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Angel DeFazio, who got a trespassing citation for recording a Public Utilities Commission hearing with a video camera, called to talk to me about the open meeting law. The 62-year-old Las Vegas resident is a reporter for Vegas Voice, a newspaper for seniors, although the Las Vegas Review-Journal called her …

If you’ve been waiting for a good time to tour Carson City’s historic west side, tomorrow (Oct. 24) is the day. The Ghost Walk will be strolling the neighborhood starting at 10 a.m. and continuing the tours until 2:30 p.m. Check out the web site for details. We’re pleased to …

Now that ‘Back to the Future’ is in the past, we wanted to show that movie wasn’t alone in predicting the longevity of newspapers. First, of course, the USA Today edition from ‘Back to the Future’: But there is also George Jetson, who gets his edition delivered digitally: And Blade …

If people call you crazy long enough, pretty soon you begin to question your sanity. For the past 20 years or so, the demise of print newspapers has pretty much been a foregone conclusion of anyone who was involved in digital delivery of news. As Kevin Slimp points out occasionally, …

Belated welcomes to a couple of new editors — Caitlin Row, at the Tahoe Daily Tribune, and Henry Kingman, at Winnemucca Publishing — who have been on the job for about a month now. A Wisconsin native, Row was working for Swift publications in Colorado when she moved to South …

  Update: Four reporters for the Reno Gazette-Journal are taking Gannett’s buyout package and will be retiring  next week. Here’s the story in the RGJ. The four — Ray Hagar, Bill O’Driscoll, Susan Skorupa and Jeff Delong — all are longtime journalists in Northern Nevada. O’Driscoll has been with the …

Among all the individual awards at the annual Nevada Press Association convention, one of the most important and prestigious of our honors sometimes gets overlooked. The award — for community service — recognizes the effort that newspapers and their staffs make to be leaders and contributors, whether it be for …

So far, we have two wildly different accounts of the confrontation at Tesla’s gigafactory which led to the arrest of a Reno Gazette-Journal photographer. First came the RGJ’s story on the arrest of Andy Barron on Oct. 9. It was followed four days later by a blog post by Tesla …

Here’s what I hate — I said in my best Andy Rooney impersonation. Ogus and his successor Craig Evans, the interim chair of the Berkeley math department, said confidentiality rules prevented them speaking publicly about Coward’s case and referred queries to the university’s spokesperson. And … In a statement Janet …

For the better part of 30 years, I had a police scanner sitting on my desk. A black box with a speaker and an antenna, its row of red lights cycled endlessly through the channels of various police, fire and emergency departments. Depending on the city where I sat in …