Nevada Press Association Convention 2015 at the Nugget in Sparks this Friday and Saturday. The annual awards banquet, honoring the best in journalism and inductions to the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame, will be Friday night, with cocktails at 6 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m. The schedule for the …

At the Nevada State Museum last night, Anna Fallini Berg talked about the life her family has lived for 150 years on a ranch east of Tonopah. Then she gestured at the photos hanging on white gallery walls around her. There it was, her daily life distilled into iconic scenes …

At the Nevada State Museum last night, Anna Fallini Berg talked about the life her family has lived for 150 years on a ranch east of Tonopah. Then she gestured at the photos hanging on white gallery walls around her. There it was, her daily life distilled into iconic scenes …

I’ve never seen a debate quite like the scrum coming up Thursday evening on Fox News, but I’ve moderated and covered enough candidate forums to have an idea what to look for. 1. Who answers the question? Candidates typically want to stay ‘on message’ and have pat answers to topics, …

On Tuesday’s episode of Nevada Newsmakers, former university regent Howard Rosenberg was asked about recent criticism of Chancellor Dan Klaich. After a few comments in defense of the university chancellor, who has been under fire recently, Rosenberg turned to what he sees as the problem. “What really bothers me is …

Sure seems to be a lot of fake news around. I’m not talking about the Onion, or other parody sites who are trying to be funny. I’m talking about wrong, false, outrageous ‘news’ passed from link to link, Facebook post to Facebook post, email to email. This YouTube video presents …

Hey, Reddit and Gawker, welcome to the world of publishing. The two sites recently had high-profile changes at the top as a result of old-fashioned disagreements over just how far they should push the envelope. Reddit’s management team started cleaning up some of the worst dregs of its subreddits, the …

For anybody wondering, the trees removed Friday afternoon from the front of the Rinckel Mansion (Reynolds Press Center) were an invasive species known as Tree of Heaven. They have provided wonderful shade for my parking spot for the past nine years, but a month or so ago a big branch …

For journalists, the best lesson from the Confederate flag came from Matthew Guterl, a professor of Africana and American studies at Brown University, in an interview with the Washington Post. Reporter Roberto Ferdman asked this: You’ve talked about how we live in this weird moment, where there are competing representations …