It’s official: Radetich to keep job despite journalism violation

  Nina stays. But will the controversy go away?
  On Saturday, a Sun article exposed Nina Radetich after she was caught on tape last March suggesting that the owner of Tire Works — a local auto repair chain under Channel 13 investigation for charging customers for unnecessary services — could contact her boyfriend for media consulting to blunt the impact of the negative press by her own station.
  Radetich even introduced some of the investigative segments.
  One source familiar with the situation said Monday that “anger and disgust” were building among “Action News” staffers. Station VP/GM Jim Prather told the Sun that Radetich’s egregious journalism violation was a “lapse in judgment,” but tells the R-J today that the incident shouldn’t blacken Radetich’s investigative record over the years.
  “We’re standing by her 100 percent,” Prather says. “She regrets having made that mistake and I think we have all learned from this incident. Nina has worked very hard for more than a decade to do stories and provide news coverage of Las Vegas and I don’t think we should lose sight of the work she’s done. We are working hard to do investigative journalism for the city and the community and that’s not going to stop.”