Updated to restore links, add some clarifications and editing. Here’s a point that seems to keep getting overlooked in the continuing inability of the Washoe County School Board to follow the state’s Open Meeting Law. Even when board members were trying to comply, they got bad advice from their attorneys. …
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Let us know if you have a story to submit for the 2015 Public Notice Journalism award. Entries should be news or feature stories that highlight the importance of public notice. Judges give positive weight to the use or linking of the public notice involved when there was one. The …
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The Sunshine in Government Initiative, a media coalition which has worked to increase government transparency for more than 10 years, applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for approving the “FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act of 2015” (H.R. 653) that improves the Freedom of Information Act. “Today’s vote to strengthen disclosure …
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Some recent reminders how readers appreciate newspapers and journalists. From a reader comment on a story in the Review-Journal about the police chief in Boulder City. From the Las Vegas Review-Journal web site on a story about title-loan lenders: Thank you for uplifting front pages Thank you for …
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Swift Communications has named Brooke Warner as general manager of its Northern Nevada operations, the Nevada Appeal reported on Sunday. Mark Raymond, currently publisher of the Appeal, will be retiring next month. In addition to overseeing the Appeal, Warner will be in charge of The Record-Courier in Minden-Gardnerville, the Lahontan …
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By Jim Stasiowski One of my favorite failures was my story about professional wrestling. (In my youth, it was called “wrassling,” and no, I didn’t see matches in the Colosseum in Rome. Mom and dad wouldn’t let me go.) The story was my idea. A young reporter in Florida back …
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By Kevin Slimp An editor in South Carolina wrote to me yesterday, “I’m always amazed at your productivity.” I get that a lot these days. Since yesterday, I’ve written an opinion piece that’s already filling my inbox with responses from readers; my fictional weekly serial, The Good Folks of Lennox …
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You are to be forgiven if you’re having trouble keeping up with developments at the Las Vegas Review-Journal. As of Wednesday, the newspaper has a new interim editor in Glenn Cook and a policy (below) for how to deal with potential conflicts of interest in covering its new owners. R-J …
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Las Vegas Review-Journal Editor Mike Hengel told staff members Tuesday evening he has accepted a buyout and is leaving the paper, the latest twist in the ongoing story of the newspaper’s sale. The brief story on Hengel’s resignation in today’s edition was accompanied by an announcement from the new owners …
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While the dust begins to settle over the purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the best inside-the-newsroom story I’ve seen comes from Michael Calderone at HuffPost Media with his ‘How they did it’ story. It shows the pure journalism ethic of Review-Journal reporters and editors who put their heads down …
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