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A First Amendment forum on April 23 in Reno will feature a discussion on the right to freely criticize public officials and figures. Here’s the announcement In a polarized nation, is the strong standard set by New York Times v. Sullivan irrelevant? Should we reconsider the First Amendment right to …

Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame member A.D. Hopkins was greeted by newspaper friends south and north as he signed his new book, “The Boys Who Woke Up Early,” at events in Las Vegas and Reno last month. The book is a fictional account of growing up at the end of …

Online Entry The Nevada Press Association uses an online entry and judging system through SmallTownPapers. The main contest page is betternewspapercontest.com. Rather than clipping stories, ads and photos, you upload files to a web site. A few categories, such as general excellence, still require the hard copy to be mailed …

Would you like to volunteer to serve on the Nevada Press Association’s board of directors? For the most part, board members represent regular members of the association — the newspapers qualified under Nevada statute to publish public notices. There is also one spot on the board to represent associate members, …

Welcome to the Better Magazine Contest Thanks for your interest in the magazines-only class in the Nevada Press Association contest. The categories are adapted from the Better Newspaper Contest to fit a magazine format. (Note that not every category available in the newspaper contest is available to magazines.) The class is …

By Peter Wagner Have you noticed that all the really successful online retailers offer free delivery? Amazon sets the bar high with Amazon Prime two-day delivery of everything from A to Z. Their product inventory includes everything from a difficult-to-find book to necessary groceries for dinner that night. Target has purchased …

By Bart Pfankuch I think as journalists we can all agree that there is no such thing as an “over-sourced” story. Readers will never complain that a reporter talked to too many people, read too many reports or examined too many documents. A well-sourced article or feature story is easy …

By Peter Wagner Smaller ads sold mostly to locally-owned businesses are a part of a community paper’s DNA. There weren’t any supermarkets, department stores or automobile dealerships when the majority of midwestern newspapers began publishing at the turn of the last century.  I have a framed copy of the Jan. …

By Richard Karpel The first truly horrendous bill of 2019 is barreling our way. Senate Bill 224 would hide the names of all members of Nevada’s Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) from public scrutiny. Anonymized information about the PERS system would still be subject to public records requests, but there …