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Read More »Three NPA-member newspapers consolidate
The Humboldt Sun, Battle Mountain Bugle, and Lovelock Review-Miner will combine print editions under a single name — the Great Basin Sun — according to a statement issued last week by Nevada News Group owner and publisher Peter Bernhard. Bernhard blamed printing costs and production schedules for the change, which …
Read More »AP’s Nevada news editor retires
Submitted by The Associated Press Tom Tait, the Las Vegas-based Associated Press news editor who hired reporters, mentored writers and guided coverage in Nevada and surrounding states for more than two decades, has announced his retirement. Tait (picture at left) is Southwest news editor for Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. …
Read More »COVID layoff spawns fledgling newspaper in Ely
When Teresa Stewart was laid off from The Ely Times during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, she took a job at a local clinic. She worked there five months before realizing she missed the hustle and bustle of newspaper work. But in a small town, there aren’t many …
Read More »Three news organizations vie for readers in Mesquite
Kirk Kern knows a thing or two about moving on. Throughout his long newspaper career, he has never been without a job. But his position as chief operating officer at Battle Born Media and publisher of the company’s Mesquite Local News was eliminated in March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic …
Read More »National Newspaper Week 2021
The 81st annual National Newspaper Week is a recognition of the service of newspapers and their employees across North America and is sponsored by Newspaper Association Managers. Visit www.nationalnewspaperweek.com for more content, including editorials, cartoons and ads that you can run during National Newspaper Week and in the weeks that follow. …
Read More »How to grow your coverage of agriculture
By Bart Pfankuch Depending on where you live and work as a journalist, there are two basic levels of importance when it comes to coverage of the agriculture industry: “very important” or “extremely important.” How and where food is grown or raised, how it is processed and transported, what it …
Read More »New revenue resource available to NPA members
The Newspaper Association Managers’ Relevance Project has released its extensive Revenue Resource 2020 to assist newspapers in aiding businesses of all sorts during the problematic pandemic. “Our goal is to keep expanding this new resource,” said Steve Nixon, NAM president. “We appreciate our associations’ support of The Relevance Project and …
Read More »Labor’s new rule on overtime
The Department of Labor published its final rule on Sept. 27, 2019, increasing the threshold used to determine the exempt status of white-collar employees under the minimum wage and overtime rules of the Fair Labor Standards Act. While the new threshold in the final rule may require some small market …
Read More »As the newspaper industry consolidates, printing options dwindle
By Teri Saylor for the Nevada Press Association and the National Newspaper Association Despite having to find a new printer for his newspapers on short notice, Kirk Kern (photo below) considers himself lucky. Last July, Kern, the chief operating officer of Battle Born Media in Boulder City, Nevada received a …
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