Lincoln County Record

{{short description|Weekly newspaper in Nevada}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{italic title}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Lincoln County Record | logo = File:Lincoln_County_Record_logo.png | logo_upright = | logo_border = yes | logo_alt = "RECORD" in red block letters with smaller type above reading "Lincoln County" and "Since 1870" | logo_size = | logo_caption = The nameplate | image = File:Lincoln_County_Record_front_page_2025-03-14.jpg | image_upright = | image_border = yes | image_alt = The red nameplate with two stories underneath: "Train Depot: Grounds cleanup day, upcoming events scheduled for revitalized Caliente Depot" by Jessica Hernandez and "Town Board: Pioche Town Board: March Meeting Recap" by Jason Beam. The station story has a picture of a Mission Revival story building. | image_size = | caption = Caliente Depot on the front page of March 14, 2025 | native_name = | motto = Lincoln County Nevada's News Source | type = Weekly newspaper | format = | owner = Ben Rowley | founder = H.R. Pitchford | publisher = Nevada Central Media | president = | general_manager = | chief_editor = | editor = | deputy_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = Carly Sauvageau | news_editor = | campus_editor = | campus_chief = | metro_editor = | metro_chief = | opinion_editor = | photo_editor = | staff_writers = Collin Anderson, Jason Beam, Jessica Hernandez, Summer Mastin | custom_label = Former names<ref name="NDNP">{{cite web |url=https://nvdnp.wordpress.com/nevada-history/pioche/ |title=Pioche, Nevada |last1=Vaughan |first1=Jason |last2=Lampert |first2=Cory |last3=Michel |first3=Peter |date=2020 |work=Nevada Digital Newspaper Project |series=National Digital Newspaper Program |publisher=UNLV University Libraries |agency=Library of Congress & National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=April 5, 2025 |via=WordPress}}</ref> | custom_data = * Ely Record (1870–1872) * Pioche Daily Record (1872–1876) * Pioche Tri-Weekly Record (1876–1876) * Pioche Weekly Record (1877–1900) * Lincoln County Record (1900–1905) * Pioche Weekly Record (1906–1908) * Pioche Record (1908–1925) | founded = {{start date and age|1870}}<ref name="Appleton">{{cite web |url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/coronavirus-crisis-strikes-blow-to-nevada-rural-newspapers-1988172/ |title=Coronavirus crisis strikes blow to Nevada rural newspapers |last=Appleton |first=Rory |date=March 21, 2020 |newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal |publisher=News + Media Capital Group |agency= |publication-place= |access-date=April 5, 2025}}</ref> | political_position = | language = English | ceased_publication =  | relaunched = | headquarters = Post Office Box 635<br>Alamo, Nevada 89001 | publishing_city = | publishing_country = | circulation = 1,800 | circulation_date = | circulation_ref = <ref name="Mondo">{{cite web |url=https://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/28/8165/23353 |title=Lincoln County Record |last= |first= |date=2024 |work=Mondo Times |publisher= |location=Boulder, Colorado |access-date=April 5, 2025}}</ref> | readership = | sister_newspapers = | ISSN = 8755-3260 | eISSN = | oclc = | RNI = | website = {{URL|lccentral.com}} | free = }} The '''''Lincoln County Record''''' is a weekly newspaper<ref name="MuckRack">{{cite web |url=https://muckrack.com/media-outlet/lccentral |title=Lincoln County Record |last= |first= |date=February 7, 2025 |work=Muck Rack |publisher= |location=Miami |access-date=April 5, 2025}}</ref> covering Lincoln County, Nevada.<ref name="Schmitt">{{cite web |url=https://www.ohio.edu/news/2022/09/ohio-viscom-student-explores-community-journalism-while-interning-lincoln-county |title=OHIO viscom student explores community journalism while interning for Lincoln County Record |last=Schmitt |first=Jordan |date=September 28, 2022 |work=OHIO Today |publisher=Ohio University |publication-place=Athens, Ohio |access-date=April 5, 2025}}</ref> Originally founded as the '''''Ely Record''''',<ref name=NDNP/> it is the second oldest weekly newspaper in Nevada.<ref name="Historic">{{cite web |url=https://piochenevada.com/history/ |title=Historic Pioche, Nevada |last= |first= |date=January 31, 2025 |work=Pioche: Nevada's Original Old West Town |publisher=Pioche Chamber of Commerce |location= |access-date=April 5, 2025}}</ref> The paper focuses on local stories to provide community journalism for the rural area.<ref name=Schmitt/>

== History == In September 1870, H.R. Pitchford founded the ''Ely Record'' newspaper in Ely and printed it out of a tent.<ref name=NDNP/> Since then, the paper has used a number of locations as its headquarters, including Pioche, Caliente, and Panaca<ref name=Historic/> but has been based in Alamo as of 2025.<ref name="Sauvageau1">{{Cite web |last=Sauvageau |first=Carly |date=January 19, 2024 |title=Ely Times and Eureka Sentinel will be sold, turned to digital-only publications |url=https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/ely-times-and-eureka-sentinel-will-be-sold-turned-to-digital-only-publications |access-date=April 5, 2025 |newspaper=Nevada Independent |publisher=Nevada News Bureau |publication-place=Las Vegas| language=en}}</ref>

