Award-winning Nevada gaming reporter Howard Stutz plans retirement

It’s with many blended feelings that we write in the present day’s message: Our legendary gaming reporter, Howard Stutz, will quickly be retiring. 

Well earlier than he joined our employees in 2021, Howard was an outspoken champion of The Indy’s work and an eminently revered voice on the gaming business. We lengthy needed to beef up our protection of Nevada’s most necessary enterprise sector, so we have been thrilled when he began freelancing for us and later grew to become a full-fledged group member.

More than 40 years after launching his profession, although, Howard is able to cling up his journalism hat and benefit from the enjoyable and freedom of retirement. 

We’ll miss not solely his diligence in overlaying the gaming beat (plus a variety of add-ons, from new sports activities groups to hashish and judicial elections), however how he’s the quintessential group participant, leaping in to assist every time wanted.

“We are sad to lose Howard, who has been everything we could have hoped for as a reporter, mentor and sometime-editor,” mentioned CEO Jon Ralston. “But as a friend who has known Howard for four decades, I am thrilled that he will be able to enjoy retirement with his family. Godspeed!” 

It’ll be not possible to interchange Howard, and we stay up for celebrating all his contributions to Nevada journalism when he’s inducted into the Nevada Press Foundation’s Hall of Fame subsequent month. But we’ll be looking out quickly for somebody that might convey their very own strengths to the work of overlaying Nevada’s preeminent business. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, be part of us in wishing Howard a satisfying ultimate few months as a reporter — he is not planning to place his pocket book down till the top of the 12 months — and a fair happier retirement to come back: [email protected].