on federal charges of receiving and possessing child pornography. Jim Cnockaert appeared Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Jeremiah Lynch in Missoula, where he pleaded not guilty. He was released on conditions.

• Cnockaert, 54, was fired from the Chronicle last spring after a co-worker told supervisors that she saw Cnockaert viewing child porn on a computer in the newspaper's advertising department. According to court records, Chronicle publisher Stephanie Pressly and managing editor Nick Ehli confronted Cnockaert,

• and he acknowledged that he had used the computer to view pornography.

Cnockaert joined the Chronicle as a sports writer and columnist in October 2006 and was promoted to sports editor in February 2008. He now works for a newspaper in Virginia."