Patrick Holland was one of the paper's first proprietors with founder Pitchford.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 30, 1870 |title=The Ely Record. |work=Gold Hill Daily News |location=Gold Hill, Nevada |pages=2}}</ref> A few months later the paper was issued by Holland and Mr. Simpson.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 4, 1870 |title=Ely District. |work=Gold Hill Daily News |pages=2}}</ref> In August 1872, editor P. Frank Kenyon disposed of his interests, leaving Pat Holland as sole owner of the ''Record.''<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 21, 1872 |title=Notice |work=The Daily Appeal |location=Carson City, Nevada |pages=2}}</ref> Kenyon left to form a rival paper with W.B. Taylor called the ''Daily Pioche Review''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 22, 1872 |title=Notice |work=Gold Hill Daily News |pages=2}}</ref> That September, Holland expanded the paper into a daily and renamed it to the ''Pioche Daily Record''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 23, 1872 |title=Pioche Daily Record. |work=The Daily Appeal |location=Carson City, Nevada |pages=3}}</ref>

In 1906, H.E. Freudenthal purchased the ''Record.''<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 13, 1906 |title=Pioche Record |work=Las Vegas Age |pages=1}}</ref> Later that year he leased it to Eugene Goodrich and William Orr.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 1, 1907 |title=The Record Leased. |work=The Pioche Record |pages=1}}</ref> In 1908, Lewis H. Beason, mining editor of the ''Deseret News'', purchased the ''Record'' from Orr and Goodrich.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 30, 1908 |title=Pioche Record Changes Hands |work=Tonopah Daily Bonanza |pages=4}}</ref> Following Beason, the paper was acquired by Oliver R. Nation in 1918,<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 16, 1918 |title=Pioche Record Sold |work=The Goldfield News and Weekly Tribune |location=Goldfield, Nevada |pages=6}}</ref> A.A. Sherman in 1919,<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 28, 1919 |title=The Pioche Record Has New Owner |work=The Pioche Record |pages=1}}</ref> and Edgar L. Nores and F.E. Brown in 1920.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 10, 192 |title=Record Now Under New Management |work=The Pioche Record |pages=1}}</ref>

In June 1925, the ''Pioche Record'' and ''Caliente Weekly News'' were merged to form the ''Lincoln County Record''. S.D. Perry was editor and manager.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 29, 1925 |title=Nevada Newspapers Are Consolidated |work=Nevada State Journal |location=Reno, Nevada |pages=6}}</ref> In 1949, a fire destroyed the paper's office.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 4, 1949 |title=Fire Destroys Plant of Pioche Record But Publisher Hopes to Meet Deadline |work=Nevada State Journal |location=Reno, Nevada |pages=3}}</ref> The paper continued publication without missing a deadline by using the presses of other nearby papers.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 28, 1949 |title=State Newspapers Aid Pioche Record |work=Nevada State Journal |location=Reno, Nevada |pages=10}}</ref> Nores published the paper until his death in 1960.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 22, 1960 |title=Edgar L. Nores, Prominent State Leader, Stricken |work=Reno Gazette-Journal |pages=1}}</ref>

Thomas L. Clay bought the paper about 1970 and ran it until his death in 1979. Connie Simkins was the editor from 1979 until retiring in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://piochenevada.com/history/ |access-date=2026-01-06 |website=Pioche Chamber of Commerce |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2010, Stephens Media, owner of the ''Las Vegas Review-Journal'', purchased the paper.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 12, 2010 |title=Briefly {{!}} Stephens Media Buys Rural Paper |work=Reno Gazette-Journal |pages=6}}</ref><ref name="Historic" /> In 2011, local reporter Rachel Williford won first place as a Journalist of Merit from the Nevada Press Association.<ref name="AP">{{cite web |last= |first= |date=October 16, 2011 |title=Nevada Press Association 2011 award winners |url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada-press-association-2011-award-winners/ |access-date=April 5, 2025 |publisher=Stephens Media |publication-place= |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal}}</ref>

In 2012, the company sold the ''Record'' to Battle Born Media.<ref name="Stephens">{{Cite web |date=April 3, 2012 |title=Stephens Media sells Lincoln County Record |url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/stephens-media-sells-lincoln-county-record/ |access-date=April 5, 2025 |newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal |publisher=Stephens Media |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2015, the UNLV University Libraries digitized and moved past issues of the paper online as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kintop |first=Jeff |date=November 20, 2015 |title=Two More Nevada Newspaper Archives Searchable Online |url=https://nevadapress.com/wabuskamangler/two-more-nevada-newspaper-archives-searchable-online/ |access-date=April 5, 2025 |work=Nevada Press Association |publisher= |publication-place=Carson City, Nevada}}</ref> Battle Born planned to close the paper in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic until long-term managing editor Ben Rowley purchased it.<ref name="Appleton" /><ref name="Sauvageau1" /> As of 2024, publishing legal notices provided about 35% of the paper's income.<ref name="Sauvageau2">{{cite web |url=https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/for-rural-papers-as-old-as-nevada-itself-a-fight-for-survival-in-digital-age |title=For rural papers as old as Nevada itself, a fight for survival in digital age |last=Sauvageau |first=Carly |date=March 31, 2024 |newspaper=Nevada Independent |publisher=Nevada News Bureau |publication-place=Las Vegas |access-date=April 5, 2025}}</ref>

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