Courier Adviser Receives Nevada Hall of Fame Award

Rich Moreno, director of student publications and a journalism instructor at WIU, has been selected as a 2007 recipient of the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award.

The award recognizes emerging or mid-career writers who have shown substantial achievement in their work and a demonstrated connection with Nevada in either their subject matter or by living in the state.

Rich MorenoMoreno was publisher of Nevada Magazine for 14 years and is the author of seven Nevada-related books, including “The Roadside History of Nevada,” “Endless Nevada,” and “The Nevada Trivia Book.”

He, along with three other writers, was honored in November in Reno. The selection committee cited his “significant work in regards to the state of Nevada,” his “obvious interest in writing about Nevada issues/places over the past 25 years” and the “evidence of a commitment to and love for the state of Nevada.”

For two decades, Moreno wrote an award-winning weekly history/travel column about Nevada. He is a former journalism instructor at the University of Nevada-Reno Reynolds School of Journalism and former director of advertising and public relations for the Nevada Commission on Tourism, where he created the successful “Highway 50: The Loneliest Road in America” promotion. Moreno joined the WIU faculty in 2006.

Moreno is currently completing his eighth book, “Nevada Curiosities,” and maintains a travel blog, “The Backyard Traveler,” which spotlights his many travel stories about Nevada, at www.backyardtraveler.blogspot.com.

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