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Nevada should be like a kid happily skipping home to show his parents a ‘B’ on his report card. And taxpayers, reporters and other watchdogs should be like the stern parents who respond, “Yes, I’m happy too. But you know you can do better.” The ‘B’ earned by Nevada is …
Read More »Doing little (and big) things right is key to success
By Kevin Slimp The past four weeks have been a blur. I remember driving along a beach in Florida, using a snow shovel for the first time during a blizzard in Minnesota, eating pizza with old friends in Des Moines and standing in front of audiences in both Rochester and …
Read More »What the prison still didn’t want us to know
As is often the case, it didn’t take long for a judge to recognize the value in opening some previously sealed state records in the case of two inmates shot by a prison guard. According to the story by Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Sandra Chereb, U.S. District Judge Andrew P. …
Read More »Creating focus on enterprise news
The Medford Mail Tribune’s recent participation in GateHouse’s Better Journalism Project revealed several best practices for consistently creating enterprise news, as well as developing a highly visible campaign for readers. In this session, learn how to plan for, execute and promote enterprise journalism on a weekly basis. Registration deadline: Monday, …
Read More »Overtime rules would harm employees unintentionally
By David Chavern President and CEO, NAA In June, the Department of Labor proposed increasing the salaries test used to determine if an employee is eligible for overtime from the current threshold of $23,660 to $50,440 annually. This means that employees – such as managers, supervisors and other professionals who …
Read More »Reno editor working on Fatal Encounters project
Reno News & Review editor D. Brian Burghart has stepped down to devote full time to a project, Fatal Encounters, that has generated national attention in recent years. The site is a national database of police killings and was started when nothing like it existed. Fatal Encounters gained considerable traction …
Read More »How Carson Street will look when they’re done
As the Nevada Press Association is located in the Rinckel Mansion, a half-block away from the construction zone on Carson Street, we have a keen interest in the project going on now and continuing to Nevada Day. (Well, before Nevada Day. They promise to have it done by then.) Take …
Read More »2016 convention planned in Mesquite
The 2016 convention and awards banquet of the Nevada Press Association will be Sept. 23-24 at the CasaBlanca in Mesquite. We’ll get more details to you as the date draws closer. NPA last met at the CasaBlanca in 2008. I’m pretty sure a good time was had by all. I …
Read More »Congratulations to a couple of new publishers
Congratulations to Gary Cook, an NPA board member who has moved to the Sparks Tribune from the Ely Times, and to Rob Galloway, who has taken over at the Tahoe Daily Tribune after working for the Reno Gazette-Journal. In Sparks, Cook replaces Kent Lauer, former executive director of NPA. Cook …
Read More »Examples of public records from Reno Gazette-Journal
Thanks to the Reno Gazette-Journal for adding to the chorus of those who believe the Nevada Legislature, through its lawyers, went too far in sealing itself off from public scrutiny. The best part of the RGJ’s editorial is the slideshow of 14 examples of public records that “made Reno better …
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