Why one Las Vegas newspaper just stopped printing its rival
By Jessica Hill
Published on April 3, 2026.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal has stopped printing its rival, the Las Vegas Sun, for the first time in decades due to a legal dispute over a 1970 law designed to preserve newspapers. The dispute stemmed from a joint operating agreement, which required the Sun to be printed as a daily insert in the Review- Journal, while both companies remained editorially independent. The lower court had found the agreement unenforceable due to an 2005 update being never signed by the U.S. attorney general. The Sun's owners have filed a lawsuit alleging that ending the agreement violates anti-trust laws. The Review Journal has been publishing since 1909 and is owned by the Adelson family, casino magnates and mega GOP donors.
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