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Four journalists who had a lasting impact in Nevada will be inducted into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame next month, the Nevada Press Foundation announced today. Steve Carp, Jane Ann Morrison, Tom Tait and the late Bob Brown will be honored at a lunch ceremony to be held at the organizations’ Annual Convention and Awards Banquet in Las Vegas on Saturday, Sept. 24.
The four journalists were approved for admission to the Hall of Fame late last month by the Nevada Press Foundation Board of Trustees. All four spent the bulk of their career and had their biggest impact in Las Vegas.
Bob Brown was a colorful figure who made his most significant contribution to Nevada journalism as owner and publisher of the North Las Vegas Valley Times. He bought the paper in 1973 and turned it into a daily that was “a must-read publication for politicians, business people and gamers,” said Jane Ann Morrison in the Review-Journal. He assembled a talented staff of reporters, including eventual Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame members Ned Day and A.D. Hopkins. (More on Brown.)
Steve Carp’s work as an award-winning sports reporter in Nevada began in 1988 at the Las Vegas Sun. For the next 30-plus years, for about 20 of which he reported for the Review-Journal, the Brooklyn native covered every major sporting event in Las Vegas, including legendary moments in college and professional football and basketball, boxing, hockey, baseball, golf and soccer. In 2018, he left the Review-Journal to become senior editor of Gaming Today, where he managed a staff of 32. (More on Carp.)
Jane Ann Morrison worked for four newspapers over 48 years and during most of that period she was based in Las Vegas, reporting on everything from the mob to gaming and politics. She worked for the Review-Journal on and off for 38 of those years, starting as a night cops reporter and eventually becoming the R-J’s first female general interest columnist in 2003. She also served as the Reno Gazette-Journal’s Las Vegas bureau chief for the back half of the 1980’s. (More on Morrison.)
Tom Tait’s name wasn’t in the byline but as the Associated Press news editor in Las Vegas he has had a hand in every major story in Nevada for the last 22 years. The roster of reporters Tait managed speaks volumes. He joined a Nevada AP staff that included eventual Hall of Fame members Robert Macy, Tim Dahlberg and Brendan Riley. He also hired or guided dozens of gifted AP journalists, including Pulitzer Prize winners Adam Goldman and Hannah Dreier. (More on Tait.)
Carp, Morrison, Tait and Brown’s surviving children plan to attend the Hall of Fame Lunch at the Westgate Resort and Casino next month to celebrate with us as we honor their extraordinary work and storied careers.