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Read More »Monthly Archives: August 2015
Stepping up for freedom of information
It’s heartening to see online media stepping up for freedom of information on the federal level, and I’m hopeful the efforts eventually will carry through to state and local governments. This piece in Columbia Journalism Review details several efforts by unlikely newsrooms — Buzzfeed? Vice? — to invest in Freedom …
Read More »Journalists learn not to be intimidated
Journalists learn early on not to be intimidated. It’s necessary to almost any beat. Sportswriters deal with coaches and athletes who are used to getting their own way. Business tycoons often are taken aback by anyone who questions them. Police, attorneys and judges frequently use intimidation in their line of …
Read More »Specialized publications
News services The Associated Press Organizations NV Energy Nevada Policy Research Institute Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism Individuals John Barrette Marilyn Newton Interested in joining? CARSON CITY County: Carson City Battle Born 2460 Fairview Drive Carson City, NV 89701 Telephone: (775) 887-7250 FAX: (775) 887-7256 Publisher: Bill Burks Editor: …
Read More »How to measure newsroom productivity
by Ken Blum Dear Black Inkling Readers, I need to lead this column with an important note. And that note is: no, I am not implying that reporters at community newspapers are loafers or laggards. I spent the first ten years of my career in community journalism as a writer …
Read More »EPA releases records at 10:30 pm Friday
I guess you could call it standard operating procedure. When there is bad news, announce it late Friday afternoon. That’s in the playbook of every sleazy, dishonest flack in the PR universe. So what does it say about the EPA that it ended its foot-dragging on records about the Animas …
Read More »Review-journal editor on reader reaction to redesign
All I see in Carson City is the Las Vegas Review-Journal online edition, so I can’t comment on the specifics of the paper’s new look. I have been through a few redesigns, however, and i know most readers in a few months won’t even remember what the old paper looked …
Read More »Community comes to aid of newspaper
“If you do not already subscribe to your local paper, do it.”
Read More »Officially secret
Here’s what irks me when government officials argue they have to keep public information secret, such as Sparks is doing with marijuana licensees. They never even notice they share it with other governments. They only want to keep it from us. The marijuana regulation specifies how the state must share …
Read More »Better choices for time capsules
It does seem rather odd to put newspapers in time capsules. I mean, unless they’re sealed for thousands of years, you could just look up what was happening around that time by visiting the local library. Libraries are the opposite of a time capsule. Anyway, the director of the Nevada …
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