After 47 years, the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza in Incline Village will publish its last stand-alone edition this week, part of a restructuring that will effect four Swift Communications newspapers in northern Nevada and California. Here’s Publisher Ben Rogers’s note on the changes. In essence, the Tahoe Daily Tribune, based …

By Bart Pfankuch We all know what they say about riding a bike, but I always wondered if the same holds true for writing. Over the past month, I’ve had the opportunity to find out. After spending the past 12 of my 28 years as a journalist in the editing …

The Nevada Appeal, the daily newspaper in Carson City, has announced appointment of a new publisher, Mick Raher, who previously served as director of sales. Brooke Warner, general manager of Sierra Nevada Media Group, had been filling both roles and will continue as general manager of the group, which includes …

By Steve Ranson Thirty years ago — Jan. 13, 1988— the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-3 decision that student journalists shed some of their constitutional rights at the school door, and school administrators could remove material they deemed inappropriate — or, in many cases, embarrassing to them personally. The …

by Kevin Slimp As I sit in my hotel room in Gloucester, Va., I can’t help but think about the 2018 version of our annual newspaper publisher’s survey from the Newspaper Institute. As is often the case, being with these editors, designers, sales staff and the publisher of the Gloucester …

Facebook — can’t live with it, can’t live without it. The social media platform’s recent announcement that it would be de-emphasizing news and returning to its roots of sharing posts among friends and family sent some shivers through news publishers large and small, but it shouldn’t have. If your strategy …

A paper mill in Washington state won a ruling today from the U. S. Department of Commerce that will lead to antidumping duties on paper imported from Canada, increasing the cost to newspapers in the United States. Here’s the story from The Daily News in Longview, Wash., where the mill …

There’s no shortage of advice to journalists out there, especially during the Trump era, on what role the free press should play. If a lot of it seems redundant, it is. Journalists should enlighten and inform. There is a place — on the opinion pages — for rumination and analysis, …

With the action last week by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, rescinding a memo from the Obama administration that had made federal prosecution of marijuana a low priority in states where recreational or medical use had become legal, the uncertainty of advertising again became an issue. We have described the situation …

We’re sorry to see The Mirror go. The Nye County newspaper, which began in 1983 as the irreverent Death Valley Gateway Gazette and was known as the Pahrump Valley Gazette in the 1990s, published its last edition on Dec. 21. Here’s the story in the Pahrump Valley Times. As the …