This is the next in a series on newer members of the Nevada Press Association since non-newspapers were granted full membership in 2019. Hugh Jackson, editor of the Nevada Current, has been around long enough to know a good lede when he reads it. “This is the most important thing …
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Five journalists who have had a lasting impact in Nevada will be inducted into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame later this month, the Nevada Press Association and Nevada Press Foundation announced today. Lucius Beebe, Ray Hagar, Frank X. Mullen, Lenita Powers and Barry Smith will be honored at a …
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Lenita Powers may not have become a mainstay of Northern Nevada journalism for more than four decades were it not for the inspiration of a high-school counselor who told her she wasn’t “college material” despite a straight-A average. That ticked her off, so when she graduated from Sparks High School …
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Barry Smith made his mark in Nevada journalism as both an editor and an advocate. He began his journalism career in 1977 as a reporter for the State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill. He also worked for more than 16 years in Colorado — ten years as a reporter and city …
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Ray Hagar got his first job in journalism at the age of 17 and is still going strong 50 years later. Born in Reno and raised in Sparks, he has spent most of his career covering sports and politics in Northern Nevada and making himself one of the most widely-respected …
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Frank X. Mullen contains multitudes. Known primarily as an investigative reporter, he also is an author, historian, actor and university journalism instructor. Born in Queens and raised in New Jersey, Mullen came west to earn a journalism degree from Metropolitan State University of Denver. In 1979, he helped co-found The …
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Lucius Beebe lived in Nevada for only ten years, but he accomplished enough in that decade to qualify for more than one Silver State Hall of Fame, helping to restore Virginia City and resuscitate the historically significant Territorial Enterprise newspaper. Beebe was already an accomplished cultural critic and journalist when …
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This is the next in a series of stories on some of the diverse publications that have become members of the Nevada Press Association since non-newspapers were granted full membership in 2019. What do you do when your clients are ordered closed by the governor as a result of a …
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This is the next in a series of profiles about news organizations that have been admitted into the Nevada Press Association since non-newspapers were granted full membership in 2019. The Sierra Nevada Ally isn’t trying to be all things to all people. Instead, its founders are working to make it …
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The Nevada Press Foundation (NPF) announced this week that it has listed for sale its headquarters building at 102 N. Curry St. in downtown Carson City. NPF has owned the Rinckel Mansion since 2000, when the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation made a grant to the 501(c)(3) charitable organization to purchase …
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