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 …
Read More »Dennis Myers
A resident of Reno from age five, Dennis Myers cut a wide swath through Nevada media and politics. In the late 1960s, he attended the University of Nevada-Reno where he wrote for The Sagebrush student newspaper and covered the Nevada Legislature for Reno and Las Vegas radio stations. For many …
Read More »Congratulations to a couple of new publishers
Congratulations to Gary Cook, an NPA board member who has moved to the Sparks Tribune from the Ely Times, and to Rob Galloway, who has taken over at the Tahoe Daily Tribune after working for the Reno Gazette-Journal. In Sparks, Cook replaces Kent Lauer, former executive director of NPA. Cook …
Read More »John Cahlan
John Cahlan, who started in the newspaper business by hawking copies on street corners as a boy, rose to become editor of two of the state’s largest and oldest newspapers. His earliest renown, however, was as a sportscaster. As a student at the University of Nevada in Reno, he announced …
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