Allow me to expand a bit on Eric Hartley’s story in the Review-Journal about Henderson’s short-lived policy prohibiting him from taking pen and paper with him to watch police dash-cam videos. Eric quoted me accurately, but of course he didn’t include everything I said. Like, ‘This is bull—-.’ I doubled down …
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This year marks the 75th anniversary of National Newspaper Week (NNW), October 4-10, 2015. This observance underscores the impact of newspapers to communities large and small. Your NNW content kit contains editorials, editorial cartoons, promotional ads and more that are available for download at no charge to newspapers across North America. …
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Sweepstakes Winners Story of the Year John Przybys Las Vegas Review-Journal Reaching Out With Love Story of the Year is supposed to tell “a compelling story and hold the reader’s interest.” This story is not just compelling, it is inspiring. A remarkable family responding to extraordinary challenges with creativity, love …
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Lyda was editor of The Record-Courier in the late 1970s when the Gardnerville newspaper grew in size and achieved critical acclaim. She began working part-time at the newspaper and later reluctantly accepted editorship. Although she didn’t possess the temperament of a hard-bitten journalist, she took tough editorial stands.
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We needed to pause for a minute to thank Marie Wujek, who was publisher of the Pahrump Valley Times and Tonopah Times-Bonanza for a decade and a member of the NPA board for a good part of that time, for her contributions to the association and to the newspaper industry …
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With Chris Sheerin, he co-owned the Elko Daily Free Press from 1945-1968. The University of Nevada, Reno graduate supervised production at the Elko paper. The photo at right is from Northeastern Nevada Museum in Elko and is dated circa 1929. The photo above is cropped from this picture (below) taken …
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David W. Sanford was the youngest of three family members to build the rural newspaper powerhouse Mason Valley News – “The Only Newspaper That Gives A Damn About Yerington” – and then continued his journalism career when the family sold the three-newspaper corporation to Gannett/Reno Gazette-Journal. David did just about …
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Brian Greenspun was groomed to be his parents’ successor in running the Las Vegas Sun, the feisty Everyman’s newspaper launched by Hank Greenspun and his wife, Barbara, with their purchase of the Las Vegas Free Press in 1950. Both parents also are members of the Hall of Fame. He is …
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Thanks to the Reno Gazette-Journal for being willing to go to court to clarify the law on public records cf medical marijuana establishments. The city of Sparks, for some reason not readily apparent, is holding onto an interpretation of a poorly worded statute intended to protect medical-marijuana cardholders’ and physicians’ identities …
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Here’s a list of top awards in the 2013 Nevada Press Association “Better Newspaper Contest,” announced at the association’s annual convention in Elko: General Excellence: First Place: Class I (urban daily newspapers with circulation of 15,000 or more) – Las Vegas Review-Journal. Judges’ comments: “‘Comprehensive’ would be an understatement. LVRJ …
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