Bob Brown made his most significant contribution to Nevada journalism as owner and publisher of the North Las Vegas Valley Times from 1973 to 1984. He bought the paper from former Las Vegas Sun managing editor Adam Yacenda and two years later turned the weekly paper into a daily. At …
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Nominations are now being accepted for inductees to the Nevada Press Foundation Hall of Fame. The deadline to submit nominations for 2022 is the close-of-business on Friday, July 15. Candidates should be newspaper professionals who made lasting contributions to Nevada journalism and/or the news industry over the course of their …
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The Humboldt Sun, Battle Mountain Bugle, and Lovelock Review-Miner will combine print editions under a single name — the Great Basin Sun — according to a statement issued last week by Nevada News Group owner and publisher Peter Bernhard. Bernhard blamed printing costs and production schedules for the change, which …
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The Nevada Press Association Board of Directors approved three membership applications at its meeting last week, designating two newspapers and a local news website as affiliate members with full voting rights in the association. The two newspapers are fairly recent start-ups publishing in rural areas of the state. The local …
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The Nevada Press Association Board of Directors last week approved a proposal to change the trade association’s membership dues schedule in 2022. Under the new schedule, Regular Member and Affiliate Member dues rates will be based on newsroom Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs) rather than circulation or readership. FTEs measure an organization’s …
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Earlier this month, Nevada Press Association President Nancy Streets appointed Greenspun Media’s Dave Mondt to a vacant position on the NPA Board of Directors. Mondt replaces Ric Anderson, a veteran board member and former NPA President who recently left Nevada to take a position with a digital news operation in …
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This is the last in a series on newer members of the Nevada Press Association. You may read other articles in the series by scrolling through the stories here. Know your audience. That’s good advice in most endeavors, and Rachel Dahl took it to heart in creating The Fallon Post …
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This is the next in a series of articles on nontraditional members of the Nevada Press Association. If Nevada Magazine has had a theme throughout its 85-year history, other than highlighting the state’s charms and oddities to help attract tourists, it has been evolution. Launched in 1936 by the state …
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Elko Daily Free Press Advertising Director Nancy Streets was elected president of the Nevada Press Association at the organization’s Annual Meeting in Reno on Sept. 18. It will be Streets’ second tour of duty as NPA’s leader. She also served as the group’s president in 2007-08. “I’m honored to be …
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The Nevada Press Association (NPA) and the Nevada Press Foundation announced recently that the organizations have completed a major restructuring. In a sales agreement formally approved by the boards of both groups in August, the Foundation purchased most of the programs and services owned and operated by NPA, including the …
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