Editorial Team
Team
The identified Vegas Report editorial team, the coverage areas associated with each editor, and the publication’s stated editorial responsibility.
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Vegas Report's editorial team covers Las Vegas, Southern Nevada, hospitality, tourism, local business, entertainment, history and the visitor economy.
The profiles below summarize each editor's current role, coverage areas and background, along with who is responsible for the publication's editorial direction.
Sally Denton
Founder, Director and Editor
Focus: Las Vegas hospitality and business
Sally Denton is Vegas Report's founder, director and editor and also contributes reporting on the business and everyday realities behind Las Vegas hospitality, tourism and urban growth. Her reporting focuses on hotels and resorts, the visitor economy, development, local business, and the ways major changes across the Las Vegas Valley affect travelers and residents. She approaches these subjects by looking beyond marketing language to costs, operating decisions, public data, and the practical consequences readers are likely to encounter. Her editorial perspective favors clear sourcing, historical and economic context, and direct explanations of what has changed and why it matters. For Vegas Report readers, her work is intended to make a complicated destination easier to understand and more practical to navigate.
Education: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Joanne Goodwin
Editor
Focus: Hospitality and social history
Joanne Goodwin studied history at The University of New Mexico, where she developed an interest in social history, migration, work, and the communities of the American Southwest. Her professional background includes regional museum projects, cultural organizations, archival research, and independent historical work focused on how local industries shape everyday life. At Vegas Report, she writes about hospitality workers, restaurants and entertainment, women in local business, neighborhood change, tourism, and the human side of the Las Vegas visitor economy. Her editorial approach combines historical records, oral accounts, and practical context, looking beyond promotional narratives to understand who benefits from growth and who absorbs its costs. The emphasis of that work is on connecting the visitor economy to the people, workplaces and communities that make it function.
Education: The University of New Mexico
Mark Patton
Editor
Focus: Las Vegas history
Mark Patton studied history at the University of Nevada, Reno, where his interests developed around public history, archival research, and the preservation of regional stories. His professional background includes work with regional museums, cultural organizations, community heritage projects, and independent historical research focused on Nevada and the American West. At Vegas Report, he writes about historic casinos and resorts, Las Vegas neighborhoods, museums, transportation heritage, Downtown Las Vegas, and the people and institutions that helped shape Southern Nevada. His editorial approach starts with records, primary sources, provenance, and historical context rather than repeating familiar stories simply because they have become part of Vegas folklore. That distinction helps readers separate documented history from stories whose evidentiary basis may be less clear.
Education: University of Nevada, Reno
Editorial Responsibility
Sally Denton serves as founder, director, editor and principal responsible contact for Vegas Report. She is responsible for the publication's editorial direction, standards, sourcing practices, corrections process and publication decisions.
To see the people behind current coverage across Las Vegas and Southern Nevada, meet the writers and editors contributing to Vegas Report.
Editorial inquiries: editorial@vegas-report.com.
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