Vegas newspaper editor stepping down after sale to Adelson

The new owners also said that Mr. Hengel as well as several other “qualified employees” have accepted a buyout offer from the newspaper’s former owners.

Review-Journal Publisher Jason Taylor also didn’t immediately respond Tuesday to messages.

Schroeder was introduced to the Review-Journal newsroom on December 10, and he was the one who initially refused to identify the newspaper’s new owners.

Reporters at the Review-Journal posted reactions on Twitter after Hengel addressed the newsroom.

And over the weekend, three Review-Journal reporters wrote that paper employees had been instructed, just weeks before the sale, to “drop everything and spend two weeks monitoring all activity of three Clark County judges”.

It said Gatehouse Media LLC, a subsidiary of the former owner New Media Investment Group, would continue to run the publication.

Schroeder did not return phone calls and emails from the AP.

Gonzalez was selected by someone at the Review-Journal, but not within the newsroom, because she specializes in business lawsuits and is handling unrelated cases involving Adelson and fellow casino mogul Steve Wynn, the report said.

“I didn’t see the point of it. I still don’t see the point of it”, Hengel told the AP on Tuesday, adding that he had not talked with anybody from the Adelson family or Schroeder.

For those who consider such sentiments the very embodiment of “the lady doth protest too much” logic that dominates conservative media, the editorial insisted that – unlike the people who now own the paper – the new owners “decided to buy the Review-Journal to help create a better newspaper – a forward thinking newspaper that is worthy of our Las Vegas community”.

Adelson’s spokesman for the Las Vegas Sands, Ron Reese, declined comment. When the buyer’s name wasn’t revealed, the paper’s reporters did some digging and revealed that the Adelson family was behind the deal. The family has not spoken publicly since they ended a week of speculation and demands by staff, media watchdogs and politicians to know the identity of the new boss.

LAS VEGAS (AP) – The editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal is leaving after a week of turmoil sparked by the sale of Nevada’s largest newspaper to the family of casino magnate and Republican party kingmaker Sheldon Adelson.

Hengel said he’s proud of his staff for the professional way they’ve handled themselves during a tumultuous month.