Tom Tait was a Las Vegas-based Associated Press news editor who hired reporters, mentored writers and guided coverage in Nevada and surrounding states from 2000 to 2022. He retired in June 2022 as Southwest AP news editor for Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada after 45 years in journalism in California …

Steve Carp has covered many of the biggest events and personalities in Las Vegas sports history. For the Las Vegas Sun, he reported on the University of Nevada-Las Vegas mens’ basketball team’s national championship run in 1990 and return to the Final Four in 1991, He was the Las Vegas …

Jane Ann Morrison worked for four newspapers over 48 years and 44 of those years she was based in Las Vegas, reporting on everything from the mob to gaming and politics. She arrived in Las Vegas in 1976 to work for the Review-Journal, where she reported on-and-off for 38 years. …

Bob Brown made his most significant contribution to Nevada journalism as owner and publisher of the North Las Vegas Valley Times from 1973 to 1984.  He bought the paper from former Las Vegas Sun managing editor Adam Yacenda and two years later turned the weekly paper into a daily. At …

Updated Sept. 20 Registration is now open for the 2022 Nevada Press Foundation Annual Convention and Awards Banquet.  The event will be held at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino. It will begin with an informal gathering at 6pm on Friday, Sept. 23, at Nevada Brew Works in the …

The Humboldt Sun, Battle Mountain Bugle, and Lovelock Review-Miner will combine print editions under a single name — the Great Basin Sun — according to a statement issued last week by Nevada News Group owner and publisher Peter Bernhard. Bernhard blamed printing costs and production schedules for the change, which …

The Nevada Press Association Board of Directors approved three membership applications at its meeting last week, designating two newspapers and a local news website as affiliate members with full voting rights in the association. The two newspapers are fairly recent start-ups publishing in rural areas of the state. The local …

Submitted by The Associated Press Tom Tait, the Las Vegas-based Associated Press news editor who hired reporters, mentored writers and guided coverage in Nevada and surrounding states for more than two decades, has announced his retirement. Tait (picture at left) is Southwest news editor for Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. …

The Nevada Press Association Board of Directors last week approved a proposal to change the trade association’s membership dues schedule in 2022. Under the new schedule, Regular Member and Affiliate Member dues rates will be based on newsroom Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs) rather than circulation or readership. FTEs measure an organization’s …