By Jim Stasiowski Jean Coleman hired me in 1976 even though I had neither a journalism degree nor experience in writing for a newspaper. Although I wanted to be a reporter, she hired me for the only job she had open at the small Florida newspaper she edited: night and …
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I went to the local chapter of the Online News Association’s get-together in Reno this week to hear what several attendees learned from the recent ONA conference in Washington, D.C. Below is the synopsis provided by these six — Caren Roblin, Karolina Rivas, Natalie VanHoozer, Anjeanette Damon, Brian Duggan and Melody …
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Alfred Doten moved to Nevada in 1863 to participate in the silver boom but soon began work as a reporter on the Como Sentinel, Virginia Daily Union, Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, and Gold Hill Daily News, which he bought in 1872 and guided to a legacy as one of the …
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A.L. Higginbotham taught journalism at the University of Nevada for 43 years and, in many ways, can be considered a founder of the Nevada Press Association and this Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame. In 1924, a group of Nevada editors met in Austin and then, three months later, at the …
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A journalist for 36 years, including 25 years as Las Vegas bureau manager for United Press International, Myram Borders broke news, fought for Nevada’s Open Meeting Law and mentored young reporters. Her efforts to allow cameras in the Nevada courtrooms were a major step forward for print and television journalism …
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Bill Roberts, a Tonopah native and University of Nevada, Reno graduate, was a mainstay for three decades for Central Nevada Newspapers, which he formed in 1975 with his parents and wife, Bobby Jean. The newspaper group included some of Nevada’s most historic newspapers — the Tonopah Times-Bonanza and Goldfield News, …
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A Kansas publisher emailed me last month seeking information on how to respond to businesses who say they’ve “placed their sale or event on Facebook so they don’t need a newspaper ad.” The businesses think, the publisher said, that “the Facebook posting is essentially free and generates at least some …
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The Las Vegas Review-Journal is the state’s largest newspaper and has had teams of reporters and photographers working across the city since the shooting started last night. The Las Vegas Sun, although it shares print distribution with the Review-Journal, operates an independent newsroom and also has reporters and photographers covering …
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By Jim Stasiowski What the young woman said decades ago still haunts me. In those days, I was a youngster in the ranks of writing coaches, most of whom were renowned writers or editors from prestigious newspapers. I had had a good run as a reporter, columnist and editor, though …
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