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We received 1,446 entries for the 2016 Better Newspaper and Magazine contests, down a bit from past years. That’s not surprising, as we pared a couple of categories and replaced a few. The last few years we’ve averaged about 1,550 entries. Now that the deadline for submissions has passed, what …

Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame member Anne Pershing was remembered at a memorial service in Reno on Thursday as a dedicated and compassionate journalist. Close to 100 people attended the memorial at The Grove for Pershing, a former Nevada Press Association president and board member whose career in newspapers spanned …

Complaints to the Nevada attorney general of violations of the state’s open-meeting law have continued to decline over the past half-dozen years, according to the attorney who investigates them. Since January 2014, the Attorney General’s Office has averaged 32 complaints a year, according to George Taylor, the senior deputy who …

Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, explains in this brief Ted Talk how the federal government uses its electronic surveillance of journalists to crack down on whistleblowers. Timm made this point during a panel discussion last month in Las Vegas, where Patrick File convened a …

In journalism, as with other professions, using somebody else’s work and claiming it as your own is a serious ethical violation. We call it plagiarism. People get fired for it. There is also a longstanding practice of using somebody else’s idea and making it your own. Often, you simply give …

Few people embodied community journalism the way Anne Pershing did over her 33-year career as a reporter, editor, general manager and columnist. The toughest times for her were during her reporting of the leukemia cluster in Fallon, when she was writing about people she loved and cared for. She kept …

“Print is dead.” I heard that line in a movie I was watching last night, and it resonated more than ever. That’s because the movie was “Ghostbusters,” released in 1984, just a few years after I had embarked on my career as a journalist. The line is delivered by Harold …

Had the numbers been for a newspaper, the critics would have been aghast. Readership fell by 50 percent from 2014. Less than 10 percent of readers from a peak in 2013. Layoffs of 16 people on a 97-person staff. “Print is dead,” they would have announced. “The future is online. …

It’s painful to watch, yes. But as journalists it’s impossible to look away. I’m talking about the latest turmoil at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where three-decade columnist (and multiple NPA award-winner) John L. Smith has resigned. As I said this morning on Joe Schoenmann’s show on KNPR, “I’m sure they …