by jpitney | Aug 30, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists, Nevada
April Rubin and Sara Fischer at Axios: Former Las Vegas county politician Robert Telles was found guilty Wednesday of murdering a local journalist who had written critically about him. The big picture: The 2022 murder of Las Vegas Review-Journal...
by jpitney | Oct 24, 2022 | Elections, Nevada, Public Service
At WP, Dana Milbank reports on the impending election fiasco in Nevada: The election supervisors in 10 of the state’s 17 counties have already quit, been forced out or announced their departures. Lower-level election workers have quit in the face of consistent abuse....
by jpitney | Oct 20, 2022 | Elections, Nevada, Public Service
Linda So, Joseph Tanfani and Jason Szep at Reuters: Businessman Robert Beadles claimed he had found evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. Then he went on the attack, targeting a 48-year-old woman who runs elections in Nevada’s Washoe County. “Now,...
by jpitney | Oct 6, 2022 | Crime, Journalism, Journalists, Nevada
Sarah Ellison at WP: It was after midnight when Las Vegas Review-Journal executive editor Glenn Cook hit send on a short email to the staff. “I’m beyond devastated to be sending you this message,” he wrote. Veteran investigative reporter Jeff German had been found...
by jpitney | Sep 26, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Nevada
At the Las Vegas Review-Jounral, Christopher Lawrence remembers Jeff German, who died this month, allegedly at the hands of a politician he had exposed. German was an old-school journalist in every sense of the word. Cultivating sources. Gaining their trust. Working...
by jpitney | Sep 10, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Nevada
This past week, a Clark County official allegedly murdered Las Vegas Review-Journal journalist Jeff German James Rainey and Brittny Mejia at LA Times: Murders of journalists connected to their work remain a rarity in the United States, especially compared with...
