The Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame is dedicated to men and women who have made a lasting impact on newspapers and journalism in the state over the course of their careers. Nominations may be made by using the form below or by emailing us at admin (at) nevadapress.com. They may …
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by Peter W. Wagner When my wife, Connie, and I founded our first publication, The Golden Shopper, we were still in the first year of our marriage. It was October 3, 1962. Our little town of Sibley had less than 2,500 population and we only printed 3,000 copies each week. The …
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Called a “take back the night” movement, The Relevance Project is a coordinated promotion and marketing campaign by the Newspaper Association Managers (NAM), which includes the Nevada Press Association. It’s designed to reposition, rebrand and harness the collective reach of 9,600 newspapers throughout the U.S. and Canada to create a …
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A bipartisan group of policymakers in the House of Representatives earlier this month introduced H.R. 7640, the Local Journalism Sustainability Act. The bill would provide a series of tax credits for news consumers, news organizations and local newspaper and broadcast advertisers, including the following: • A non-refundable tax credit for …
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Report for America announced recently that it has opened a new round of applications for news organizations interested in hosting emerging journalists for up to three years, beginning next June. RFA places talented reporters in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities. The program recruits journalists and pays …
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The Nevada Press Association Board of Directors has decided to cancel this year’s annual convention, which was scheduled to be held in Pahrump on Sept. 26. “We can’t predict the future,” said NPA President Noah Cusick, president of niche publications for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “But we know it’s unlikely …
Read More »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 …
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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 …
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By Al Cross Our country may not be in a depression, but the newspaper business is, and its fatality rate may be as great at that of the coronavirus. The pandemic and its economic restrictions have accelerated closures and mergers, which have increasingly affected county-seat weeklies, long the most stable …
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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, …
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