Rollie Melton

Rollan Melton

Melton went from a printer’s devil at the Fallon Standard to the president of nationwide Speidel Newspapers, a group of 13 dailies. He was a member of the Gannett newspaper chain board for 20 years and also served as publisher of the Reno Gazette-Journal. He eventually returned to the Reno newspaper to write a column.

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