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At the Nevada State Museum last night, Anna Fallini Berg talked about the life her family has lived for 150 years on a ranch east of Tonopah. Then she gestured at the photos hanging on white gallery walls around her. There it was, her daily life distilled into iconic scenes …

On Tuesday’s episode of Nevada Newsmakers, former university regent Howard Rosenberg was asked about recent criticism of Chancellor Dan Klaich. After a few comments in defense of the university chancellor, who has been under fire recently, Rosenberg turned to what he sees as the problem. “What really bothers me is …

Sure seems to be a lot of fake news around. I’m not talking about the Onion, or other parody sites who are trying to be funny. I’m talking about wrong, false, outrageous ‘news’ passed from link to link, Facebook post to Facebook post, email to email. This YouTube video presents …

Hey, Reddit and Gawker, welcome to the world of publishing. The two sites recently had high-profile changes at the top as a result of old-fashioned disagreements over just how far they should push the envelope. Reddit’s management team started cleaning up some of the worst dregs of its subreddits, the …

For journalists, the best lesson from the Confederate flag came from Matthew Guterl, a professor of Africana and American studies at Brown University, in an interview with the Washington Post. Reporter Roberto Ferdman asked this: You’ve talked about how we live in this weird moment, where there are competing representations …

… is the internet, of course.  OK, I’m going there. At the risk of being swallowed by the online universe and spit out the other end as a decrepit, hopelessly out of date, moldering relic of the newspaper past — all of which I am, by the way — I’m …

There’s more than meets the eye to this recent ruling by a federal judge that a police body-cam video in Las Vegas is, indeed, a public record. (Thanks to Vanessa  Spinazola at ACLU for bringing this ruling to my attention.) First, it’s good news to open-government advocates that the judge …

Now a judge knows what it’s like to try to pry records out of an uncooperative Nevada agency. I should say another judge, as U.S. Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen isn’t the first to confront the problem. We saw it in several rulings on the Reno Gazette-Journal’s lawsuit to get access …

With the vast and unprecedented power of the internet to share news comes vast and unprecedented power also to shape the news people actually see. In this thoughtful piece for the Columbia Journalism Review, Trevor Timm explores the relationship between a major newspaper like the New York Times and social …