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Listening to KUNR while driving to work this morning, I was sympathetic to a story about a YouTube video entrepreneur whose work is being plagiarized on Facebook. After all, internet audiences often are built on the content of others. Some of the most-trafficked sites in the world, such as reddit, …

I’ve never seen a debate quite like the scrum coming up Thursday evening on Fox News, but I’ve moderated and covered enough candidate forums to have an idea what to look for. 1. Who answers the question? Candidates typically want to stay ‘on message’ and have pat answers to topics, …

For anybody wondering, the trees removed Friday afternoon from the front of the Rinckel Mansion (Reynolds Press Center) were an invasive species known as Tree of Heaven. They have provided wonderful shade for my parking spot for the past nine years, but a month or so ago a big branch …

Another Nevada newspaper is changing hands — this time, it’s the Comstock Chronicle in Virginia City. Richard and Angela Mann, who have been running the Chronicle for eight years, announced they have sold the weekly paper to Zach and Harry Spencer, who have extensive backgrounds in newspapers and public relations. …

At the Nevada Legislature, a fiscal note on a piece of legislation is the kiss of death. The fiscal notes are submitted by agencies to estimate how much it will cost them to implement whatever is proposed. It is a bill for the bill. Of course, Nevada governments will tell …

The revelation yesterday by the New York Times that Hillary Clinton used her personal email account to hide thousands of public records — that’s what they are, you know — won’t come as a surprise to open-government advocates who know public officials exploit this loophole every day. The news is …

Updated with new quotes FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | February 24, 2015   Missouri Times Publisher to Resurrect Nevada’s First Newspaper After a long sabbatical, Territorial Enterprise is making a comeback  Reno, NV – Scott Faughn, publisher of The Missouri Times, and Elizabeth Thompson, former publisher and editor of the Nevada News Bureau, today …

Battle Born Media, a company with deep Nevada roots, has acquired the Sparks Tribune to add to its portfolio of newspapers in the state. Battle Born bought the historic newspaper _ which dates back more than a century _ from Sparks Tribune, LLC, owned by Randy Frisch, Dominic Welch and …

I don’t know if there’s a term for it, so I’ll just call it ‘attractive larceny.’ Images on the internet are so easy to grab, share or place on your own site that it seems like somebody left a bag of candy on your front porch. It’s not yours but …

bobbycaputo: Burning Man 2014 Series Photographed by Trey Ratcliff Good stuff from the desert.