Tim Dahlberg’s first job in journalism was at the Sparks Tribune, where he worked as reporter, sports editor, photographer, bottle washer and sometimes deliveryman. A student at the University of Nevada at the time, he told the editor he would work for free for the experience and he almost did, …
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The Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame honors men and women who have had a significant impact on journalism in the state. Members are elected each year by vote of the Nevada Press Association board of directors.
Lisa Kim Bach
September 29, 2018 Hall of Fame 0
A 1989 graduate in journalism and English from California State University, Fresno, Lisa Kim Bach started her career at the Modesto Bee, then the Clovis Independent, Fresno Bee and the News Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind., before joining the Las Vegas Review-Journal as a reporter in 1997. Her byline appeared …
Read More »Alf Doten
October 10, 2017 Hall of Fame 0
Alfred Doten moved to Nevada in 1863 to participate in the silver boom but soon began work as a reporter on the Como Sentinel, Virginia Daily Union, Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, and Gold Hill Daily News, which he bought in 1872 and guided to a legacy as one of the …
Read More »A.L. Higginbotham
October 10, 2017 Hall of Fame 0
A.L. Higginbotham taught journalism at the University of Nevada for 43 years and, in many ways, can be considered a founder of the Nevada Press Association and this Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame. In 1924, a group of Nevada editors met in Austin and then, three months later, at the …
Read More »Myram Borders
October 10, 2017 Convention, Hall of Fame 0
A journalist for 36 years, including 25 years as Las Vegas bureau manager for United Press International, Myram Borders broke news, fought for Nevada’s Open Meeting Law and mentored young reporters. Her efforts to allow cameras in the Nevada courtrooms were a major step forward for print and television journalism …
Read More »Bill Roberts
October 10, 2017 Hall of Fame 0
Bill Roberts, a Tonopah native and University of Nevada, Reno graduate, was a mainstay for three decades for Central Nevada Newspapers, which he formed in 1975 with his parents and wife, Bobby Jean. The newspaper group included some of Nevada’s most historic newspapers — the Tonopah Times-Bonanza and Goldfield News, …
Read More »Four additions to the Hall of Fame
September 30, 2017 Hall of Fame, Wabuska Mangler 1
The Nevada Press Association on Saturday inducted four new members to the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame — Myram Borders, Bill Roberts, Alf Doten and A.L Higginbotham. Myram Borders A journalist for 36 years, including 25 years as Las Vegas bureau manager for United Press International, Myram Borders broke news, …
Read More »Hall of Fame Members: The Complete List
September 30, 2017 Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame Information Comments Off on Hall of Fame Members: The Complete List
For a brief history of journalism in Nevada, read Jake Highton’s article for Nevada Humanities. Alphabetical list. To read about a Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame member, select a name below or click on a photo above.
Read More »Tales of the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame
August 25, 2017 Convention, Hall of Fame, Wabuska Mangler 0
Wells Drury was known as the fighting editor of the Comstock. On his first day at the Gold Hill News in 1876, his boss asked him, “Can you shoot?” He wasn’t talking about photographs. Find out what happened that day, as well as other tales of the Nevada Newspaper Hall …
Read More »The first piano in camp, or a Christmas carol
December 20, 2016 Hall of Fame, Wabuska Mangler Comments Off on The first piano in camp, or a Christmas carol
THE FIRST PIANO IN CAMP by Sam Davis IN 1858 — it might have been five years earlier or later; this is not the history for the public schools — there was a little camp about ten miles from Pioche, occupied by upward of three hundred miners, every one of …
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