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. …
Read More »Parental permission slips
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. …
Read More »Open government for real people, too
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 …
Read More »Ghost Walk strolls the neighborhood on Saturday
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 …
Read More »Back to the future of the past
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 …
Read More »Still crazy after all these digital years
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, …
Read More »Welcome to a couple of new editors
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 …
Read More »Four veteran reporters retiring from Reno Gazette-Journal
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 …
Read More »Showdown at the Tesla factory
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 …
Read More »Confidentiality: The curtain behind which institutions hide
Here’s what I hate — I said in my best Andy Rooney impersonation. Ogus and his successor Craig Evans, the interim chair of the Berkeley math department, said confidentiality rules prevented them speaking publicly about Coward’s case and referred queries to the university’s spokesperson. And … In a statement Janet …
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