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Read More »2021 Awards of Excellence – Winning Entries
Here are the results of the 2021 Nevada Press Foundation Awards of Excellence, honoring the best in Nevada journalism, advertising, design and photography. The top link (“Awards Tabloid”) is a PDF of the 24-page tabloid featuring the complete results along with judges’ comments as well as photos and graphics from …
Read More »Nevada Press Foundation 2021 Awards of Excellence
SWEEPSTAKES Editorial Cartoon of the Year Las Vegas Sun Mike Smith Editorial of the Year Las Vegas Sun Ric Anderson Video of the Year Reno Gazette-Journal Jason Bean Photo of the Year Reno Gazette-Journal Jason Bean Podcast of the Year The Reno Slant Nathan Shoup, Adam Shoup Journalist of Merit …
Read More »NPA names two senators this year’s First Amendment Champions
Senators Marilyn Dondero-Loop and James Ohrenschall today were named First Amendment Champions by the Nevada Press Association for their work preventing a public notice mandate from being eliminated. In the last three weeks of the 2021 legislative session the Department of Administration introduced SB-445, a budget bill relating to state …
Read More »Five to be inducted into Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame
Five journalists who have had a lasting impact in Nevada will be inducted into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame later this month, the Nevada Press Association and Nevada Press Foundation announced today. Lucius Beebe, Ray Hagar, Frank X. Mullen, Lenita Powers and Barry Smith will be honored at a …
Read More »2021 Convention program
UPDATE SEPT 3: – Registration rates will increase by $15 per registration after midnight on Tuesday, Sept. 7. In addition, we will not be able to refund canceled registrations after that date. The final deadline for registration is Sept. 14. UPDATE AUG 31: – Here’s an up-to-date Schedule of Events …
Read More »Open government fares well in 2021 session
Advocates of open government had a very good session in the Nevada Legislature in 2021. Only two bills containing provisions the Nevada Press Association opposed became law and their impact on transparency will be relatively minor. The other bills we fought either died in committee or were amended to our …
Read More »Foundation puts HQ building up for sale
The Nevada Press Foundation (NPF) announced this week that it has listed for sale its headquarters building at 102 N. Curry St. in downtown Carson City. NPF has owned the Rinckel Mansion since 2000, when the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation made a grant to the 501(c)(3) charitable organization to purchase …
Read More »NPA Convention is Sept. 18 in Reno
Hold the date! The Nevada Press Association’s Annual Convention and Awards Banquet will be held Saturday, Sept. 18 at the Depot Craft Brewery Distillery in downtown Reno. We’ll meet for beers at the Reno Gazette Journal the Friday afternoon before the convention and will join together in a Reno Pub Crawl later …
Read More »NPA Board approves three new member publications
On Thursday, May 13, the Nevada Press Association Board of Directors held a meeting via Zoom and approved three new publications as affiliate members of the organization. By the end of the day, only two of them were still publishing. After its membership application was approved, the Mesquite Citizen …
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