With so many of Main Street’s retail stores closing — and the loss of their weekly retail ads — newspapers and shoppers need to find new ways to promote and sell advertising. One way is to produce profitable, multi-market special sections that attract the attention of a wide band of …
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The Nevada Press Association Board of Directors voted unanimously last week to hold the 2021 convention in Reno. The annual event was last held in Reno in 2007. “We’re looking forward to hosting the next Nevada Press Association convention in the Biggest Little City next year — assuming we’re able …
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The Nevada Press Association elected a new president and two new board members at its 2020 Annual Meeting, held Oct. 15 via videoconference. It was the first time in the history of the organization the meeting wasn’t conducted in person. As expected, Reno Gazette Journal Executive Editor Brian Duggan (pictured …
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High School student Johnny Jenkins, the local jeweler’s son, hit two bases-loaded home runs during the school’s baseball game last Friday. But most of the locals won’t know about Jenkins’ batting proficiency until the paper comes out next Wednesday. The community appreciates the local team, but few actually attend the …
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by Trudy Lieberman, Community Health News Service Steve Schneider owns a digital marketing agency in Indiana where he insures six people on the company’s health insurance plan – two employees and their dependents – for about $37,000 a year. He says it’s an “ultra-high” deductible plan that requires each family …
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Here are the results of the 2020 Nevada Press Foundation Awards of Excellence, honoring the best in Nevada journalism, advertising, design and photography. The top link (“Awards Tabloid”) is a PDF of the 24-page tabloid featuring the complete results along with judges’ comments as well as photos and graphics from …
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Five journalists who collectively span three centuries and the 450 miles between Las Vegas and Reno-Tahoe, were inducted into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame today. Nellie Mighels Davis, Don Digilio, Dennis Myers, Cory Farley and Thomas Mitchell are the latest journalists to join Silver State giants like Mark Twain, …
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Cory Farley has been one of the luminaries of Northern Nevada journalism, appearing regularly in print since 1981. His easygoing, comfortable prose quickly established him as one of the Reno Evening Gazette’s top news feature writers, and his subsequent left-of-center column writing has made him one of the most-read writers …
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Don Digilio was employed at the Las Vegas Review-Journal for more than 20 years, working his way up from reporter and columnist to become the paper’s top editor in 1969. According to the Online Nevada Encyclopedia, Digilio “returned stability” to the Review-Journal newsroom during his tenure as editor. “Don fit …
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Thomas Mitchell has a lifelong record of outstanding journalism, distinguishing himself as both an editor and columnist. As the newsroom leader of Nevada’s largest newspaper for two decades, he also did as much as any other journalist in the history of the state to defend and expand public access to …
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