City: Reno, NV

Category: Media

Telephone: (775) 324-4440

Address: 708 North Center Street

Description: The only alternative weekly in the Reno/Tahoe area, the Reno News & Review likes to take on the establishment and especially likes to badger the Reno Gazette-Journal. The staff maintains that its alternative voice is not beholden to the powers that be, and it covers everything, including stories that the mainstream media won’t touch. This every-Wednesday publication began in 1993 as the Nevada Weekly and was founded by former Reno Gazette-Journal reporters as an alternative source of news to the Gannett-owned Reno daily. They soon found they were not financially equipped to go up against the Gannett Company. The founders sold the weekly to Chico Community Publishing, Inc., in 1995, and it became the Reno News & Review, joining the publishing company’s two other alternative weeklies in Chico and Sacramento, California. The weekly tabloid is progressive, spirited, and targeted at the young-adult crowd. Stories often rake local politicians over the coals, take potshots at the establishment, and wreak havoc on corporate America. It also devotes a lot of space to the local entertainment scene. The newspaper prints about 35,000 copies each week and has an estimated readership of 95,000. It can be found all over the Reno/Tahoe area in bright-red street racks at convenience and grocery stores, malls, gas stations, restaurants, and just about anywhere else the Generation X crowd hangs out.