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By David Chavern, NAA president & CEO The infamous day-after-Thanksgiving retail bonanza — affectionately dubbed “Black Friday” — is always a major event for newspapers. Readers look forward to the arrival of the “Thanksgiving edition” of their local newspaper, stuffed with advertisements for the best retail sales, deals and coupons. …

We headed for Reno on Wednesday afternoon to the reception for retiring Reno Gazette-Journal reporters Bill O’Driscoll, Susan Skorupa, Jeff Delong and Ray Hagar. There was a good turnout while we were there, and Publisher John Maher and Editor Kelly Scott gave warm farewell speeches about the longtime employees.   …

From Ken Blum Dear Black Inkling readers, Times change. Sometimes for the best. Sometimes not for the best. Here’s an example of the latter that affects community newspapers. Years ago, a photographer representing a community newspaper was largely free to roam and take pictures of whatever and whoever he pleased. …

Angel DeFazio, who got a trespassing citation for recording a Public Utilities Commission hearing with a video camera, called to talk to me about the open meeting law. The 62-year-old Las Vegas resident is a reporter for Vegas Voice, a newspaper for seniors, although the Las Vegas Review-Journal called her …

If you’ve been waiting for a good time to tour Carson City’s historic west side, tomorrow (Oct. 24) is the day. The Ghost Walk will be strolling the neighborhood starting at 10 a.m. and continuing the tours until 2:30 p.m. Check out the web site for details. We’re pleased to …

Now that ‘Back to the Future’ is in the past, we wanted to show that movie wasn’t alone in predicting the longevity of newspapers. First, of course, the USA Today edition from ‘Back to the Future’: But there is also George Jetson, who gets his edition delivered digitally: And Blade …

If people call you crazy long enough, pretty soon you begin to question your sanity. For the past 20 years or so, the demise of print newspapers has pretty much been a foregone conclusion of anyone who was involved in digital delivery of news. As Kevin Slimp points out occasionally, …

Belated welcomes to a couple of new editors — Caitlin Row, at the Tahoe Daily Tribune, and Henry Kingman, at Winnemucca Publishing — who have been on the job for about a month now. A Wisconsin native, Row was working for Swift publications in Colorado when she moved to South …

  Update: Four reporters for the Reno Gazette-Journal are taking Gannett’s buyout package and will be retiring  next week. Here’s the story in the RGJ. The four — Ray Hagar, Bill O’Driscoll, Susan Skorupa and Jeff Delong — all are longtime journalists in Northern Nevada. O’Driscoll has been with the …

So far, we have two wildly different accounts of the confrontation at Tesla’s gigafactory which led to the arrest of a Reno Gazette-Journal photographer. First came the RGJ’s story on the arrest of Andy Barron on Oct. 9. It was followed four days later by a blog post by Tesla …