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The death of muckraking San Francisco journalist Warren Hinckle brought back vivid memories of the hard-drinking gadfly’s appearance at the 1988 convention of the Nevada Press Association in Ely. “Knew him well,” wrote Warren Lerude, NPA Hall of Famer. “Once drove him and Bassett Bentley from Ely, Nevada, to Virginia …

By David Chavern Newspaper Association of America When Louisiana began flooding earlier this month, news coverage was split between the 2016 Rio Olympics and the upcoming presidential election. This was the worst natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy, and you barely saw it on TV or in magazines, or heard about …

It’s a Nevada history book like you’ve never seen. ‘Front Page Nevada’ brings together 53 front-page stories from the state’s newspapers to tell the history of the state from the people who were there — reporters and editors writing the first rough draft of history. What makes it unique? As …

Accurate. Devastating. Funny. Sad. I would review the whole video, but we laid off our movie reviewer nine years ago. The Las Vegas Review-Journal figures prominently toward the end of this biting and poignant segment from John Oliver on the state of newspapers — as well as the state of …

The Lahontan Valley News has moved to a new office at 37 Maine St. in the heart of downtown Fallon after several years on the outskirts. “We felt we weren’t doing a great job of serving people who wanted to come and do business with us,” said Steve Ranson, LVN …

Reno Gazette-Journal publisher John Maher, president of RGJ Media, is taking over as president of Oregonian Media Group, which operates The Oregonian newspaper and OregonLive website in Portland, the RGJ announced Thursday. Maher has been in Reno for five years. Before that he served as publisher of the Lincoln Journal …

By Chip Hutcheson President/National Newspaper Association and Publisher/The Times Leader, Princeton, KY I got the mail today. A couple of bills. A greeting card. Some catalogs. A newspaper. One package that my wife grabbed right away. (Wonder what that was?) Lately, it occurs to me how completely I take for …

I wish I had written this, because I agree 100 percent with every point. It’s MediaLife Magazine’s Seven Commandments of Community Newspapers, a quick read that either will reaffirm what you’re doing or open your eyes to the path back toward vitality. Go ahead and take the time to read …

Goodbye, Christine. That was the farewell when Winnemucca Publishing’s press made its final run earlier this month after more than 40 years of service. “We call it Christine, with much respect and trembling,” said Managing Editor Carmen Kofoed. “It’s both an impressively complicated machine and a simple design. It’s a …

Thanks to Riley Snyder for a bit of a history lesson when he fact-checked the Republican National Convention to confirm that Carson City is, indeed, still the capital of Nevada. That’s going to be the easiest fact-check he’ll ever do. In the meantime, though, Twitter managed to provide a spelling …