Newspapers Published in Las Vegas, Nevada - Las Vegas Review-Journal, Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas Weekly, Summerlin News, Las Vegas Mercury (Paperback)

Chapters: Las Vegas Review-Journal, Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas Weekly, Summerlin News, Las Vegas Mercury, the Century. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 21. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Las Vegas Review-Journal is published in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. It is the largest circulating daily newspaper in Nevada, and one of two daily newspapers in Las Vegas (The Greenspun Corporation-owned Las Vegas Sun is distributed with it). It is the flagship publication of Stephens Media LLC. The Review-Journal takes a libertarian editorial stance, particularly compared to the Las Vegas Sun, with which it has a joint operating agreement that runs through 2040. In 2005, the Sun ceased afternoon publication and began distribution as a section of the Review-Journal. The publisher of the Review-Journal is Sherman Frederick. The Clark County Review was first printed in 1909 and became the Las Vegas Review in 1926. In March 1929, the Clark County Journal began publication, and in July of that year, the Review bought the Journal and began co-publication as the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal. In the early 1940s, the owners of the RJ bought the Las Vegas Age, which began publication in 1905 and was the oldest surviving paper in Las Vegas. The word "evening" was dropped from the name in 1949, after Donald W. Reynolds and his Donrey Media Group bought the paper. The RJ published a morning and evening edition from that point until the late 1980s, when the Las Vegas Sun began afternoon publication. The paper signed on Las Vegas' third television station, KLRJ-TV, in 1955, later changing the calls to KORK-TV. The station changed its call letters again to KVBC in 1980, which it remains today. Reynolds died in 1993, and longtime friend Jack Stephens bought his company, renamed it Stephens Media and...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=262428