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The popular “How We Got the Story” panels will return to this year’s annual Nevada Press Foundation convention, which is scheduled next month at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino. The discussions will be held from 2pm to 5:30pm on Saturday, Sept. 24, immediately following the annual Hall of Fame Luncheon and preceding this year’s Awards Banquet.
Southwest Gas has graciously agreed to serve as the exclusive sponsor of the convention.
This year’s panels will feature reporters and editors from three Las Vegas-based news organizations, each of which won reporting awards in this year’s Awards of Excellence contest.
Nevada Current Deputy Editor April Corbin Girnus and Editor Hugh Jackson will discuss Girnus’ May 2021 Enterprise Journalism winner about a charter school where more than 40 percent of the teachers it employed had only a substitute-teaching license.
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The Nevada Independent’s Multimedia Editor Joey Lovato and Video Producer Tim Lenard will explain how even relatively small news organizations can produce professional-quality video journalism, using their award-winning “Nevadans at Work” series as a case study.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Art Kane and Assistant Managing Editor Rhonda Prast will deconstruct Kane’s reporting for “Flawed Discipline”, a 2021 investigative series that exposed a deeply flawed disciplinary process that allowed bad cops to keep their jobs.
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Review-Journal entertainment columnist John Katsilometes will once again emcee the Awards Banquet, an assignment he knocked out of the park the last time NPA members met in Las Vegas, in 2018. Good news: We’re in a better hotel and the surroundings will be much nicer this time!
Greenspun Media Group Managing Editor Ray Brewer will host the Hall of Fame Luncheon. We will also hear from this year’s inductees — Steve Carp, Jane Ann Morrison and Tom Tait, as well as the late Bob Brown’s son, Mark Brown — as we celebrate their achievements.
The program will begin informally the night before the convention with a 6pm meetup at Nevada Brew Works in the Arts District.
The registration fee to attend the entire conference is $90. Separate tickets are also available for the Hall of Fame Luncheon ($40) and Awards Banquet ($60). The registration fee and ticket prices will go up $10 each on Sept. 16. Prices are the same for both NPA members and their guests.
Advance registration for the convention will close at midnight on Tuesday, Sept. 20.
You can register for the event in several different ways:
– Register online here (pay by check or credit card)
– Register by phone at 775-885-0866 (pay by credit card)
– Register by mail via registration form (pay by check or credit card)
For those who need a hotel room in Las Vegas, our reduced rate at the Westgate is $159 plus a $25 resort fee. Click here to register in our room block. You can also call the Westgate (1-800-635-7711) and use group code SGNPF2 or group name Nevada Press Foundation.
THE DEADLINE FOR THE LOWER ROOM RATE EXPIRES FRIDAY, SEPT. 2.