Tom Tait was a Las Vegas-based Associated Press news editor who hired reporters, mentored writers and guided coverage in Nevada and surrounding states from 2000 to 2022. He retired in June 2022 as Southwest AP news editor for Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada after 45 years in journalism in California …
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Jane Ann Morrison worked for four newspapers over 48 years and 44 of those years she was based in Las Vegas, reporting on everything from the mob to gaming and politics. She arrived in Las Vegas in 1976 to work for the Review-Journal, where she reported on-and-off for 38 years. …
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It’s painful to watch, yes. But as journalists it’s impossible to look away. I’m talking about the latest turmoil at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where three-decade columnist (and multiple NPA award-winner) John L. Smith has resigned. As I said this morning on Joe Schoenmann’s show on KNPR, “I’m sure they …
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John Cahlan, who started in the newspaper business by hawking copies on street corners as a boy, rose to become editor of two of the state’s largest and oldest newspapers. His earliest renown, however, was as a sportscaster. As a student at the University of Nevada in Reno, he announced …
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Testimony on two bills requiring the use of body-cams by Nevada police departments showed how much of the devil is going to be in the details. One bill, AB162, comes from Assemblyman Harvey Munford. The other, SB111, from Sen. Aaron Ford would apply only to Clark and Washoe counties, but …
Read More »The sale of Stephens Media, owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, was one of those surprises that most saw coming. As leadership changed and strategies unfolded, it certainly looked like the company was positioning itself to be attractive to a buyer. New Media Investments has been buying or investing in …
Read More »The Las Vegas Review-Journal was past due in taking down its reader comments yesterday. Frankly, they had become worse than a joke. They were the drunk uncle at a family reunion who didn’t care that we ignored his racist, homophobic, sexist rants. Somebody needed to shut him up. It has …
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