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The Nevada Supreme  Court has applied the state’s shield law to journalists who work for online-only news outlets in the case of a Virginia City blogger who was sued for libel by a county commissioner and brothel owner. “Just because a newspaper can exist online, it does not mean it …

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) recently received a grant from the Knight Foundation to hire lawyers to provide pro bono legal support for journalists in up to five jurisdictions. The goal of the Washington-based nonprofit’s Local Legal Initiative is “to help local journalists and news organizations …

Steve Ranson, retired editor, contributing writer, Lahontan Valley News  by Kim Palchikoff How did you get into the media business?  I became interested in journalism when I was a teenager in the late 1960s. In high school, I was a disc jockey, newscaster and radio play-by-play sportscaster for KBET Radio …

Nevada will be among the states to benefit from The Associated Press’s collaboration with Report for America to add 14 statehouse reporters, providing local newsrooms with essential accountability journalism and state government coverage. Report for America, an initiative of The GroundTruth Project, will help fund the 18-month positions and recruit …

By Peter W. Wagner There’s times when producing a community paper can seem like being in a circus. One moment you are the acrobat balancing your way across a high wire and the next you’re the featured clown. I learned, while attending seminars in Massachusetts recently, that the small tent …

Now an emeritus faculty member, Professor Bob Felten taught and mentored students in the Reynolds School of Journalism for nearly 30 years. He served on the boards of the American Marketing Association and the American Advertising Federation, advocating for progress within the industry and acting as a bridge between these …

Hali Bernstein Saylor, Boulder City Review Tell us about yourself. I was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California and graduated from California State University, Northridge with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, I ultimately landed in the Las Vegas area in 2001. My husband and I …

By Peter Wagner I’m amazed at how the traditional, over-the-air, television networks consistently report that “newspapers are dead.” Their anchors report that story time and again, but never report their own losses in viewership. The most recent example took place on the Oct. 6, 2019, broadcast of CBS News Sunday …

The Department of Labor published its final rule on Sept. 27, 2019, increasing the threshold used to determine the exempt status of white-collar employees under the minimum wage and overtime rules of the Fair Labor Standards Act. While the new threshold in the final rule may require some small market …

Moving from routine to highly relevant By Bart Pfankuch This column is aimed at every single journalist working anywhere in the world now and in the future. That’s a big bill to fill, but with tips to improve coverage of any type of meeting, the following concepts apply both to …