Starting Sept. 5, the Las Vegas Review-Journal will join the ranks of newspapers charging for access to news on its website, the paper’s digital director announced today. “The Review-Journal will join the majority of large U.S. newspapers that now charge a minimal amount for access to digital content,” Review-Journal Publisher …

 By Peter Wagner We published at least three stories recently regarding older Sheldon citizens being scammed over the phone for thousands of dollars. But even though the first two crimes were printed in our Sheldon Mail-Sun in detail, a third individual was taken for soon after for $16,000. When asked …

The Boston Globe has started a campaign calling for newspapers across the country to publish editorials on Aug. 16 in defense of journalism. “The slander of ‘fake news’ has become Donald Trump’s most potent tool of abuse and incitement against the First Amendment, labeling journalists the ‘enemy of the American …

The U.S. Commerce Department’s decision last week to retain tariffs on newsprint from Canada was seen as something of a mixed bag, because the amount of the duties was reduced but they did remain in place. Here’s the opinion of the News Media Alliance, which continues to fight the tariffs …

By Bart Pfankuch A major goal of news reporting is to keep readers abridged of things, so it makes sense that uncovering and understanding trends should be part of any writer’s toolbox. Editors — and readers — love trend reporting. Editors puff up when they’re outlet is first to report …

David Beard’s Morning MediaWire from Poynter has these tips, and he promises more. Here’s the full column, where you can also sign up for the daily newsletter. From Paul Janensch: As an editor at four newspapers and an associate professor of journalism at Quinnipiac University, these were among the writing …

By Kevin Slimp I really didn’t expect to do much traveling this summer, but plans don’t always work out as expected and that certainly has been the case for me. The truth is I really love working with newspapers and when I get a call from a paper within a …

Why? When newspapers ask for records from government agencies — and then have to go to court to make sure Nevada’s public-records law is enforced — the question often is raised as to why such information needs to be laid out in the open. Much of the time, it’s obvious …

The Las Vegas Review-Journal announced today it will will incorporate its View neighborhood newspapers into its Thursday editions beginning July 26. Two pages of zoned local news will appear in the Review-Journal’s Life section every Thursday. View neighborhood news, including local crime maps and an overview of area road work, …