Rachel Crosby Just 24 hours after being named one of Nevada’s journalists of merit, Rachel Crosby was among the first reporters to respond to reports of a shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas that turned out to be the worst mass killing in the history of the …
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Three longtime Nevada journalists — the late Lisa Kim Bach, Associated Press sports columnist Tim Dahlberg, and veteran Las Vegas editor Don Ham — were inducted Saturday night into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame. Lisa Kim Bach A 1989 graduate in journalism and English from California State University, Fresno, …
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During a 43-year career in journalism, Don Ham led the Nevada Appeal in Carson City as editor for more than a decade before shaping coverage on the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s city desk for the next 20 years. A native of Southern California, he was formerly editor of the Lompoc Record, …
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Tim Dahlberg’s first job in journalism was at the Sparks Tribune, where he worked as reporter, sports editor, photographer, bottle washer and sometimes deliveryman. A student at the University of Nevada at the time, he told the editor he would work for free for the experience and he almost did, …
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A 1989 graduate in journalism and English from California State University, Fresno, Lisa Kim Bach started her career at the Modesto Bee, then the Clovis Independent, Fresno Bee and the News Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind., before joining the Las Vegas Review-Journal as a reporter in 1997. Her byline appeared …
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By Kevin Slimp I’ve been noticing a couple of patterns lately, and I wonder if you have been, too. More for fun than anything, and to keep up with as much as possible in the newspaper business, I created stateofnewspapers.com a few months back. A quick check at the unique …
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I was honored to be part of the ceremony this morning for striking a commemorative silver medallion to mark the 125th birthday of The Nevada Sagebrush, the student newspaper of the University of Nevada. Reno. At the Nevada State Museum in Carson City, where historic Coin Press No. 1 is …
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By Peter W. Wagner Some of you may remember the story, strongly circulated a decade ago, about a man who sold hot dogs along the side of a road. The man didn’t hear very well so he didn’t have a radio. He had eye problems, so he didn’t read the …
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The International Trade Commission has determined that American producers of newsprint weren’t harmed by imports from Canada, reversing tariffs imposed by the U.S. Commerce Department. Unfortunately, the damage already was done to newspapers across the United States over the past several months when the cost of the paper they are …
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It’s a sad day for the Nevada Press Association and journalists across Nevada. Mark Hinueber, who fought for them in court and behind the scenes as an attorney for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, has died. Here’s his obituary in the Review-Journal by Jane Ann Morrison. I’m proud to have known …
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