Nevada's response to 1918 pandemic the topic of Monday's Democratic Tele-luncheon
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Fri, 09/04/2020 - 1:21pm
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September 7, 2020 - 12:00pm Featured speakers at Monday's Democratic tele-luncheon will be two Nevada journalists who have written extensively about how Nevada responded to the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1919: Bob Conrad in Reno and Bob Stoldal in Las Vegas.
Conrad, who will present from a Northern Nevada perspective, has more than 20 years of experience in journalism, public relations, marketing and publishing. He is co-founder of ThisisReno.com, a locally owned and operated online news website.
Stoldal, who will present from a Southern Nevada perspective, is a Las Vegas journalist and historian who is a member of the City of Las Vegas Historic Preservation Commission. He also sits on the boards of Preserve Nevada and the Nevada State Commission on Cultural Affairs, in addition to serving as board chair for both The Nevada Independent and the Nevada State Museum and Historical Society.
Bob Conrad completed his doctoral dissertation in 2011 at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he studied how the news media has covered institutions of higher ecucation in times of crisis, taking a look at the differences among blog content, traditional news media and niche news media. He has also authored a number of articles, publications and several books. His PR blog received an “Editor’s Pick” from journalism.co.uk, and his work has been featured in Information Week, Bulldog Reporter, eSkeptic, PRSA’s TACTICS and others. In 2015, he was selected to train at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism's Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism.
Bob Stoldal is an icon in Southern Nevada television news. He recently retired as News Director at KSNV News 3 in Las Vegas, but his legacy in Las Vegas media goes back decades. He wrote for the school newspaper at Las Vegas High School, and later edited the student newspaper at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His first paying job in media was sweeping the pressroom floors at the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He went on to work as a radio announcer at KLAS radio, and later became the station’s news director. At the same time he was part-time sports and weatherman at KSHO-TV, Channel 13. In 1967, he was hired as a reporter and anchor at KLAS-TV, Channel 8, and was promoted to news director in 1968. Beginning in 1992, he helped KLAS's parent company expand operations at their newly-acquired CBS affiliate in Nashville, and launched three 24-hour regional cable news channels in Virginia, Tennessee, and Las Vegas. In April 1998 he launched Las Vegas ONE, a 24-hour local news television operation owned by Cox Cable, KLAS and the Las Vegas Sun. He went on to become Vice President of News for KLAS, and in 2009 became Vice President of News for the Sunbelt Corporation, overseeing news operations in the company’s television stations in Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and Montana.
Sponsored by the Democratic Men's Committee, this event is scheduled for noon on Monday, September 7th, and will be held online via Zoom teleconference due to the temporary shutdown of in-person venues. Those wishing to be on distribution for a link to the teleconference can email Rich Dunn, Men's Committee Events Coordinator, at richdunn@aol.com.
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