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Eight journalists who had a lasting impact in Nevada will be inducted into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame next month, the Nevada Press Foundation announced today. Mary Hausch, Jake Highton, Bill Hughes, Frank McCulloch, Steve Ranson, Guy Rocha, Laura Tennant and Charles Zobell will be honored at a lunch …
Read More »Utah Press to manage NPA, NPF
On December 1, Brian Allfrey and the Utah Press Association (UPA) will replace Richard Karpel and Karpel Public Affairs as the executive director and manager of the Nevada Press Association (NPA) and Nevada Press Foundation (NPF). Karpel announced earlier this year that he would be moving out of state to …
Read More »NPA, NPF elect new leaders
Las Vegas Review-Journal Executive Editor Glenn Cook and The Nevada Independent environmental reporter Daniel Rothberg were elected as the volunteer leaders of the Nevada Press Foundation (NPF) and the Nevada Press Association (NPA), respectively, at the annual meetings of the organizations that were held earlier this month. Cook (picture at …
Read More »Six essential journalists honored at HOF Lunch
Last weekend in Las Vegas, five new members and one existing member of the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame were officially inducted into the group, which already includes two former Nevada governors, the first woman to report on the Nevada Legislature, Hank Greenspun and Mark Twain. The proceedings were emceed …
Read More »German to be honored at Convention
The late Jeff German will be inducted into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame at the Nevada Press Foundation Annual Convention next weekend. The Foundation’s Board of Trustees this week approved his early entry into the august group of Nevada journalists, which includes figures like Mark Twain, Nellie Mighels Davis, Hank …
Read More »Jeff German
Jeff German was one of the pre-eminent investigative reporters of his era. He plied his trade for over 40 years in Las Vegas until his life was tragically cut short in 2022, in a killing that shocked the nation. At the time of his induction into the Hall of Fame, …
Read More »Four to be inducted into Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame
Four journalists who had a lasting impact in Nevada will be inducted into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame next month, the Nevada Press Foundation announced today. Steve Carp, Jane Ann Morrison, Tom Tait and the late Bob Brown will be honored at a lunch ceremony to be held at …
Read More »Tom Tait
Tom Tait was a Las Vegas-based Associated Press news editor who hired reporters, mentored writers and guided coverage in Nevada and surrounding states from 2000 to 2022. He retired in June 2022 as Southwest AP news editor for Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada after 45 years in journalism in California …
Read More »Steve Carp
Steve Carp has covered many of the biggest events and personalities in Las Vegas sports history. For the Las Vegas Sun, he reported on the University of Nevada-Las Vegas mens’ basketball team’s national championship run in 1990 and return to the Final Four in 1991, He was the Las Vegas …
Read More »Jane Ann Morrison
Jane Ann Morrison worked for four newspapers over 48 years and 44 of those years she was based in Las Vegas, reporting on everything from the mob to gaming and politics. She arrived in Las Vegas in 1976 to work for the Review-Journal, where she reported on-and-off for 38 years. …
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