Editor & Publisher honors R-J’s Julie Herron with Operations All-Star award

Editor & Publisher, a commercialized mag covering the paper industry, has named the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Julie Herron arsenic 1 of 3 2021 Operations All-Stars.

The grant recognizes those moving successful the pressroom, helping to negociate each facet of a publication’s printing, including its equipment.

Herron, prepress manager for the Review-Journal, said it’s the archetypal clip she’s received an grant of this magnitude, adding that it was bully to beryllium acknowledged for her work.

“My hubby works connected the property and he’s ever telling me, ‘You enactment excessively much,’” she said. “But I get restitution erstwhile it runs smoothly, and erstwhile it doesn’t, it’s a situation and I similar to lick problems.”

Review-Journal Vice President of Operations Janet Owen nominated Herron for the award, stating that she “is successful complaint of galore processes that were erstwhile managed by aggregate people.”

“She coordinates and assigns deadlines for some commercialized (jobs) and our ain products. She is the ‘go to’ idiosyncratic for the newsroom and advertizing to assistance with processing peculiar conception deadlines and press/page layouts. Rarely does thing autumn done the cracks,” Owen said successful her nomination.

Herron joined the Review-Journal successful 1987, aft moving arsenic a typesetter for 5 years astatine section papers successful Arizona. She present oversees the work of the Review-Journal, its affiliate publications and much recently, commercialized printing for different newspapers and businesses.

“I supervise the radical that are liable for making definite that we bash a bully layout for each of our papers — that would beryllium Pahrump, Tonopah, Boulder City, Review-Journal,” she said.

“We bash the layout, placing the ads, sending the dummies to editorial and it comes backmost to america erstwhile each the transcript and ads are complete. We nonstop the completed pages to sheet and get those plates retired to the property … and marque definite (the paper) gets retired the doorway to the lawsuit connected time.”

Glenn Cook, the Review-Journal’s enforcement exertion and elder vice president for news, said Herron is 1 of the astir indispensable radical successful the company.

“It’s large to spot Editor & Publisher grant Julie arsenic the champion of the best,” Cook said. “She has been an MVP astatine the RJ for much than 30 years. She’s arsenic professional, productive and pleasant arsenic anyone successful the building. We each deliberation the satellite of her.”

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