If people call you crazy long enough, pretty soon you begin to question your sanity. For the past 20 years or so, the demise of print newspapers has pretty much been a foregone conclusion of anyone who was involved in digital delivery of news. As Kevin Slimp points out occasionally, …
Read More »Welcome to a couple of new editors
Belated welcomes to a couple of new editors — Caitlin Row, at the Tahoe Daily Tribune, and Henry Kingman, at Winnemucca Publishing — who have been on the job for about a month now. A Wisconsin native, Row was working for Swift publications in Colorado when she moved to South …
Read More »Four veteran reporters retiring from Reno Gazette-Journal
Update: Four reporters for the Reno Gazette-Journal are taking Gannett’s buyout package and will be retiring next week. Here’s the story in the RGJ. The four — Ray Hagar, Bill O’Driscoll, Susan Skorupa and Jeff Delong — all are longtime journalists in Northern Nevada. O’Driscoll has been with the …
Read More »Community service: When newspapers step up
Among all the individual awards at the annual Nevada Press Association convention, one of the most important and prestigious of our honors sometimes gets overlooked. The award — for community service — recognizes the effort that newspapers and their staffs make to be leaders and contributors, whether it be for …
Read More »Showdown at the Tesla factory
So far, we have two wildly different accounts of the confrontation at Tesla’s gigafactory which led to the arrest of a Reno Gazette-Journal photographer. First came the RGJ’s story on the arrest of Andy Barron on Oct. 9. It was followed four days later by a blog post by Tesla …
Read More »Confidentiality: The curtain behind which institutions hide
Here’s what I hate — I said in my best Andy Rooney impersonation. Ogus and his successor Craig Evans, the interim chair of the Berkeley math department, said confidentiality rules prevented them speaking publicly about Coward’s case and referred queries to the university’s spokesperson. And … In a statement Janet …
Read More »Listening to the police scanner
For the better part of 30 years, I had a police scanner sitting on my desk. A black box with a speaker and an antenna, its row of red lights cycled endlessly through the channels of various police, fire and emergency departments. Depending on the city where I sat in …
Read More »New historical marker for Rinckel Mansion
The Yesco sign company erected a new historical marker on Wednesday at the Rinckel Mansion, home of the Reynolds Press Center and NPA. The marker is the work of the State Historic Preservation Office, which has been on a mission since the Nevada sesquicentennial to update markers across the state. …
Read More »NPA board expands to include associate member
For the first time, associate members of the Nevada Press Association will have a seat on the board of directors. Before the change was made at the NPA’s general meeting on Oct. 3, associate members — those which do not hold a publications mailing permit and don’t qualify to publish …
Read More »Can journalists use drones?
On Saturday, a panel of experts told Nevada Press Association members everything they needed to know about using drones for newsgathering. Well, they may not have covered everything. But Mark Hinueber, counsel for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Assemblyman Eliot Anderson, whose drone bill went into effect the day before, and …
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