By Ken Paulson As we gather to celebrate Independence Day, it’s a good time to reflect on how our most fundamental freedoms have served this nation well. It’s an even better time to think about what would happen if those liberties were taken away. Sadly, the latter doesn’t take much …
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Nominations are now being accepted for inductees to the Nevada Press Foundation Hall of Fame. The deadline to submit nominations for 2022 is the close-of-business on Friday, July 15. Candidates should be newspaper professionals who made lasting contributions to Nevada journalism and/or the news industry over the course of their …
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The Humboldt Sun, Battle Mountain Bugle, and Lovelock Review-Miner will combine print editions under a single name — the Great Basin Sun — according to a statement issued last week by Nevada News Group owner and publisher Peter Bernhard. Bernhard blamed printing costs and production schedules for the change, which …
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The Nevada Press Association Board of Directors approved three membership applications at its meeting last week, designating two newspapers and a local news website as affiliate members with full voting rights in the association. The two newspapers are fairly recent start-ups publishing in rural areas of the state. The local …
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Submitted by The Associated Press Tom Tait, the Las Vegas-based Associated Press news editor who hired reporters, mentored writers and guided coverage in Nevada and surrounding states for more than two decades, has announced his retirement. Tait (picture at left) is Southwest news editor for Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. …
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The Nevada Press Association Board of Directors last week approved a proposal to change the trade association’s membership dues schedule in 2022. Under the new schedule, Regular Member and Affiliate Member dues rates will be based on newsroom Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs) rather than circulation or readership. FTEs measure an organization’s …
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Earlier this month, Nevada Press Association President Nancy Streets appointed Greenspun Media’s Dave Mondt to a vacant position on the NPA Board of Directors. Mondt replaces Ric Anderson, a veteran board member and former NPA President who recently left Nevada to take a position with a digital news operation in …
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Online Entry The Nevada Press Foundation sponsors the Awards of Excellence and uses an online entry and judging system hosted by SmallTownPapers, Inc. The main contest page is betternewspapercontest.com, where contestants go to submit their entries digitally. Seven categories still require hard copies to be mailed, but even those must be …
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During Sunshine Week, four of Nevada’s most respected journalists shared via Facebook Live how they overcame open government obstacles and used Nevada’s public records law to report on some of the most pressing issues facing the state. The Nevada Open Government Coalition hosted the discussion, moderated by The Nevada Independent’s …
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Updated April 8, 2022 The Contest Committee of the Nevada Press Foundation met twice via Zoom in the last six weeks and recommended a few modest changes in the rules for the 2022 Awards of Excellence competition. Those changes were approved by the Foundation’s Board of Trustees. The committee added …
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