Wabuska Mangler

A Douglas County judge closed a pre-trial hearing to the public and press in a criminal case involving the death of a 2-year-old child, prompting The Record-Courier to protest. District Judge Tod Young granted a motion from defense attorneys for Trent Getty, who is accused of killing his daughter a …

Craig Moon, the former publisher of USA Today, was named this morning as the new publisher at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which has been making nearly as much news as it has been reporting in recent weeks. According to the story in the R-J, former publisher Jason Taylor is moving …

Newspaper endorsements of candidates for president are flying hot and heavy these days, which brings up the inevitable question of whether such endorsements matter. Of course they do. Just not in the way most people think. You can look at polling numbers and try to determine whether people’s minds are …

I just added a polling function to this web site, and now I’m going to write about the uselessness of polls. Yes, they’re fun. They give people something to write about when there isn’t any actual news. Probably in some circumstances, they have a worthwhile function. But political polls? Bunk. …

Ha ha. Good one. He really got us this time. I’m talking, of course, about South Carolina state Rep. Mike Pitts, who pulled a fast one on the press by introducing a bill that would have required journalists to register. It was all a clever way to make a point …

If Congress does not act quickly to reform the U.S. Postal Service, small-town America can expect a further slow-down of the mail, said Chip Hutcheson, publisher of The Times-Leader in Princeton, KY, when he testified to a U.S. Senate committee Jan. 21. Hutcheson, president of the 130-year-old National Newspaper Association, …

Welcome to the newest member of the Nevada Press Association: Elevate Nevada. It’s been publishing since May 2015, with distribution mainly in Clark County, and covers the burgeoning medical marijuana industry in Nevada. In charge are a couple of people familiar to journalism veterans around the state: Guy Bertuzzi, who …

Updated to restore links, add some clarifications and editing. Here’s a point that seems to keep getting overlooked in the continuing inability of the Washoe County School Board to follow the state’s Open Meeting Law. Even when board members were trying to comply, they got bad advice from their attorneys. …

Let us know if you have a story to submit for the 2015 Public Notice Journalism award. Entries should be news or feature stories that highlight the importance of public notice. Judges give positive weight to the use or linking of the public notice involved when there was one. The …