Newspaper announces new editor

Arnold M. Knightly has been named editor of the Pahrump Valley Times, the area’s largest newspaper and the paper of record for Nye County.

Knightly will be the seventh editor since the paper was founded in 1970.

“I jumped at the chance to be editor of this newspaper,” Knightly said. “I plan to carry on the great journalism readers have come to expect over the years. I understand I have a big challenge ahead but I will be working with an experienced staff.”

Publisher Marie Wujek said Knightly’s experience will be an asset to the Times.

“I look forward to working with Arnold, he has a style of his own and his wealth of experience within Stephens Media makes him an excellent choice for the Pahrump Valley Times,” Wujek said.

Knightly, 46, had been the editor of the Boulder City Review from August 2010, nine months after the paper was founded, until October 2013. He helped guide the paper as it developed its voice in the community, which also includes Lake Mead National Recreation Area and Hoover Dam.

The newspaper earned the Nevada Press Association’s General Excellence award in 2012 and again this year, of which he was editor six months of the voting period.

Knightly was then editor of the now closed alternative weekly, Las Vegas CityLife, from October 2013 until its last issue in February.

He has been in the Las Vegas Review-Journal newsroom the past seven months covering the the new state business of medical marijuana and the City of Henderson government. Knightly first joined the Review-Journal in 2001 as a prep sports freelance reporter, moving over to the Las Vegas Business Press full time in 2006.

He then joined the Review-Journal in February 2007, reporting on the financial collapse of the casino industry. He earned a press association award in 2009 for Best Business News Story for his reporting on construction workers drinking before entering the CityCenter job site.

Knightly has earned three other top writing awards from the association. He is a father of three and lives in Henderson with his wife. He plans to make the daily commute over the hump.

“I look forward to the challenge ahead during this time of transition for Pahrump,” Knightly said. “From changes on the horizon for the sheriff’s office to the disbanding of the town board, the newspaper will be the first chronicler of the county’s changing history. It is not a responsibility I will take lightly.”