All I see in Carson City is the Las Vegas Review-Journal online edition, so I can’t comment on the specifics of the paper’s new look. I have been through a few redesigns, however, and i know most readers in a few months won’t even remember what the old paper looked …
Read More »Community comes to aid of newspaper
“If you do not already subscribe to your local paper, do it.”
Read More »Officially secret
Here’s what irks me when government officials argue they have to keep public information secret, such as Sparks is doing with marijuana licensees. They never even notice they share it with other governments. They only want to keep it from us. The marijuana regulation specifies how the state must share …
Read More »Better choices for time capsules
It does seem rather odd to put newspapers in time capsules. I mean, unless they’re sealed for thousands of years, you could just look up what was happening around that time by visiting the local library. Libraries are the opposite of a time capsule. Anyway, the director of the Nevada …
Read More »Greenspun sells Vegas.com
Among the media holdings at The Greenspun Corp. was one of the premier travel destinations in the country, Vegas.com. The sale for $15 million went to Remark Media, now located in Las Vegas. Here’s the story in Vegas Inc., a Greenspun publication.
Read More »When ranching and journalism become art
At the Nevada State Museum last night, Anna Fallini Berg talked about the life her family has lived for 150 years on a ranch east of Tonopah. Then she gestured at the photos hanging on white gallery walls around her. There it was, her daily life distilled into iconic scenes …
Read More »When ranching and journalism become art
At the Nevada State Museum last night, Anna Fallini Berg talked about the life her family has lived for 150 years on a ranch east of Tonopah. Then she gestured at the photos hanging on white gallery walls around her. There it was, her daily life distilled into iconic scenes …
Read More »‘Yellow journalism’ in Nevada?
On Tuesday’s episode of Nevada Newsmakers, former university regent Howard Rosenberg was asked about recent criticism of Chancellor Dan Klaich. After a few comments in defense of the university chancellor, who has been under fire recently, Rosenberg turned to what he sees as the problem. “What really bothers me is …
Read More »The answer to all our problems …
… is the internet, of course. OK, I’m going there. At the risk of being swallowed by the online universe and spit out the other end as a decrepit, hopelessly out of date, moldering relic of the newspaper past — all of which I am, by the way — I’m …
Read More »Welcome, judge, to the public-records problem
Now a judge knows what it’s like to try to pry records out of an uncooperative Nevada agency. I should say another judge, as U.S. Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen isn’t the first to confront the problem. We saw it in several rulings on the Reno Gazette-Journal’s lawsuit to get access …
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