Michael Easter has always been interested in health, so the career path that has led the Utah native to UNLV, where he has been an adjunct professor of health journalism since August, makes perfect sense.

With the inauguration of President Donald Trump and Women's Marches across the country the day after, many social media feeds have been inundated with political posts.

Over the past few months, Facebook has pushed an ad campaign that works to demystify its latest big feature: the ability to stream video, live.

Mobile video is changing the way we witness crime, from live footage of a mentally disabled man tortured by four assailants , to a recording that led to the manslaughter conviction of an Israeli soldier , to the body cameras designed to keep police accountable.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas will continue to operate its jazz station after a proposal to outsource management to Nevada Public Radio prompted a backlash from students.

As UNLV’s game against Duke quickly got away Saturday, D’mon Cotton knew he had a lot of time to fill on the radio broadcast, knowing most listeners no longer would care much about the play-by-play.

The dedicated hordes of UNLV students who packed regents meetings to defend the campus radio station can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

UNLV hopes to find a permanent leader for its ailing journalism school by the end of the academic year, school administrators said Thursday.

Who knew that imaginary creatures could create such a real-life ruckus?

It’s been a week since “Pokemon Go,” a free smartphone-based game app, was released. And ever since, legions of fun-loving Southern Nevadans have braved the oppressive heat to join other Americans with way too much time on their hands to chase Pokemon in parks, on city streets, in offices and wherever else the wily critters might turn up.

When a police officer shot her boyfriend Philando Castile during a traffic stop, Diamond Reynolds reached for a powerful new medium to bring the world into the car with them — Facebook Live, the in-app streaming feature that broadcast the bloody and emotional aftermath of the fatal shooting that left her boyfriend slumped in the driver's seat beside her.

UNLV’s ailing journalism school will soon welcome a new leader and update its class offerings as officials tackle a scathing external review that called for sweeping program changes last year.

In an interview last month about Facebook’s recent push into live streaming video, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeats the word “raw” like it’s some kind of sacred totem. Facebook Live is “raw and visceral,” he says. It’s this “new, raw” way to communicate.