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A bipartisan group of congressional representatives told the International Trade Commission on Tuesday that tariffs imposed on newsprint from Canada were costing jobs and hurting small newspapers across the United States. Here’s a story from a Roll Call, and the AP story from the hearing. The Nevada Press Association has …

Sierra Nevada Media Group, the Swift Communications division in Northern Nevada, announced today it was cutting the number of print issues at the Nevada Appeal in Carson City, The Record-Courier in Minden-Gardnerville, the Lahontan Valley News in Fallon and the Tahoe Tribune at South Lake. The Appeal, currently publishing six …

Tell the truth, and don’t be afraid. For anybody who has worked at a newspaper, the reasons behind Thursday’s shooting at The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md., likely brought to mind at least one nasty phone call or angry confrontation. It happens. Somebody didn’t like something printed in the paper. …

On July 17, the International Trade Commission will hear testimony on the preliminary tariffs on Canadian groundwood paper, from which newsprint is produced. The News Media Alliance has asked members of Congress to testify or submit comments for this hearing, and describe the impact of these tariffs on their local …

By Kevin Slimp Over the past week or so, I received an email from a publisher asking if I could send examples of community newspapers who are doing things right. His plan was to contact these publishers to learn if he could benefit from their experiences. I told him I …

Nevada Press Association board member Kelly Scott is leaving her post as executive editor of the Reno Gazette Journal for a new job as vice president of content at Alabama Media Group. Here’s the announcement today. Scott was president of the NPA board in 2016-17 and has served on the …

By Kevin Slimp Disclosure: I have neither voted for, nor endorsed, any political candidate mentioned in this column. Spring has come to an end. I could have come up with that brilliant assumption from the sounds of the birds as I walked my neighborhood this morning, or the noticeable decrease …

By Barry Smith The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld a strict reading of the state’s open-meeting law in a case that began with wildlife traps set by a Nevada state legislator five years ago and transformed into an ethics complaint. It all began when Assemblyman Ira Hansen, a plumber, outdoorsman, …

The Northern Nevada Business Weekly has gone monthly, which means it also needed a new name. It’s now Northern Nevada Business View. Publisher Ben Rogers announced the new name on Monday. “Despite the change to a new monthly format for our print edition, we will continue to produce our daily …