From Chad Stebbens and Steve Ranson at the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors: Given that we have received significantly fewer Golden Quill entries this year than in 2017, the ISWNE board has authorized us to extend the entry deadline to March 1. The contest is open to community newspapers …
Read More »Nevada Press joins in contesting records ruling on Las Vegas massacre
The Nevada Press Association has joined the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in seeking to contest a judge’s ruling that news organizations must refrain from publishing stories about an autopsy from the October massacre in Las Vegas and destroy their copy of the records. The Las Vegas Review-Journal …
Read More »The great divide: Daily and weekly publishers view digital benefits very differently
by Kevin Slimp During a keynote address at the Kansas Press Association convention in February, I presented the results of my annual survey of newspaper publishers in the U.S. and Canada for the first time. With roughly 15 percent of publishers in these two countries participating in the survey, it’s …
Read More »We are real news
ARLINGTON, Va – The News Media Alliance today launched the final ad of the second phase of its Campaign to Support Real News. The new ad puts an exclamation point on the storyline it began in October 2017 with a strong statement: “We Are Real News,” and unlike other news …
Read More »Can you spot fake news?
Can You Tell the Difference Between Real and Fake News?
Read More »Bonanza publishes last stand-alone issue
After 47 years, the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza in Incline Village will publish its last stand-alone edition this week, part of a restructuring that will effect four Swift Communications newspapers in northern Nevada and California. Here’s Publisher Ben Rogers’s note on the changes. In essence, the Tahoe Daily Tribune, based …
Read More »A writing journey we’ll take together
By Bart Pfankuch We all know what they say about riding a bike, but I always wondered if the same holds true for writing. Over the past month, I’ve had the opportunity to find out. After spending the past 12 of my 28 years as a journalist in the editing …
Read More »New publisher at Nevada Appeal
The Nevada Appeal, the daily newspaper in Carson City, has announced appointment of a new publisher, Mick Raher, who previously served as director of sales. Brooke Warner, general manager of Sierra Nevada Media Group, had been filling both roles and will continue as general manager of the group, which includes …
Read More »Restoring journalists’ First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse door.
By Steve Ranson Thirty years ago — Jan. 13, 1988— the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-3 decision that student journalists shed some of their constitutional rights at the school door, and school administrators could remove material they deemed inappropriate — or, in many cases, embarrassing to them personally. The …
Read More »Differences between healthy, unhealthy newspapers
by Kevin Slimp As I sit in my hotel room in Gloucester, Va., I can’t help but think about the 2018 version of our annual newspaper publisher’s survey from the Newspaper Institute. As is often the case, being with these editors, designers, sales staff and the publisher of the Gloucester …
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