I was both touched and saddened by the kind words from many, many readers when we announced we’d be ending our regular monthly print editions with our December 2025 issue. A whole lot of you made it clear that you’d deeply miss the physical, analog version of the Reno News & Review.
The decision to end the regular print edition was not based on demand; we were still printing 25,000 copies a month, with all but a small percentage of those copies snatched up at nearly 700 locations around the region. Unfortunately, we had no choice but to end it because of the economics. Advertising was down, and print costs were up, based largely on the fact that there are no large web presses left in Northern Nevada—and as a result, we were losing thousands of dollars each month.
That said, we never completely closed the door on print. We have always planned to continue producing our Best of Northern Nevada edition in September—with a large print run, on newsprint, just like before. We also said we were open to continuing regular printing should we receive a really large check to fund our efforts.
Alas, that really large check never came—so for the last three months, we’ve been exploring ways in which we could continue producing a physical edition of the RN&R without losing money. I’ve talked to other publishers to get ideas, looked at various options, and done a lot of number-crunching.
I am happy to announce we have come up with a plan—and, in fact, we just sent our next print edition to press.
The RN&R’s print edition will now be published quarterly. One of those four yearly issues will be the aforementioned large-scale Best of Northern Nevada issue, in mid-September.
Each of the other three issues—in March, June and December—will be full-color magazine-style editions, featuring a variety of stories (that are still relevant, of course) published at RenoNR.com over the previous three months. The press run for these three issues will be small (think three digits), with each issue available for purchase—including delivery via mail—for $9.99 (click here to purchase), or $35.99 for the year (all four issues, including Best of Northern Nevada; click here to purchase). Single copies will be available for purchase at Recycled Records, and possibly other places down the line.
While we are charging for the physical issues, we have not forgotten our mission of making all of our news available for free to anyone who wants it. The PDF of each issue will be emailed for free to all of our newsletter subscribers, and it will be available at RenoNR.com for free download. To accommodate readers who want to enjoy the physical magazine without paying for it, we hope to give a handful of copies to each Washoe County library branch, for people to enjoy in-house.
I know this plan is far from perfect—but it’s the best we could come up with in order to get a print edition in front of as many people as possible, without losing money and/or diverting many resources away from our coverage. (If you have better ideas, of course, we’re all ears.)
Meanwhile, I encourage all readers to subscribe to all of our newsletters, and to read our coverage at RenoNR.com. Kris Vagner and our team are doing a splendid job of covering local news, arts, food and music, just as we’ve done since the first edition of Nevada Weekly hit newsstands more than 32 years ago.
Thanks, as always for reading. Watch for the PDF of our Spring 2026 print edition in your inboxes on March 13, with the physical copies mailed and available around March 14.