Hold the date! The Nevada Press Association’s Annual Convention and Awards Banquet will be held Saturday, Sept. 18 at the Depot Craft Brewery Distillery in downtown Reno. We’ll meet for beers at the Reno Gazette Journal the Friday afternoon before the convention and will join together in a Reno Pub Crawl later …
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Here is the first in a series of profiles about new members that have been admitted into the Nevada Press Association since non-newspapers were granted full membership rights in 2019. By Nevada Press Association This Is Reno is perhaps as good an example as any of how news organizations are …
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By Ken Paulson The 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence knew what they were getting into. As we celebrate the 4th of July 245 years later with flags and fireworks, it’s easy to forget that these patriots risked death to give a new nation life. If you’ve never …
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On Thursday, May 13, the Nevada Press Association Board of Directors held a meeting via Zoom and approved three new publications as affiliate members of the organization. By the end of the day, only two of them were still publishing. After its membership application was approved, the Mesquite Citizen …
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Nevada Press Association can help you advertise We can help you advertise your products or services in Nevada newspapers through statewide classifieds or display ads. Or choose the region that suits you best. Let’s get started. Classified advertising The NVCAN network is for classified advertising — the text-only ads that …
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By Peter W. Wagner One of the best bits of advice I received before starting The N’West Iowa REVIEW came from the editor of the newspaper where we would be printing the new paper. “You need to write a weekly column,” he told me. “You need to let your readers …
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By Peter W. Wagner There’s a small women’s clothing boutique in our town whose owner claims to have 2,400 Facebook followers. It’s a claim that begs the question, how does a small-town boutique attract almost 25 hundred followers? In larger markets most of the specialty stores have professional agencies regularly …
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By Bart Pfankuch Of all the threats to the credibility of American journalists today, and there are many, the most damaging may be the result of a purely self-inflicted wound. The misuse of social media by reporters and editors — particularly on Twitter and Facebook — has made it easy …
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This column was written in honor of Sunshine Week (March 14-20, 2021), an annual national initiative to promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Go to sunshineweek.org to learn more. Unbeknownst to Nevada officials, the state has been conducting a natural experiment …
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For advocates of open government in Nevada, two of the most problematic bills introduced so far in the 2021 legislative session would override the state’s existing transparency standards in favor of more-secretive rules imported from the federal government. Assembly Bill 39, sponsored by the Department of Public Safety, would create …
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