Reno Gazette-Journal publisher John Maher, president of RGJ Media, is taking over as president of Oregonian Media Group, which operates The Oregonian newspaper and OregonLive website in Portland, the RGJ announced Thursday. Maher has been in Reno for five years. Before that he served as publisher of the Lincoln Journal …

By Chip Hutcheson President/National Newspaper Association and Publisher/The Times Leader, Princeton, KY I got the mail today. A couple of bills. A greeting card. Some catalogs. A newspaper. One package that my wife grabbed right away. (Wonder what that was?) Lately, it occurs to me how completely I take for …

I wish I had written this, because I agree 100 percent with every point. It’s MediaLife Magazine’s Seven Commandments of Community Newspapers, a quick read that either will reaffirm what you’re doing or open your eyes to the path back toward vitality. Go ahead and take the time to read …

Goodbye, Christine. That was the farewell when Winnemucca Publishing’s press made its final run earlier this month after more than 40 years of service. “We call it Christine, with much respect and trembling,” said Managing Editor Carmen Kofoed. “It’s both an impressively complicated machine and a simple design. It’s a …

Thanks to Riley Snyder for a bit of a history lesson when he fact-checked the Republican National Convention to confirm that Carson City is, indeed, still the capital of Nevada. That’s going to be the easiest fact-check he’ll ever do. In the meantime, though, Twitter managed to provide a spelling …

As far as I know, this is a first for one of our Journalist of Merit award-winners. Many have gone on to great things, but now Scott Neuffer, formerly a reporter for The Record-Courier in Minden-Gardnerville, has released an album. Scott won a Journalist of Merit award in 2011 from …

Newspaper Association Managers, the group representing press association directors across the United States and Canada, will hold its annual conference in Reno on Aug. 9-12. The group is meeting at the Peppermill to discuss issues ranging from legislation affecting newspapers to revenue-raising ideas. About 50 people are expected. The Nevada …

by Kevin Slimp Doggone that Joey Young. And doggone that Al Cross, too. While we’re at it, doggone the managing editor of that daily in Tennessee and the journalist from the metro paper who kept me up last  night. I should have known better. After several long days, punctuated by …

The Asian American Journalists Association will hold its annual convention at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from Aug. 10-13. Here’s more about the conference. The group has an impressive lineup of speakers from Public Radio, CNN, Politico and several other news outlets on the agenda. Las Vegas-area journalists can get …

The National Endowment for the Humanities now has 15 Nevada newspapers available in digitized editions, primarily from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. Jeffrey Kintop, administrator of the Nevada State Library and Archives, says “a special thanks should go to the Imaging and Preservation Services at the State Library, …