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The Nevada Press Association on Saturday inducted four new members to the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame — Myram Borders, Bill Roberts, Alf Doten and A.L Higginbotham. Myram Borders A journalist for 36 years, including 25 years as Las Vegas bureau manager for United Press International, Myram Borders broke news, …

For a brief history of journalism in Nevada, read Jake Highton’s article for Nevada Humanities. Alphabetical list. To read about a Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame member, select a name below or click on a photo above.

National Newspaper Week (Oct. 1-7) is coming up fast, and here are resources for NPA members to use to promote it. There are columns, cartoons, house ads, logos and other promotional materials. NPA already has contributed to the effort, so they are free to our members. Here’s an excerpt from …

By Kevin Slimp I guess it comes with experience (that sounds better than “age”). In the “old days” when I visited a newspaper, it was almost always related to hardware, software or some other type of technology. These days, it might be just about anything. Such was the case in …

By Peter W. Wagner It’s time to get real if newspapers want to dominate the local market. The really big dollars will be found in our community newspapers and not our one-of-many-in-the-community websites.

 Print advertising provides a gerater return. Anyone can create a website in your market. All they need is a computer and …

We’re sprucing up the place for the upcoming Nevada Press Association convention. When I say “we” I really mean the painters from Home Innovative Painting in Sparks, who are giving the Rinckel Mansion (also known as the Reynolds Press Center, also known as the home of the Nevada Press Association) …

The Reno Gazette-Journal is partnering with the Journalism School at UNR to host a session by Les Zaitz at noon on Sept. 21 in the RGJ’s newsroom called “Small newsrooms doing big things.” Here’s where to get more info and register. Zaitz will be in Reno to accept the prestigious Frank …

 The threat to legal requirements that public notices be published in newspapers has never been greater. Learn about the trends in public notice and the practices that every paper must embrace to help the industry successfully respond to the siege on this traditional pillar of government transparency. Click here to …

Wells Drury was known as the fighting editor of the Comstock. On his first day at the Gold Hill News in 1876, his boss asked him, “Can you shoot?” He wasn’t talking about photographs. Find out what happened that day, as well as other tales of the Nevada Newspaper Hall …

The Nevada Independent, an online news source and member of the Nevada Press Association, announced this week that it will be sharing content with rural newspapers at no cost to them. Specifically, the Battle Born Media papers — in Mesquite, Ely, Eureka, Sparks and Lincoln and Mineral counties — have …