By Peter W. Wagner There’s times when producing a community paper can seem like being in a circus. One moment you are the acrobat balancing your way across a high wire and the next you’re the featured clown. I learned, while attending seminars in Massachusetts recently, that the small tent …
Read More »Bob Felten Scholarship Endowment established
Now an emeritus faculty member, Professor Bob Felten taught and mentored students in the Reynolds School of Journalism for nearly 30 years. He served on the boards of the American Marketing Association and the American Advertising Federation, advocating for progress within the industry and acting as a bridge between these …
Read More »NPA Member Spotlight: Hali Bernstein Saylor, Boulder City Review
Hali Bernstein Saylor, Boulder City Review Tell us about yourself. I was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California and graduated from California State University, Northridge with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, I ultimately landed in the Las Vegas area in 2001. My husband and I …
Read More »Traditional network stations don’t usually report their lower viewership.
By Peter Wagner I’m amazed at how the traditional, over-the-air, television networks consistently report that “newspapers are dead.” Their anchors report that story time and again, but never report their own losses in viewership. The most recent example took place on the Oct. 6, 2019, broadcast of CBS News Sunday …
Read More »Labor’s new rule on overtime
The Department of Labor published its final rule on Sept. 27, 2019, increasing the threshold used to determine the exempt status of white-collar employees under the minimum wage and overtime rules of the Fair Labor Standards Act. While the new threshold in the final rule may require some small market …
Read More »How to improve meeting coverage
Moving from routine to highly relevant By Bart Pfankuch This column is aimed at every single journalist working anywhere in the world now and in the future. That’s a big bill to fill, but with tips to improve coverage of any type of meeting, the following concepts apply both to …
Read More »NPA Member Spotlight: Mike Smith, Las Vegas Sun
Las Vegas Sun political cartoonist Mike Smith has been a professional artist for more than 30 years. In addition to drawing a daily cartoon five days a week for the Sun, Smith is a syndicated cartoonist for King Features Syndicate. Approximately 270 newspapers nationwide distribute his work. He is also the author …
Read More »University of Florida launches $25,000 Collier Prize for state government accountability
Awards program accepting entries Gainesville, Fla. — The Collier Prize for State Government Accountability is now accepting entries for the $25,000 prize, one of the largest journalism prizes in the nation. Information about the prize and how to submit entries is available on the Collier Prize site. The University of …
Read More »National Newspaper Week coming Oct. 6-12
The theme for this year’s National Newspaper Week, Oct. 6-12, is “Think F1rst — Know Your 5 Freedoms” and encourages readers to cherish all of the guarantees of the First Amendment. Nevada newspapers will find several ideas for localizing their Newspaper Week efforts at this site hosted by Newspaper Association …
Read More »NPA proposes historic changes to membership rules
The Nevada Press Association Board of Directors has proposed amending the organization’s governing documents to allow online news sites, magazines and other types of news publishers in the Silver State to apply for full membership rights in the association. Under NPA’s current rules, only newspapers that are statutorily authorized to …
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