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by Kevin Slimp While meeting with publishers one-on-one at conventions, the conversations run the gamut of running a newspaper or newspaper group. Over the weekend, while at a newspaper association convention in Oregon, publishers arrived at our scheduled meetings with questions about structuring groups, designing pages and increasing revenue, among …

by Jim Stasiowski A recent enjoyable email exchange with a reporter I once supervised included this from him: “OK, maybe we don’t miss the inevitable entreaties to ‘make just one more phone call,’ but we do miss most everything else you brought to the newsroom.” I do especially value the …

Two recent rulings on the East Coast confirmed the ability of the public to take videos of police and to access the videos that police take on their body-worn cameras. Both help affirm that police videos are public record — as Nevada’s statute clearly states when it comes to body-cams. …

Former NPA president Steve Ranson, recently in the news for his appointment as president of an international newspaper association, has announced he’ll be retiring from the Lahontan Valley News on Aug. 1. Here’s his bittersweet column on calling an end to a long career at the LVN. Fortunately, he’s still …

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has fascinated media-watchers for awhile now, since the relatively rapid sales from Stephens Media to New Media Investment Group, which put its operation under Gatehouse, to News + Media Capital Group, which turned out to be the Adelson family. Now come two stories in quick succession …

Congratulations to Steve Ranson, editor of the Lahontan Valley News, who recently was elected president of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors. Ranson is past president of the Nevada Press Association and a member of the NPA board. He’s been editor of the LVN for more than nine years. …

Every once in awhile, we like to remind readers of the glaring difference between general-circulation newspapers and government websites. Below is a piece from Public Notice Research Center that re-emphasizes the point: Just because information is available on government sites doesn’t mean anybody looks at it. In 2014, then-Indiana Governor Mike …

By Peter W. Wagner Whenever the conversation turns to printed newspaper vs. digital publication my comment is always the same: The delivery platform isn’t as important as the information being delivered. In an age when almost any obscure fact can be found on the Internet, it is locally written content …

(Updated with additional information on the emergency regulations adopted this week. A second update adds a warning about mailing permits.) Recreational marijuana is set to go on sale legally in Nevada on Saturday, which means we can also expect more advertising for dispensaries. How much, though, remains to be seen. …

By Kevin Slimp Convention season has been a lot of fun for me this year. I just returned from visits with associations across the Midwest U.S. and Western Canada and there is a definite intensity brewing among community newspaper publishers. There were more publishers wanting a private moment to discuss …