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Here is the first in a series of profiles about new members that have been admitted into the Nevada Press Association since non-newspapers were granted full membership rights in 2019. By Nevada Press Association This Is Reno is perhaps as good an example as any of how news organizations are …

Five journalists who collectively span three centuries and the 450 miles between Las Vegas and Reno-Tahoe, were inducted into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame today. Nellie Mighels Davis, Don Digilio, Dennis Myers, Cory Farley and Thomas Mitchell are the latest journalists to join Silver State giants like Mark Twain, …

Cory Farley has been one of the luminaries of Northern Nevada journalism, appearing regularly in print since 1981. His easygoing, comfortable prose quickly established him as one of the Reno Evening Gazette’s top news feature writers, and his subsequent left-of-center column writing has made him one of the most-read writers …

Don Digilio was employed at the Las Vegas Review-Journal for more than 20 years, working his way up from reporter and columnist to become the paper’s top editor in 1969. According to the Online Nevada Encyclopedia, Digilio “returned stability” to the Review-Journal newsroom during his tenure as editor. “Don fit …

Thomas Mitchell has a lifelong record of outstanding journalism, distinguishing himself as both an editor and columnist. As the newsroom leader of Nevada’s largest newspaper for two decades, he also did as much as any other journalist in the history of the state to defend and expand public access to …

A resident of Reno from age five, Dennis Myers cut a wide swath through Nevada media and politics. In the late 1960s, he attended the University of Nevada-Reno where he wrote for The Sagebrush student newspaper and covered the Nevada Legislature for Reno and Las Vegas radio stations. For many …

Nellie Mighels Davis was the first woman to cover the Nevada Legislature, reporting on the assembly in 1877 and 1879, when her husband Henry Rust Mighels owned the Nevada Morning Appeal. When he died in the spring of 1879, Nellie assumed ownership and took over as publisher of the Carson …