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The Nevada Press Association elected a new president and two new board members at its 2020 Annual Meeting, held Oct. 15 via videoconference. It was the first time in the history of the organization the meeting wasn’t conducted in person.
As expected, Reno Gazette Journal Executive Editor Brian Duggan (pictured above) was elected president for 2020-21. “I’m honored to lead the Nevada Press Association board of directors over the next year,” Duggan said. “We have a lot to accomplish, from ensuring a positive outcome for Nevada’s press outlets in the upcoming legislative session to finding more ways to help our members navigate the media landscape in a tumultuous time.”
Former president Noah Cusick, vice president of niche publications, Las Vegas Review-Journal, was automatically appointed Immediate Past President.
Nancy Streets, advertising director, Elko Daily Free Press; Glenn Cook, executive editor, Las Vegas Review Journal; and Scott Sibley, publisher, Nevada Legal News, were the other members reelected to the board in leadership positions. Streets and Cook were elected First Vice President and Second Vice President, respectively, and Sibley was elected Treasurer. All of the officers were elected to one-year terms.
Four members ran for three open at-large positions on the board. After ballots were counted, NPA Executive Director Richard Karpel announced Sherm Frederick, president of Battle Born Media; Amanda Burden (pictured at left), editor/publisher of edible Reno-Tahoe; and Dana Gentry (pictured below), senior reporter, Nevada Current, were elected for two-year terms.
Frederick, a former NPA president and member of the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame, was reelected to his seat. Burden and Gentry are both new board members. Burden is the first magazine publisher and Gentry is the first representative of an online-only news outlet to serve on the NPA Board. They were eligible to run for board seats as the result of a bylaw amendment approved at last year’s Annual Meeting.
Karpel also gave a financial report during the meeting. He said the association ran a deficit of $26,000 for the fiscal year that ended April 30, and that its financial condition hasn’t improved in the current fiscal year. He said NPA would soon roll out a new statewide advertising program focused on quarter-page and half-page ads. The short-term goal of the program is generate enough income to sustain NPA operations; the long-term objective is to provide additional revenue for member newspapers.