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 …
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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 »No Stigma Nevada: The ‘Talk’ Everybody Needs To Have –By Kim Palchikoff- Watching the horrific May 25 police murder of African-American George Floyd replayed again and again on video and the weeks-long protests and riots in Nevada and across the world reminds me of “the talk” my father gave me …
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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 …
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No Stigma Nevada- Carson City therapist: How to deal with stress and despair -By Kim Palchikoff. As the COVID-19 pandemic death toll reaches nearly 100,000 in the U.S. and continues to rise, as do the numbers of unemployed, living with fear, anxiety, stress and even despair has become the new …
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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 »No Stigma Nevada It’s the worst time to skimp on mental-health resources By Kim Palchikoff Mental Health Awareness Month arrives this year with Nevada facing a crisis it has failed to handle in the past and remains ill-prepared to deal with now. You don’t need to read reports and statistics …
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No-Stigma Nevada “Curbside Nevada: A helpline for doctors, by doctors.” -As told to Kim Palchikoff by Dr. Lesley Dickson, a psychiatrist for 34 years. Often medical personnel treating patients with COVID-19 experience enormous psychological stress. In late April, 14 Nevada psychiatrists, including three from Reno, established “Curbside Nevada,” a …
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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 …
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No Stigma Nevada –By Kim Palchikoff Former Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa: Optimism, a return to normalcy and cleaning the refrigerator Most Nevadans know Frankie Sue Del Papa as the Silver State’s first female Attorney General. But there’s a lot Nevadans don’t know about the former Democratic Party …
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