The Las Vegas Sun has won the Roy W. Howard public service award for stories and editorials revealing that poor safety practices and lax government oversight were significant factors in a string of construction deaths on the Las Vegas Strip.
Sun reporter's body of work on construction deaths in Las Vegas was one of the finest examples of “local accountability reporting” last year, according to the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
The biggest job in Carson City this week is decoding the federal economic stimulus bill passed by Congress and figuring out how much money Nevada will get — and what strings are attached.
The following are the results of the Nevada Press Association 2008 "Better Newspaper Contest" announced Saturday night in Mesquite at the newspaper organization's annual convention.
The Las Vegas Sun has won 14 first-place journalism awards in the Nevada Press Association’s 2007 Better Newspaper Contest, including freedom of the press and outstanding journalist, which was earned by reporter Marshall Allen.
Three Las Vegas Sun journalists have won awards in the 2008 Best of the West contest, recognized as the most prestigious journalism contest spanning the 13 Western states.
The Las Vegas Sun has won five awards, including the Fairbanks Public Service Award and first places for reporter Marshall Allen for investigative reporting and feature writing, in the 2007 Associated Press California-Nevada Newswriting and Photo contest.
Nine Sun journalists have won accolades from their peers across the country for excellence in health coverage, business reporting, illustrations, design, photography or online videography.
Sun photographer Tiffany Brown has won first place in the feature photography category in the Best of the West journalism contest, an annual competition that this year generated submissions from more than 120 newspapers in 13 Western states.
A reporter and two photographers from the Las Vegas Sun have won awards in the Associated Press' annual contest for news writing and photography at newspapers in Nevada and California.
Sun photographer Sam Morris' picture of a mixed martial arts fighter comforting his two distressed young daughters at the end of a bloody bout is becoming something of an iconic sports photograph.
