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Awards were handed out Saturday night in Carson City to dozens of journalists, photographers and designers at the annual banquet of the Nevada Press Association to recognize the winners of the Better Newspaper Contest. Here are links to the results: Hall of Fame inductees Sweepstakes winners Journalists of merit Community …

By Kevin Slimp I guess it comes with experience (that sounds better than “age”). In the “old days” when I visited a newspaper, it was almost always related to hardware, software or some other type of technology. These days, it might be just about anything. Such was the case in …

By Peter W. Wagner It’s time to get real if newspapers want to dominate the local market. The really big dollars will be found in our community newspapers and not our one-of-many-in-the-community websites.

 Print advertising provides a gerater return. Anyone can create a website in your market. All they need is a computer and …

 The threat to legal requirements that public notices be published in newspapers has never been greater. Learn about the trends in public notice and the practices that every paper must embrace to help the industry successfully respond to the siege on this traditional pillar of government transparency. Click here to …

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 …

Brendan Riley, who covered the Nevada Legislature for 19 sessions, has been added to the Nevada Press Association convention schedule to talk about writing his just-published book, “Lower Georgia Street — California’s Forgotten Barbary Coast.” He’ll speak at the Press Center, 102 N. Curry St. in Carson City, starting at …

By Kevin Slimp “We need to find ways to give our staff the tools they need to get the job done. Training is necessary if we are going to have successful ad reps, editors and writers.” While attending the Tennessee Press Association Convention recently, Jack Fishman, Morristown, said those words …

By Al Cross Last month I shared the story of a community newspaper editor who showed an effective way to respond to concerns of readers, often not politely expressed, that his newspaper was liberally biased. Brian Hunt of the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin is an experienced editor, but an intern at …

By Jim Pumarlo Public records are the foundation for reporting a range of stories important to your readers. Police reports reveal a string of continuing break-ins in a neighborhood. Minutes from a school board committee reveal discussions and eventual recommendation to close an elementary school. Letters sent from a state …

There’s more to holding the attention of your readers than writing a well-crafted, exceptional story. Today’s younger readers generally have a shorter attention span and are easily distracted. They often lose interest in even the best-written story after just one or two paragraphs. Even the finest reporting needs to be …