The Nevada Press Association Board of Directors last week approved a proposal to change the trade association’s membership dues schedule in 2022. Under the new schedule, Regular Member and Affiliate Member dues rates will be based on newsroom Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs) rather than circulation or readership. FTEs measure an organization’s …
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Earlier this month, Nevada Press Association President Nancy Streets appointed Greenspun Media’s Dave Mondt to a vacant position on the NPA Board of Directors. Mondt replaces Ric Anderson, a veteran board member and former NPA President who recently left Nevada to take a position with a digital news operation in …
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Online Entry The Nevada Press Foundation sponsors the Awards of Excellence and uses an online entry and judging system hosted by SmallTownPapers, Inc. The main contest page is betternewspapercontest.com, where contestants go to submit their entries digitally. Seven categories still require hard copies to be mailed, but even those must be …
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By Jim Pumarlo Election coverage was a priority when I toiled behind the editor’s desk. It was all-hands-on-deck in the newsroom as we sought information to help voters make their choices. As a final step, we endorsed in all races from the city council to U.S. president. Many newspapers today, …
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During Sunshine Week, four of Nevada’s most respected journalists shared via Facebook Live how they overcame open government obstacles and used Nevada’s public records law to report on some of the most pressing issues facing the state. The Nevada Open Government Coalition hosted the discussion, moderated by The Nevada Independent’s …
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Updated April 8, 2022 The Contest Committee of the Nevada Press Foundation met twice via Zoom in the last six weeks and recommended a few modest changes in the rules for the 2022 Awards of Excellence competition. Those changes were approved by the Foundation’s Board of Trustees. The committee added …
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By Al Cross This column is titled “Into the Issues” because it began as an effort to help community newspapers explore issues that affected their communities, sometimes from afar. It has evolved to include editorial issues that face community papers. But for an increasing number of papers, the main issue …
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Award winning writer, journalist and publisher, David W. Toll passed away at his home in Gold Hill on Sunday, February 13 after a lengthy illness. David Toll was born in Los Angeles to Carroll C. Toll and Jessie Gorham Toll on July 24, 1936 and grew up in Santa Barbara. …
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When Teresa Stewart was laid off from The Ely Times during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, she took a job at a local clinic. She worked there five months before realizing she missed the hustle and bustle of newspaper work. But in a small town, there aren’t many …
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By Jim Pumarlo I fondly characterize newsrooms as organized chaos. I witnessed that firsthand guiding staffs when resources were plentiful and community newspapers had captive audiences. Dynamics are even more frayed in today’s changing media landscape as editors grapple with diminished resources and increased constraints on news gathering. Editors and …
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