A veteran of more than 30 years of covering high-school, college and professional athletics, Sneddon was considered the dean of Northern Nevada sportswriters. He was well known on the national scene as a preeminent boxing writer, and his reporting for the Reno Gazette-Journal in the 1970s and 1980s on issues …

Morrow began her 29-year career at the Nevada Appeal in Carson City in 1962 and was the newspaper’s city editor for 20 years. Known as a stickler for accuracy on the editing desk, Morrow covered several high-profile stories, including the crash of the Paradise Airline gamblers’ special that killed 85 …

During a 30-year career with The Associated Press that ended in 2000, Macy spent 19 years as correspondent in Las Vegas, producing some 11,000 bylined stories and an estimated 15 million words. The University of Kansas journalism graduate became an AP legend when a pedestrian walkway collapsed at the Kansas …

Lerude began his journalism career as a reporter for The Associated Press fresh out of journalism school at the University of Nevada, Reno. He went on to become editor and then publisher of the Reno Gazette-Journal. He shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for a series of editorials that attacked …

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 …

A Tonopah native, Roberts went from high school newspaper editor to owner of the Tonopah Times-Bonanza and the Eureka Sentinel. He was an award-winning writer and a former president of the Nevada Press Association. He was known as a civic leader.

Publisher of the Elko Daily Free Press for 35 years, he was a fiery editor and civic leader who led the fight to incorporate Elko. He started his career as an apprentice printer in his home state of Iowa. He bought the Elko Free Press in 1910 and turned it …

This ex-reporter launched Reno’s first advertising agency in 1939. He was known as the “father of ideas,” and his creativity sparked the world’s first casino ad campaign (Harolds Club or Bust!).