About The Missile Range
This is The Missile Range: an experimental blog run by me, Bryce Terry.
Mission Statement
As a journalist, there are some stories that come to my mind that are interesting, but that have no place in traditional outlets.
Sometimes they’re not fully formed, and would need a lot of digging and research to turn into battle-ready news stories. Sometimes they’re too opinionated, blurring the line between op-ed and straight reporting. Sometimes, they’re just too damn funny for a business magazine.
What I wanted was a testing ground where I could write freely and without expectations. A place where I could explore my own voice, and follow it in new directions. A place where I’m allowed to experiment - and allowed, occasionally, to fall flat on my face.
What you can expect from this blog as a reader is a (mostly) unfiltered library of stories, journal entries, research and tutorials. Cast-offs from larger stories, explorations of production techniques, inside-baseball reporting from a journalist just starting his career, and a menagerie of scraps that didn’t make the cut elsewhere.
Tags
To make exploring this library easier, I have implemented a system of type-indicators and tags.
Effort Tags
The top of every article contains a tag indicating the level of effort put into the piece - Field Notes, Field Survey, or Field Report.
Low-effort: Short scraps and observations, occasionally the seeds of a larger exploration.
Medium-effort: More depth or wider scope than notes, but with some questions left unanswered.
High-effort: Fully developed, deep dives with heavier research and/or some outside reporting.
Weapons-Free
Weapons Free is a tone indicator, reserved for hot-takes, gonzo-style pieces and other pieces that run a little hotter than the rest of the work on-site.
As a reader, you are encouraged to either not take these pieces seriously, or to take them very seriously. You’ll know which is which. I hope.
Other Tags
Most posts on this site will also feature topic tags (#example). You can click on these topic tags to open index pages for each tag, with every article on the site that shares that tag.
You can also filter by tag, type, or tone using the search function on the Feed page.
About the Name
The Missile Range is a project of Carrizozo Studios, a multimedia brand I founded in 2023. Carrizozo Studios was named after Carrizozo, NM, a small town in southern New Mexico with a rich history where I spent a lot of time growing up.
The Missile Range takes its name from the White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico, the proving ground where the first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945, and where the first American-built rockets and missiles were tested.
You can read more about the name of this project and the history that inspired it here.