ProgressNow Nevada Launches Media Accountability Project

Las Vegas Journal Review to monitor Nevada's largest newspaper

ProgressNow Nevada announces the launch of a major media accountability project focused mainly on the actions of the state's largest newspaper.

The project, Las Vegas Journal Review, will shine light on one of the most important community institutions by focusing on factual errors and bias in the Review-Journal and other local news outlets.

At a time when newspapers are buckling under tremendous pressures from the economic recession and digital age competition, it is imperative Nevada have a trusted source of local news. The Review-Journal newspaper has increasingly handled these pressures by veering hard to the right, offering readers slanted coverage and in some cases manufactured news.

Las Vegas Journal Review (http://www.lvjournalreview.com) will examine these factors with daily content of its own. The site has sections devoted to monitoring the writing and actions of RJ Publisher Sherm Frederick; a correction tally examining the paper's admitted errors; and the RJ's ties to conservative sources from the Nevada Policy Research Institute to right-wing radio and conservative political operative Chuck Muth.

The website features a daily blog, an Ask Us section, and daily fact checks.

<!--[if gte mso 10]> Las Vegas Journal Review is written and researched by longtime Nevada journalist Erin Neff, a former employee of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Contact: Erin Neff, executive director

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