Since the late 1990s, Mike Kelley has been managing editor of the Las Vegas
Sun. He's seen it through its last days as a separate newspaper and he was
present at the creation of the current Review-Journal insert.
The liberal pressure group, ProgessNow Nevada, has launched a Web site it
says will hold the Las Vegas Review-Journal accountable for the way in which
it has been "offering readers slanted coverage and in some cases
manufactured news." We talk with the group's executive director Erin Neff
to see what the new site hopes to achieve.
NBC affiliate KVBC-TV has filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission alleging other local TV stations gave favored coverage in their newscasts to local businesses that bought ads. If true, the stations would have breached FCC regulations but reporters in the newsrooms of the other three stations say they know nothing about it.
Laura Belle Gang was born in Cincinnati and eventually moved to Los Angeles where she met her husband, Maxwell Kelch, a broadcast engineer. The two moved to Las Vegas in 1939 when they realized they wanted to open a radio station and discovered there wasn't one in Las Vegas.
Alexandra Berzon, reporter, LV Sun
Drex Heikes, Deputy Managing Ed, LV Sun
... on the series on construction deaths that won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
Stacy Artund, founder, Moment of Thanks
...on the new website, set to officially launch next week, that will allow people to upload a video thank-you note to the US Troops.
Jon Ralston, Host, "Face to Face" on Las Vegas One [Cox 19], and Political Columnist, LV Sun
Jane Ann Morrison, Columnist, LVRJ
Chuck Muth, Blogger and Conservative Activist, Chuckmuth.com and BattleBornNews
Doug McMurdo, Assoc Ed, Elko Daily Free Press.
Prof Carl Sessions Stepp, Journalism, U of Maryland and Sr Ed, AJR
... on why newspapers aren't dying, they're changing. And how the winners will figure out how to make it work.
Doug Elfman, Entertainment Reporter, LVRJ
... on his recent return to Las Vegas and what it was like covering politics in New Orleans, television in Chicago and Music in Atlanta.
