No-Stigma Nevada, By Kim Palchikoff. President Trump is out to get me, and I’m scared to death. I have a mental illness. I live with bipolar disorder — mood swings that come and go and I struggle to control them. It is a medical condition formerly known as …
Read More »Tough times can bring opportunities, too
By John Kimball If you look, there are opportunities for newspapers to grow advertising revenue in some categories – not in spite of the COVID-19 health crisis, but because of it. Even as things begin to open up, financial planning, home decorating, landscaping, local home improvement and other types of …
Read More »Storey Teller lawsuit is dismissed
Storey County Commissioner Lance Gilman’s defamation case against Storey Teller editor Sam Toll has been dismissed by a district judge, who granted Toll’s anti-SLAPP motion, allowed him to be reimbursed for attorney fees and could grant $10,000 in damages from Gilman. Toll wrote that he expects an appeal from Gilman, …
Read More »Winning back advertising lost during the COVID-19 pandemic
By Peter W. Wagner Many publishers and their staffs are worried about jump-starting their local advertisers following the COVID-19 shutdown. Although they’ve faithfully published their paper, often at a loss the last three months, some former clients’ media confidence and buying habits have changed. We’ve had three long-established weekly newspapers …
Read More »Tips to do great journalism from your home
By Bart Pfankuch In the COVID-19 era, many more journalists are working from home, some enjoying the freedom, a few discovering the difficulties and most hopefully avoiding the traps. As someone who has worked from home for nearly three years, and who spent five years lightly supervised in a capital …
Read More »Are you reading your own websites?
By Jim Pumarlo Digital platforms go a long way toward leveling the playing field among daily and nondaily newspapers. Even the smallest of newsrooms can compete with their larger counterparts by posting news as it happens, and then directing readers to print editions for more complete reports. The value of …
Read More »Nevada journalist secures vital COVID information
This is a story about a skirmish in the eternal struggle for information between reporters and the governments they cover, and about the value of professional journalism. The story begins on March 13, when Gov. Steve Sisolak declared a state of emergency and ordered non-essential businesses closed until the threat …
Read More »News organizations need your help
A version of this column appeared in newspapers throughout Nevada. By Richard Karpel The Nevada newspapers or news websites you enjoy reading are in trouble. Like many other businesses, the COVID-19 crisis has eliminated most of their revenue but not the expenses, delivering a body blow to a business model …
Read More »Newspapers are essential to our American dream
By Peter W. Wagner One of the reporters in our Sheldon office received an e-mail a week ago stating his child was no longer qualified to be taken care of by the local day-care facility. The e-mail came on Friday and the change went into effect on Monday. Never mind …
Read More »Mesquite Citizen Journal makes a comeback
With the demise of the Mesquite Local News, its former editor has revived her own online publication — the Mesquite Citizen Journal — to resume coverage of the southeast Nevada community. “Some of you know that I first began the Mesquite Citizen Journal (MCJ) on July 1, 2011, as an …
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