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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 …

The story of the Gold Hill News isn’t like quite any other newspaper in Nevada, and that’s why you owe it to yourself to hear David Toll tell it firsthand at his upcoming lecture at the Nevada State Museum. If you’ve worked long in journalism in Nevada, or read much …

Journalism in Nevada, as I’ve noted before, is famous for its tall tales and make-believe stories — the stuff popularly being called ‘fake news’ these days. It might seem counterintuitive, then, to suggest there are a couple of lessons to be learned from the man who taught Nevada’s Comstock journalists …

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 …

Are you interested in membership in the Nevada Press Association? Newspapers, news websites, magazines and other Nevada-based publications are eligible for regular or affiliate membership, both of which come with full member rights and privileges. Individuals and companies who provide products and services to the news industry, or whose interests …

For more than three decades, John L. Smith was a daily columnist for the state’s largest newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he was considered a must read by R-J readers. Born and reared in Southern Nevada, John’s deep roots in the Silver State provided context that no other columnist could …

By Richard Moreno During the past century and a third, more than 800 newspapers have been published in Nevada. Most have sported traditional newspaper names — like Lahontan Valley News — but a few have had more unusual titles. The following are some of the most bizarre newspaper names ever …

Published for delegates to the September 1998 Reno convention of the National Newspaper Association and Nevada Press Association. By Kent Lauer On Aug. 10, 1924, eight Nevada editors and publishers met at the Lander County Courthouse in the central Nevada town of Austin. Representing newspapers from Elko, Tonopah, Austin and …

The Yesco sign company erected a new historical marker on Wednesday at the Rinckel Mansion, home of the Reynolds Press Center and NPA. The marker is the work of the State Historic Preservation Office, which has been on a mission since the Nevada sesquicentennial to update markers across the state. …