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As general manager, he helped build the Las Vegas Review-Journal into Nevada’s largest newspaper. The news-oriented businessman was a native Texan and journalism graduate of the University Missouri. An historian, he helped shape the Nevada State Museum system. From his obituary in the Las Vegas Sun, Aug. 20, 1998: A …

Vanett could be called an unsung hero of print journalism in Nevada because most of his 34-year career at the Las Vegas Review-Journal was spent behind the scenes on editing desks. As a city editor, he offered jobs and guidance to scores of young reporters. As a copy editor, he …

As an Elko High student, he was an apprentice at the weekly Elko Independent. He signed on full time in 1947. He served as production foreman and later purchased the Independent from Warren “Snowy” Monroe.

Thompson, vice president and associate editor of the Las Vegas Sun before her death in a traffic accident in 2002, championed children’s rights in stories and in a weekly column that led to changes in the family court system. She joined the Sun in 1970 as a copy editor. Later …

Known as the grandfather of The Record-Courier in Gardnerville, he was hired by the newspaper in 1893 as a printer and owned the paper from 1908-1944. During that time, The Record-Courier was regarded as a lively newspaper and one of the best weeklies in the far west.

The third generation of the Steninger family to own the Elko Daily Press, he and partner Earl Frantzen acquired the newspaper in 1968. A Missouri journalism graduate, he served as editor. He successfully challenged the constitutionality of a state law requiring newspapers to file reports of advertising expenditures by legislative …

After launching the Mineral County Independent-News in the Depression, McCloskey punctuated pomposity, phoned governors with answers and publicly spanked other newspapers. His weekly column “Jasper” spanned more than six decades. Born in Goldfield and reared in Tonopah, he started in the business as a paperboy.