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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 …

By Richard Karpel In a recent article in Columbia Journalism Review, Liena Zagare and Ben Smith argue that local governments should move public notice and other civic advertising from newspapers to local-news websites like their own BKLYNER. To buttress their case, they claim that a newspaper in their borough, the …

In Gov. Brian Sandoval’s explanation of why he vetoed SB384, which would have specified some open records for the Public Employees Retirement System while closing others, he accurately hit on key points we had argued in our opposition to the bill. “SB384 has merit,” the governor wrote. “Protecting public employees …

With just three days to go, the 2017 legislative session has reached the critical stage where most of the work is done, but major pieces of legislation still hang in the balance and the specter of a special session hung over the building on Thursday when a budget deal fell …

By Peter Wagner Newspapers can generate additional exceptional advertising revenue with a special section estate and funeral planning guide. When we first started considering such a section we wrongly gave it the working title “Death and Dying”. While that title clearly defined the purpose and direction of the project, we quickly realized the …

Jim Hartman is right. The Nevada Tax Commission’s agenda for its May 8 meeting was too vague and, I believe, did violate the open-meeting law. Feel free to look at the agenda for yourself, but here is the relevant portion: Yes, you could look up NRS Chapter 453D, which is …

By Steve Ranson New Voices emerged to counteract a Supreme Court decision in the 1980s involving the Hazelwood School District v. Khulmeier. Essentially, this ruling allowed educators to censor student-written articles, stop newspapers from being distributed to the student body and retaliate against journalism advisers who dared promote reasonable free …

The Nevada Digital Newspaper Project, a project of Nevada’s universities and the state library to add 100,000 pages of historic Nevada newspapers to the digital archives, is moving ahead with several ghost-town papers this year. Already, several Carson City newspapers — Daily Appeal, Daily State Register, Morning Appeal — as …

By Al Cross Last month’s column was a warning that the attack on journalism by certain actors on the public stage is having an effect on community newspapers, and that social media are driving readers to spend more time with national news than with local news. How can community papers …

Start with the letter E! By Peter W. Wagner Founder and publisher of The N’West Iowa REVIEW The challenge of selling newspaper, shopper and magazine ads can turn into an exasperating experience. There are moments when everything and everyone seems to be working against you. You hit the street early, …