Few people embodied community journalism the way Anne Pershing did over her 33-year career as a reporter, editor, general manager and columnist. The toughest times for her were during her reporting of the leukemia cluster in Fallon, when she was writing about people she loved and cared for. She kept …
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By Jim Stasiowslki When I got my first newspaper job in 1976, my dad, a creative craftsman, took a 14-inch-high metal sculpture he had inherited from his dad, another innovator, and turned it into a desk lamp for me. The sculpture, which resides proudly in my office, is of a …
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By Jim Pumarlo A mayor takes issue with an editorial that criticized a city council action, calling your facts into question. Irate parents challenge your decision – your right – to report their son didn’t dress for the basketball game because he was suspended for violating school policy. A pastor …
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By Ken Blum Sing along, please: There’s a time for joy A time for tears A time we’ll treasure through the years We’ll remember always Graduation Day Okay, so no you’ll never be invited to join the Four Freshmen or the Beach Boys, but I hope you’re in the spirit …
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“Print is dead.” I heard that line in a movie I was watching last night, and it resonated more than ever. That’s because the movie was “Ghostbusters,” released in 1984, just a few years after I had embarked on my career as a journalist. The line is delivered by Harold …
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Had the numbers been for a newspaper, the critics would have been aghast. Readership fell by 50 percent from 2014. Less than 10 percent of readers from a peak in 2013. Layoffs of 16 people on a 97-person staff. “Print is dead,” they would have announced. “The future is online. …
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I wanted to pass along this obituary in tribute to one of this country’s foremost leaders in championing press freedoms. By STACY RYBURN Tulsa World Staff Writer A lot happened in those after-hours nights when Ben Blackstock, executive vice president and secretary of the Oklahoma Press Association, would have drinks …
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It’s painful to watch, yes. But as journalists it’s impossible to look away. I’m talking about the latest turmoil at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where three-decade columnist (and multiple NPA award-winner) John L. Smith has resigned. As I said this morning on Joe Schoenmann’s show on KNPR, “I’m sure they …
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A recent ruling by a Clark County district judge has bolstered Nevada’s already-strong shield law. As explained in this story by Sandra Chereb for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the shield was extended to a documentary filmmaker who had interviewed a witness in a criminal trial. Lawyers for Robert Sharpe III, …
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