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Nevada Supreme Court justices will be looking at how courts statewide handle the names of minors in filings — when they should be kept confidential and when they should be public. Current practices appear to vary around the state. Justice Nancy Saitta petitioned the court to amend its rules to …

Each day of the year, I read dozens of news stories — interesting, dull, entertaining, poorly written and researched, provocative, mind-numbing. It takes all kinds. But this time of the year, I get to read the best of the best. I’m in the process of confirming 1,400-some entries for the …

We received 1,446 entries for the 2016 Better Newspaper and Magazine contests, down a bit from past years. That’s not surprising, as we pared a couple of categories and replaced a few. The last few years we’ve averaged about 1,550 entries. Now that the deadline for submissions has passed, what …

Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame member Anne Pershing was remembered at a memorial service in Reno on Thursday as a dedicated and compassionate journalist. Close to 100 people attended the memorial at The Grove for Pershing, a former Nevada Press Association president and board member whose career in newspapers spanned …

Complaints to the Nevada attorney general of violations of the state’s open-meeting law have continued to decline over the past half-dozen years, according to the attorney who investigates them. Since January 2014, the Attorney General’s Office has averaged 32 complaints a year, according to George Taylor, the senior deputy who …

Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, explains in this brief Ted Talk how the federal government uses its electronic surveillance of journalists to crack down on whistleblowers. Timm made this point during a panel discussion last month in Las Vegas, where Patrick File convened a …

By Richard Moreno During the past century and a third, more than 800 newspapers have been published in Nevada. Most have sported traditional newspaper names — like Lahontan Valley News — but a few have had more unusual titles. The following are some of the most bizarre newspaper names ever …

Published for delegates to the September 1998 Reno convention of the National Newspaper Association and Nevada Press Association. By Kent Lauer On Aug. 10, 1924, eight Nevada editors and publishers met at the Lander County Courthouse in the central Nevada town of Austin. Representing newspapers from Elko, Tonopah, Austin and …

In journalism, as with other professions, using somebody else’s work and claiming it as your own is a serious ethical violation. We call it plagiarism. People get fired for it. There is also a longstanding practice of using somebody else’s idea and making it your own. Often, you simply give …

By Kevin Slimp If a person hangs around long enough, he’s bound to get noticed. That’s my theory anyway. When asked why I receive so many requests for help from newspapers, I simply mark it down to longevity. I’ve been around the business long enough for most publishers, and others, …