Reno editor new president of Nevada press group

Saturday, Sept. 26, 1998 | 2:41 a.m.

Cunning succeeds Gwen Bogh Carter, publisher of the Lovelock Review-Miner. The election was held at the NPA's annual convention.

Tom Mitchell, editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, was elected first vice president. Rich Thurlow, publisher of the Pahrump Valley Times, was elected second vice president.

Elected to the NPA board of directors were:

Nick Baptista, publisher, North Lake Tahoe Bonanza; Linda Brown, publisher, Daily Sparks Tribune; Rex Steninger, editor and co-publisher, Elko Daily Free Press; Sandra Thompson, vice president/associate editor of the Las Vegas Sun; and Tony Hughes, co-publisher, Minteral County Independent-News, Hawthorne.

Association members voted to hold their 1999 convention in Yerington.

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