In The News: Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies

Las Vegas Review Journal

Las Vegas author Michael Easter has gone deep into the origins of a question many of us find ourselves asking in today’s technologically-driven, fast-paced society: why can’t we stop looking at our phones?

City Cast Las Vegas

Author and UNLV journalism professor Michael Easter is an expert on self-improvement. His first book, 2021’s “The Comfort Crisis,” showed how to unlock the power of discomfort to upgrade your life. His new book, published today, is “Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset & Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough.”

Las Vegas Review Journal

The origins of Las Vegas high culture run deep — and you can’t tell the story without a chapter on Charles Vanda Here’s the backstory

CoastalView.com

In the late 19th century, an Eastern physician might prescribe camphor, opium, carbolic acid or a one-way ticket to Southern California. Climatotherapy, as it was called, held that an especially healthful climate (“salubrious” was the favored term) could cure asthma, tuberculosis, rheumatism and many other ailments.

Las Vegas Review Journal

The Nevada attorney general’s office took months to produce public records that the state’s other constitutional offices promptly released, raising questions about why the state’s top law enforcement office continues to delay the release of important documents that help taxpayers understand its function.

Men's Health

Sin City offers so much more than vice. Here are five ways to see Las Vegas' many virtues. In other words, if you're a fan of fitness and fun, here's how to go alllll in.

Casino.org

This week’s uproar over Tucker Carlson’s and Don Lemon’s surprise departures from high-profile cable news jobs shows the limitations of First Amendment protections, according to legal experts.

Gizmodo

This week, the Supreme Court is hearing two cases that could upend the way we’ve come to understand freedom of speech on the internet. Both Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh ask the court to reconsider how the law interprets Section 230, a regulation that protects companies from legal liability for user-generated content.

KSNV-TV: News 3

The sports scene is exploding here in Las Vegas and so is the need to cover it. Some of the staff and students at UNLV say they are ready for the challenge! News 3's photojournalist James Johnson captures their dreams becoming a reality.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

It's National News Literacy Week. A chance to reflect on the vital role of gathering and sharing news and information. It's a lesson the next generation of journalists are learning everyday in classrooms across the country.

Listin Diario

If you had to choose a movie image to remember this 2022, it would be the slap that Will Smith gave Chris Rock on Oscar night, an incident that continues to give rise to talk and that has come to eclipse other key moments in the history of these awards.

KSNV-TV: News 3

More than 2,000 UNLV Rebels will cross the Thomas and Mack stage on Monday and Tuesday, with five outstanding graduates representing the winter class of 2022.