Pat Bridges, publisher for the Record-Courier in Douglas County, retired on April 19 after six years with the newspaper. Here’s editor Kurt Hildebrand’s column on Pat’s retirement and career, which was with Carson City-based Swift Communications over the past decade. He was a sales representative for the Tampa Tribune, worked …
Read More »First Amendment forum coming April 25
The Reynolds School of Journalism will host a First Amendment forum featuring Lucy Dalglish and Trevor Timm starting at 7 p.m. April 25 in the theater of the Joe Crowley Student Union on the campus of the University of Nevada in Reno. Dalglish, a media lawyer and dean of the …
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Fadel: I just keep doing my job
Leila Fadel had just moved to Las Vegas when breaking news interrupted her regular beat. In fact, it was the biggest breaking news ever to hit Las Vegas — the Oct. 1 massacre at the Route 91 Harvest music festival, when a gunman murdered 58 people and left another 851 …
Read More »Territorial Enterprise nominated as historic site in journalism
The Territorial Enterprise building in Virginia City has been nominated for recognition by the Society of Professional Journalists as a Historic Site in Journalism. The nomination was submitted last month by Joey Lovato, a reporter and podcast producer, as an independent study project for the journalism school at the University …
Read More »Mini stories equal maximum payoff
By Bart Pfankuch When I returned to full-time reporting and writing three months ago, I had to skip the warm-up period. As the lone writer for a new non-profit, public-service news service, my task was to immediately develop enterprise material of statewide interest in South Dakota. It hasn’t been easy, …
Read More »Attempts to eliminate newspaper ads aren’t working
By Peter Wagner Newspapers and shopper publications in Iowa and surrounding states are again carrying a major grocery chain insert that pulled out of all papers the end of December. I am purposely leaving out the name of the chain. The return of the insert is good news for us …
Read More »Nevada court rules for open records on personal devices
Nevada’s Supreme Court solidly reinforced the state’s public records law by ruling Thursday that government officials can’t hide the public’s business on personal cell phones and computers. In siding with the Comstock Residents Association, the court said: “The use of private entities in the provision of public services must not …
Read More »If print disappears, don’t assume online edition will remain
By Susan Rowell President of the National Newspaper Association There are two things you need to know about newspapers. Newspapers are important to community life and democracy. Always have been. We at the National Newspaper Association think it is important for all sorts of newspapers to survive for the sake …
Read More »Moyer named publisher at Review-Journal
Keith Moyer has added publisher to his title at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, after the retirement of Craig Moon, according to the newspaper’s story. Moyer has been editor-in-chief since coming to the Review-Journal two years ago, not long after Moon was named publisher during the shift to ownership of the …
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