Newspaper industry

I’ve been fascinated by the controversy surrounding World Press Photo’s prestigious annual competition, where 20 percent of the submissions were rejected for being overly manipulated. It’s about truth. And truth is hard. As many have pointed out, the question of how far photographers can go in altering their images has …

Here’s a summary of Nevada Press Association testimony during the Feb. 9-13 week of the Nevada Legislature: SB104 — It makes some changes in political advertising, primarily to exclude clothing and inexpensive items such as pencils and candy from a requirement to have “paid for by” language on them. I …

The key here is understanding the relationship you have with readers, and how to build it. Guardian digital chief: Killing off comments ‘a monumental mistake’

The Las Vegas Review-Journal was past due in taking down its reader comments yesterday. Frankly, they had become worse than a joke. They were the drunk uncle at a family reunion who didn’t care that we ignored his racist, homophobic, sexist rants. Somebody needed to shut him up. It has …

Here is a column from the president of the National Newspaper Association on elimination of overnight mail, and how that hurts small towns . Rural mail will suffer with more mail plant closures By John Edgecombe Jr. Publisher, The Nebraska Signal, Geneva, NE And President, National Newspaper Association  A friend of …

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