I guess it’s about time I contribute to this blog, especially as my first summer internship is coming to a close.
I’ve spent my summer working at the Home News, seven different community newspapers in the Las Vegas area. When I first got the job, I was petrified. The recruiter told me I would hopefully get [...]

They’re bound to happen in this field and for me, that day was last Sunday.
It all began Friday afternoon, when a senior editor asked me to come into his office and told me I was doing a good job. That conversation ended with me agreeing to watch the government gather wild horses out in the [...]

It’s a slow news day, so I’ve decided to oblige to the head honcho’s request and fill you in on my summer.
Jessica Estepa here, reporting from the insides of the Reno Gazette-Journal newsroom.
Yup, that’s right. Unlike some of my fellow Sagebrushers, I’ll be in town, hanging out and reporting this summer.
What that means for me: [...]

If our A&E editor didn’t scare you already, here he is in clown makeup. This week’s staff meeting did not feature Clint: A&E editor, it featured Clint-o the Curious Reporter Clown.
 
Now this by itself is entirely amusing. But as it turns out our News editor Jessica Estepa has a great fear of clowns, which was [...]

This blog is a opportunity for us to show you, the reader, the process our student editors, reporters, photographers and designers go through to make a weekly student newspaper. We spend a lot of our time arguing for transparency in government and our community – this is our opportunity to live up to that standard.