Online Entry The Nevada Press Foundation sponsors the Awards of Excellence and uses an online entry and judging system hosted by SmallTownPapers, Inc. The main contest page is betternewspapercontest.com, where contestants go to submit their entries digitally. Seven categories still require hard copies to be mailed but even those must …
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By Teri Saylor for the Nevada Press Association and the National Newspaper Association Despite having to find a new printer for his newspapers on short notice, Kirk Kern (photo below) considers himself lucky. Last July, Kern, the chief operating officer of Battle Born Media in Boulder City, Nevada received a …
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C.J. Hadley, Holly Rudy-James and the late Vail Pittman were inducted into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame last weekend in Ely in a luncheon held during the Nevada Press Association’s 95th annual convention. A brief biography of Ms. Hadley is posted below. Here’s a video of her moving acceptance …
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C.J. Hadley, Holly Rudy-James and the late Vail Pittman were inducted into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame last weekend in Ely in a luncheon held during the Nevada Press Association’s 95th annual convention. Here’s a brief biography of Ms. James, along with photos from her induction ceremony. Holly Rudy-James …
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C.J. Hadley, Holly Rudy-James and the late Vail Pittman were inducted into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame last weekend in Ely in a luncheon held during the Nevada Press Association’s 95th annual convention. Here’s a brief biography of Mr. Pittman. Vail Pittman Vail Pittman is the second Nevada governor …
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The Nevada Press Association announced the winners of its 2019 Better Newspaper and Magazine Contest this evening in Ely at its annual awards banquet. The first-, second- and third-place winners in each category in both the journalism and advertising segments of the contest are listed below. The award-winning graphics and …
Read More »No-Stigma Nevada: When General Practitioners Pass Out the Prozac. By Kim Palchikoff Most patients don’t choose their primary care physician based on their doctor’s knowledge of mental health. Usually they ask whether the physician is taking new patients and accepts their insurance. But for Nevada, a state with a notoriously severe …
Read More »It’s all about the cash: Modern Psychiatry in Nevada No-Stigma Nevada by Kim Palchikoff Las Vegas is known around the world for a lot of things— blackjack, booze, bikini-clad pool parties. And cash. Lots and lots of cash. And there are doctors in town — psychiatrists, to be specific — who will …
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Online Entry The Nevada Press Association uses an online entry and judging system through SmallTownPapers. The main contest page is betternewspapercontest.com. Rather than clipping stories, ads and photos, you upload files to a web site. A few categories, such as general excellence, still require the hard copy to be mailed …
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Welcome to the Better Magazine Contest Thanks for your interest in the magazines-only class in the Nevada Press Association contest. The categories are adapted from the Better Newspaper Contest to fit a magazine format. (Note that not every category available in the newspaper contest is available to magazines.) The class is …
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