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The Reno Gazette-Journal is partnering with the Journalism School at UNR to host a session by Les Zaitz at noon on Sept. 21 in the RGJ’s newsroom called “Small newsrooms doing big things.” Here’s where to get more info and register. Zaitz will be in Reno to accept the prestigious Frank …

 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 …

The Nevada Independent, an online news source and member of the Nevada Press Association, announced this week that it will be sharing content with rural newspapers at no cost to them. Specifically, the Battle Born Media papers — in Mesquite, Ely, Eureka, Sparks and Lincoln and Mineral counties — have …

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 …

In Las Vegas, the Convention and Visitors Authority approved a raise and bonus for its president, amounting to about $648,000 a year, prompting the Las Vegas Review-Journal to ask how the precise figures and amounts were arrived at by a subcommittee, since there was no discussion at the meeting. The …

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 …

I knew Jake Highton mostly by reputation, and what a reputation it was. The retired journalism professor died Monday at his home of a heart attack, according to this obituary in the Reno Gazette-Journal. He would try most years to attend the Nevada Press Association convention. We’ll find a moment …