In The News: Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies
High-rolling sports bettor and golf course developer Billy Walters’ long run of good fortune in Las Vegas may have come to an end with his indictment this week on 10 federal charges alleging insider trading and wire fraud.
Late last year, the family of billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson purchased the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper, the largest newspaper in the state; since then, reporters and editors have left; new reporters and editors have been hired.
Since the Federal Aviation Administration designated Nevada as one of six drone test sites in 2013, Las Vegas has become a hotbed for drone development. That, along with the availability of cheaper hobby models, might have some in Southern Nevada contemplating a drone-free vacation.
Last week, I got to feel absolutely hopeful about the future of America media. This rare experience made me reflect positively on how this nation's youth will help transform the Fourth Estate.
Bernie Sanders may not be winning with baby boomers, and he may not be winning with minorities. But the 74-year-old senator has locked up one vote: the producers and peddlers of Internet memes.
Nevada matters in the race for the White House and that is so apparent out here tonight.
Below is a rush transcript of MSNBC and Telemundo's Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Town Hall moderated by José Díaz-Balart and Chuck Todd live from Las Vegas on Thursday, Feb. 18 from 9-11 p.m. ET / 6-8 p.m. PT.
Friendship keeps us alive, so it's no wonder we worry whether social media has doomed it.
It's the one time each year when TV viewers don't fast forward through commercials but actually watch — and even look forward to watching — them.
Longtime Las Vegas journalist, editor and educator Mary Hausch has announced her June 3 retirement from her associate affiliate professor's post at UNLV's Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies.
As hype mounted and the money poured in for Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s so-called "Fight of the Century" in Las Vegas, a national conversation began about the undefeated boxer's behavior outside the ring.
They're, collectively, an all-seeing eye, catching people in places they shouldn't be and doing things they probably shouldn't be doing and then showing it to the entire world. Forget Big Brother. Smartphone cameras make all of us big brothers, turning us into equal parts private detective, nanny, snitch and busybody.