NPA Member Spotlight features a series of monthly interviews with NPA members from the newsrooms and business operations of newspapers throughout the state. The interviews are conducted by Kim Palchikoff, an award-winning journalist who has written for the Las Vegas Sun, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times …
Read More »Dennis Myers dies after stroke
Longtime Nevada journalist and historian Dennis Myers died Monday after being taken off of life support at Renown Regional Medical Center. According to family members, he suffered a massive stroke the previous week. He was 70. Here are several remembrances from the Reno News & Review, where he had been …
Read More »How rural newspapers can win open-records battles
by Al Cross Small, rural newspapers can win open-records battles with state agencies and beat larger news outlets at covering big stories in their communities, says a journalist who spent most of his career at a metropolitan daily but has returned to the business of publishing a rural weekly. Les …
Read More »City of Reno to buy Reno Gazette-Journal building
After two years on the market, the building housing the Reno Gazette-Journal for more than 40 years is being sold to the city of Reno for new police headquarters. Here’s the RGJ’s story on the City Council’s action in July. At the same time the RGJ’s parent company put the …
Read More »Nevada newspapers sold to Pacific Publishing
CARSON CITY, Nev. — On Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, Pacific Publishing Company acquired from Sierra Nevada Media Group the assets of the Carson City Nevada Appeal, Gardnerville The Record-Courier, Fallon Lahontan Valley News, and Reno Northern Nevada Business View publications Nevada News Group, a division of Pacific Publishing, will be …
Read More »NPA Member Spotlight: Jeff Mullins, Elko Daily Free Press
NPA Member Spotlight features a series of monthly interviews with NPA members from the newsrooms and business operations of newspapers throughout the state. The interviews are conducted by Kim Palchikoff, an award-winning journalist who has written for the Las Vegas Sun, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times …
Read More »Five key focus points on the path to a great story
by Bart Pfankuch Anyone who has worked as a reporter or editor knows that it’s impossible to be fully engaged for eight (or 10) hours a day, five (or six) days a week. Journalism is a creative field that requires a lot of hard work, which tends to come in …
Read More »Senators introduce bill to reverse ‘confidentiality’ ruling
Media Coalition Statement on the Open and Responsive Government Act of 2019 WASHINGTON – Four senior senators introduced legislation today to reinstate significant limits on what commercial or financial information should be kept “confidential” and out of the public eye when submitted to the federal government. Introduced by Senators Charles …
Read More »The glue that holds the community together
By Peter W. Wagner Little Johnny Jones hit a home-run at his pee-wee baseball game last Friday, but most of the town won’t know about it until they see the story and photo when the town’s newspaper comes out next Wednesday. The school board, meanwhile, hired a new high-school principal …
Read More »To slow decline, newspaper print editions should act their age
by Matt DeRienzo Flat is the new growth, many would say, when it comes to declining volume of daily newspaper print circulation, especially as success has been found in raising prices among the most loyal subscribers. So maybe it’s time for publishers to radically lean in to serving and retaining …
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