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Read More »How to measure newsroom productivity
by Ken Blum Dear Black Inkling Readers, I need to lead this column with an important note. And that note is: no, I am not implying that reporters at community newspapers are loafers or laggards. I spent the first ten years of my career in community journalism as a writer …
Read More »EPA releases records at 10:30 pm Friday
I guess you could call it standard operating procedure. When there is bad news, announce it late Friday afternoon. That’s in the playbook of every sleazy, dishonest flack in the PR universe. So what does it say about the EPA that it ended its foot-dragging on records about the Animas …
Read More »Review-journal editor on reader reaction to redesign
All I see in Carson City is the Las Vegas Review-Journal online edition, so I can’t comment on the specifics of the paper’s new look. I have been through a few redesigns, however, and i know most readers in a few months won’t even remember what the old paper looked …
Read More »Community comes to aid of newspaper
“If you do not already subscribe to your local paper, do it.”
Read More »Officially secret
Here’s what irks me when government officials argue they have to keep public information secret, such as Sparks is doing with marijuana licensees. They never even notice they share it with other governments. They only want to keep it from us. The marijuana regulation specifies how the state must share …
Read More »Better choices for time capsules
It does seem rather odd to put newspapers in time capsules. I mean, unless they’re sealed for thousands of years, you could just look up what was happening around that time by visiting the local library. Libraries are the opposite of a time capsule. Anyway, the director of the Nevada …
Read More »Greenspun sells Vegas.com
Among the media holdings at The Greenspun Corp. was one of the premier travel destinations in the country, Vegas.com. The sale for $15 million went to Remark Media, now located in Las Vegas. Here’s the story in Vegas Inc., a Greenspun publication.
Read More »Cry me a river
Listening to KUNR while driving to work this morning, I was sympathetic to a story about a YouTube video entrepreneur whose work is being plagiarized on Facebook. After all, internet audiences often are built on the content of others. Some of the most-trafficked sites in the world, such as reddit, …
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