Yearly Archives: 2015

William Wright

As general manager, he helped build the Las Vegas Review-Journal into Nevada’s largest newspaper. The news-oriented businessman was a native Texan and journalism graduate of the University Missouri. An historian, he helped shape the Nevada State Museum system. From his obituary in the Las Vegas Sun, Aug. 20, 1998: A …

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Roy Vanett

Vanett could be called an unsung hero of print journalism in Nevada because most of his 34-year career at the Las Vegas Review-Journal was spent behind the scenes on editing desks. As a city editor, he offered jobs and guidance to scores of young reporters. As a copy editor, he …

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Sandy Thompson

Thompson, vice president and associate editor of the Las Vegas Sun before her death in a traffic accident in 2002, championed children’s rights in stories and in a weekly column that led to changes in the family court system. She joined the Sun in 1970 as a copy editor. Later …

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Charles Triplett

Charles Triplett

The second-generation owner/editor of the Wells Progress was a top prep baseball player, lifetime outdoorsman and community booster. Like his father, he was a Nevada Press Association president. The Triplett family owned the Progress for 57 years.

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Bert Selkirk

Known as the grandfather of The Record-Courier in Gardnerville, he was hired by the newspaper in 1893 as a printer and owned the paper from 1908-1944. During that time, The Record-Courier was regarded as a lively newspaper and one of the best weeklies in the far west.

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Mel Steninger

The third generation of the Steninger family to own the Elko Daily Press, he and partner Earl Frantzen acquired the newspaper in 1968. A Missouri journalism graduate, he served as editor. He successfully challenged the constitutionality of a state law requiring newspapers to file reports of advertising expenditures by legislative …

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David Osborn

David Osborn

Osborn became a top Donrey Media Group executive in 1992 after starting as an ad salesman with the company. During his 31-year career with Donrey, he was ad director and later publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal and also publisher of the Nevada Appeal. He began his career as sports …

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Robert Sanford

He was editor of the Fallon Eagle at age 23. He owned the Mason Valley News with Walter Cox and later was sole owner before selling the newspaper to his sons. A gutsy, smart, prize-winning editor, he was relentlessly competitive. He fought in the D-Day landing at Normandy. In 1997, …

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