The Las Vegas Review-Journal has fascinated media-watchers for awhile now, since the relatively rapid sales from Stephens Media to New Media Investment Group, which put its operation under Gatehouse, to News + Media Capital Group, which turned out to be the Adelson family. Now come two stories in quick succession …

Congratulations to Steve Ranson, editor of the Lahontan Valley News, who recently was elected president of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors. Ranson is past president of the Nevada Press Association and a member of the NPA board. He’s been editor of the LVN for more than nine years. …

Every once in awhile, we like to remind readers of the glaring difference between general-circulation newspapers and government websites. Below is a piece from Public Notice Research Center that re-emphasizes the point: Just because information is available on government sites doesn’t mean anybody looks at it. In 2014, then-Indiana Governor Mike …

By Peter W. Wagner Whenever the conversation turns to printed newspaper vs. digital publication my comment is always the same: The delivery platform isn’t as important as the information being delivered. In an age when almost any obscure fact can be found on the Internet, it is locally written content …

(Updated with additional information on the emergency regulations adopted this week. A second update adds a warning about mailing permits.) Recreational marijuana is set to go on sale legally in Nevada on Saturday, which means we can also expect more advertising for dispensaries. How much, though, remains to be seen. …

By Kevin Slimp Convention season has been a lot of fun for me this year. I just returned from visits with associations across the Midwest U.S. and Western Canada and there is a definite intensity brewing among community newspaper publishers. There were more publishers wanting a private moment to discuss …

If you’ve volunteered to judge this year’s Nevada Press Association contest, here are detailed instructions. If you have questions, write to nevadapress@att.net or call us at 775-885-0866. Assign a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winner for each category* along with comments for each selection. You may also add comments about …

By Richard Karpel In a recent article in Columbia Journalism Review, Liena Zagare and Ben Smith argue that local governments should move public notice and other civic advertising from newspapers to local-news websites like their own BKLYNER. To buttress their case, they claim that a newspaper in their borough, the …

In Gov. Brian Sandoval’s explanation of why he vetoed SB384, which would have specified some open records for the Public Employees Retirement System while closing others, he accurately hit on key points we had argued in our opposition to the bill. “SB384 has merit,” the governor wrote. “Protecting public employees …

With just three days to go, the 2017 legislative session has reached the critical stage where most of the work is done, but major pieces of legislation still hang in the balance and the specter of a special session hung over the building on Thursday when a budget deal fell …