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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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, …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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