Our next print edition, the December issue, will be the last regular RN&R in print.
Newspapers have a habit of trying to spin negative developments—layoffs, getting acquired by profit-hungry corporations, frequency decreases, etc.—as positives. While there is positive news about the RN&R that I’ll get to in a bit, I’m not going to spin the end of our monthly print edition: It stinks. We still print 25,000 of these each month, and almost all of them are picked up, throughout Reno, Sparks, Carson City, Gardnerville, Minden, Truckee and all around Tahoe.
To those of you who depend our print edition for a monthly dose of news: I’m sorry. But due to increased costs, a decrease in print advertising and various other factors (like the absence of a web printer in Northern Nevada since 2022), the monthly losses are increasing—and I don’t have deep pockets. In fact, to overextend the metaphor, my pockets are rather shallow, and we’ll lose at least $4,000 on the November issue. Given the situation our country is in right now, I don’t see the economic conditions getting better before they get much worse.
Having said all that, this isn’t entirely the end of print for the RN&R. Our current plan is to continue printing our Best of Northern Nevada issue each September, with the Best Of content and more. We may also do an occasional themed print edition here and there; time will tell. And, hey, if someone wants to write us a big check to stay in print regularly for another year or two, we’re game—and we can take tax-deductible donations via our fiscal sponsor!
Now, for the aforementioned positive news: While our regular print edition will end after next month’s edition, the RN&R will continue online, right here at RenoNR.com and via our newsletters.
While our print advertising has been decreasing, digital revenue is on the rise. It’s nowhere near where I’d like it to be, or where we really need it to be, but it’s way up from where it was when we were digital-only before resuming print in mid-2022. That revenue, combined with reader support—and I thank each and every one of you who has sent us money, as we have truly needed it, and will now need it as much as ever—will allow us to continue publishing.
After we put the December issue to bed, Kris and I will start making adjustments. We will make some tweaks, but most of our regular features will remain the same, and most of our fantastic writers will remain part of the RN&R. We’ll adjust some deadlines to make sure there’s a steady flow of amazing local news published here at RenoNR.com.
On the newsletter side, we’ll continue sending (and publishing at RenoNR.com) longtime RN&R calendar editor Kelley Lang’s events roundup, 11 Days a Week, each Wednesday. We’ll keep sending our newsy Editor’s Newsletter every Thursday. In the new year, we’ll add at least one more weekly newsletter, maybe more.
In other words: The Reno News & Review is not going anywhere. In the not-too-distant future, we hope to do even more local news, arts and music coverage, food writing and more, than we’re doing now—it’ll just all be published digitally. To continue doing so, we’ll need support from you, dear readers; learn more renonr.com/support-our-publication. The more advertising and reader support we receive, the more local coverage we can do.
I know there are a lot of readers out there who don’t read the RN&R, or any other news publication, online. To all of them: If there’s ANYTHING we can do to help you transition to reading us online, call us at 775-324-4440, or email me at jimmyb@renonr.com. Again, I am so sorry, but we did the best we could to stay in print for as long as we could—and we will still be in print at least once a year. I am proud that we were able to make one of the best post-COVID-19 newspaper comebacks in the country, to give Northern Nevada, as of the December edition, 43 more print editions.
Thanks to all of you read us in print, and a huge thanks to all of the longtime print advertisers who have stuck with us throughout multiple years. I hope you all will join us at RenoNR.com.
Enjoy the November 2025 Reno News & Review print edition, hitting newsstands today, over the weekend and early next week. Thank you for reading.