The Las Vegas Sun is a Pulitzer-prize winning newspaper and one of two daily newspapers in Las Vegas. The paper has been owned and operated by the Greenspun family since its founding in 1950.
Since 2005 the Sun has been published under a Joint Operating Agreement with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, with the Sun running as an insert in the Review-Journal. Because of this arrangement the Sun has invested heavily in its website and in multimedia, backed by Greenspun Interactive, the online media division of the Greenspun Media Group.
In 2008 Greenspun hired Rob Curley, who had headed new media efforts at the Naples Daily News and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, to be editor for Greenspun Interactive and lasvegassun.com. After Curley’s arrival the Sun put an emphasis on video, and in 2009 the company launched 702.tv, a twice weekly show for TV and the web that focused on news and culture. Four months after launch Greenspun cancelled the show, citing the bad economy.
In December 2010 the Greenspun Media Group announced it would be merging the advertising and other support staff across several properties as well as laying off employees.
The Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity is a nonprofit organization that focuses on investigative reporting at state and local levels. The center, based in Bismarck, N.D., was founded in 2009 by the Sam Adams Alliance, a conservative thinktank, and several of its employees have come from positions in conservative publications and political offices,…
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