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Looking for some ideas on how to turn your newspaper around? Search no further than this story on the Malheur Enterprise, the weekly newspaper in Vale, Ore., which has made headlines in recent months for its prize-winning stories and tenacity in surviving — actually, thriving — at a time when …

By Kevin Slimp So much to write about, so little space. It’s been a whirlwind of a week for me, beginning in Knoxville, Tenn., where I caught a flight for a “quick trip” to Winnipeg, before heading home for a couple of days, then heading to Sioux Falls, S.D., and …

Pat Bridges, publisher for the Record-Courier in Douglas County, retired on April 19 after six years with the newspaper. Here’s editor Kurt Hildebrand’s column on Pat’s retirement and career, which was with Carson City-based Swift Communications over the past decade. He was a sales representative for the Tampa Tribune, worked …

The Reynolds School of Journalism will host a First Amendment forum featuring Lucy Dalglish and Trevor Timm starting at 7 p.m. April 25 in the theater of the Joe Crowley Student Union on the campus of the University of Nevada in Reno. Dalglish, a media lawyer and dean of the …

Leila Fadel had just moved to Las Vegas when breaking news interrupted her regular beat. In fact, it was the biggest breaking news ever to hit Las Vegas — the Oct. 1 massacre at the Route 91 Harvest music festival, when a gunman murdered 58 people and left another 851 …

The Territorial Enterprise building in Virginia City has been nominated for recognition by the Society of Professional Journalists as a Historic Site in Journalism. The nomination was submitted last month by Joey Lovato, a reporter and podcast producer, as an independent study project for the journalism school at the University …

By Bart Pfankuch When I returned to full-time reporting and writing three months ago, I had to skip the warm-up period. As the lone writer for a new non-profit, public-service news service, my task was to immediately develop enterprise material of statewide interest in South Dakota. It hasn’t been easy, …

By Peter Wagner Newspapers and shopper publications in Iowa and surrounding states are again carrying a major grocery chain insert that pulled out of all papers the end of December. I am purposely leaving out the name of the chain. The return of the insert is good news for us …

Nevada’s Supreme Court solidly reinforced the state’s public records law by ruling Thursday that government officials can’t hide the public’s business on personal cell phones and computers. In siding with the Comstock Residents Association, the court said: “The use of private entities in the provision of public services must not …