Las Vegas Review-Journal will no longer print a competing newspaper

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: The Associated Press, via WTOP

Las Vegas Review-Journal will no longer print a competing newspaper

The Associated Press
April 3, 2026, 10:29 AM

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas Review-Journal announced Friday that it will no longer print its rival the Las Vegas Sun for the first time in decades, amid an ongoing legal dispute over the nation’s last joint operating agreement stemming from a 1970 law designed to preserve newspapers.

Readers “will not find a printed Las Vegas Sun insert inside,” the Review-Journal said in an editorial, noting the Sun maintains a website, has a few hundred thousand followers across social media platforms, and is free to produce its own newspaper.

“We encourage them to do so. The Review-Journal competes with countless sources of news and entertainment, but we would welcome one more. We just don’t want to foot the bill. It is time the Sun stood up on its own two feet,” the editorial said, without specifying the cost.

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[Angrybob2001]

1. RJ owned by the Adelson family

Right wingers own most of the media now it seems like. This will be a problem in the future.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Oldtimers here will remember the Las Vegas Review-Journal for cozying up with copyright troll Righthaven.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righthaven

Lawsuits

Righthaven initially entered agreements concerning old news articles from Stephens Media, publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, based on a business model of suing bloggers, other Internet authors, and Internet site operators for statutory damages for having reproduced the articles on their sites without permission. An affiliate of Stephens Media owned half of Righthaven. By March 24, 2011, 255 cases had been filed. Typically, Righthaven has demanded $75,000 and surrender of the domain name from each alleged infringer, but accepted out of court settlements of several thousand dollars per defendant. As of December 2010 approximately 70 cases had settled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righthaven_LLC_v._Democratic_Underground_LLC

Righthaven LLC. v. Democratic Underground LLC, 791 F. Supp. 2d 968 (D. Nev. 2011), was a copyright infringement case which determined that a contract giving a party right to sue on behalf of a copyright holder does not give the party legal standing to file such lawsuits. This case is one of over 200 similar cases filed by Righthaven against media outlets using content from Stephens Media. Judge Roger L. Hunt ruled that Righthaven lacked standing to file a copyright infringement suit and ordered Righthaven to show cause within two weeks why it should not be sanctioned for failure to disclose Stephens Media as an interested party.

[snot]

3. I am sorry to see any news outlet shuttered.

Nothing has played a bigger role in the political and cultural decline of the US than the consolidation of media ownership into vastly fewer hands.