Fire coverage reveals lesson about reporter bias
In between tweeting live updates, updating stories and interviewing emergency officials for the Caughlin Fire during the past two days, I had something else to worry about: my grandfather, whose house was about a half a block away from the evacuation zone.
A look at the Sagebrush staff’s Halloween costume ideas
Despite being serious college journalists, we Sagebrushers like to have fun, too. Halloween is no exception. Take a glance at some of the costumes we’re planning to rock this weekend:
Remember to take a Sabbath during busy times
Our newspaper’s main story this week was about midterms (add link) and how they’re pretty unstructured, which can sometimes result in an overload of work for students.
The Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl from the sidelines
There is no doubt that watching Nevada’s postseason football game was memorable for nearly every fan in the stands. With about 40,000 fans chanting from all directions, the excitement was unmeasurable as the team worked to secure its first bowl game win since 2005. For the journalists at The Nevada Sagebrush, that intensity was kicked [...]
Blog: Sagebrush reporters camp out with Wolf Pack fans for tickets
It’s approaching 2 a.m. and it’s snowing. It’s cold. Freezing actually…literally. And Jessica Fryman, editor, and Lukas Eggen, sports editor, are braving the cold with nearly 200 other Wolf Pack fans in order to secure a spot in line for one of the 2,000 student tickets that will be given out at 8 a.m. Monday.
Keeping it fun
Bonjour! Mondays tend to be a day of high-stress and low-patience at the Sagebrush office. Our deadline always overrides everything else we do, clawing away at us as we try to edit a story, or edit a photo or lay out a page as fast as we can. Tensions run really high. Tempers flare at [...]
What Sagebrushers do mid-week: Watch Luke Babbitt dougie
Yes, that’s right. Luke Babbitt. Doing the “dougie.” Must see, anyone?
Top 10 Things we learned at the special session
Jessica Fryman and Jay Balagna of the Capitol Bureau (we’ve been wishing we could put that under our bylines all week) here. After spending six 15-plus hour days at the legislative building in downtown Carson City, we are finally driving back to Reno (Jay’s driving, I’m typing). We made the fast food joints up the [...]
Real men play football in the snow.
It’s not your ordinary Sunday at the University of Nevada, Reno when you wake up with more than a foot of snow outside. Sagebrush sports editor Juan Lopez, assistant sports editor Lukas Eggen, staff writer Brett Abel and I (Web developer Steve Prior) set out to take advantage of the weather by playing football in [...]