A bill draft from Nevada’s attorney general may propose stiffer penalties for public officials who violate the state’s open-meeting law. During a meeting Wednesday, the attorney general’s Open Meeting Law Task Force — of which I am a member — looked at several possible changes to the law, including raising …

A bipartisan group of congressional representatives told the International Trade Commission on Tuesday that tariffs imposed on newsprint from Canada were costing jobs and hurting small newspapers across the United States. Here’s a story from a Roll Call, and the AP story from the hearing. The Nevada Press Association has …

By Peter Wagner The biggest problem publishing newspapers today is public perception. Every newspaper, from the largest metro to the smallest family-owned community weekly, is judged by the actions of all the others.
  If a large chain decides to reduce the number of day they publish or the size of their …

(Editor’s note: Randy Van Dyne, executive director of the All Hazards Training Center at the University of Findlay, Ohio, spoke at the 2018 Ohio News Media Association convention on workplace security and wrote this column at ONMA’s request. One of the center’s specialties is training media outlets such as ABC …

Sierra Nevada Media Group, the Swift Communications division in Northern Nevada, announced today it was cutting the number of print issues at the Nevada Appeal in Carson City, The Record-Courier in Minden-Gardnerville, the Lahontan Valley News in Fallon and the Tahoe Tribune at South Lake. The Appeal, currently publishing six …

Tell the truth, and don’t be afraid. For anybody who has worked at a newspaper, the reasons behind Thursday’s shooting at The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md., likely brought to mind at least one nasty phone call or angry confrontation. It happens. Somebody didn’t like something printed in the paper. …

On July 17, the International Trade Commission will hear testimony on the preliminary tariffs on Canadian groundwood paper, from which newsprint is produced. The News Media Alliance has asked members of Congress to testify or submit comments for this hearing, and describe the impact of these tariffs on their local …

By Kevin Slimp Over the past week or so, I received an email from a publisher asking if I could send examples of community newspapers who are doing things right. His plan was to contact these publishers to learn if he could benefit from their experiences. I told him I …

Nevada Press Association board member Kelly Scott is leaving her post as executive editor of the Reno Gazette Journal for a new job as vice president of content at Alabama Media Group. Here’s the announcement today. Scott was president of the NPA board in 2016-17 and has served on the …

By Peter Wagner Local and even metro newspapers print very few new or used car display ads anymore. Automotive advertising, once a huge part of every paper’s revenue, has all but disappeared. Even those multi-page metro paper weekend automotive sections, packed full of car and truck feature stories and loaded …