It was founded on October 19, 1893, as The Student Record, against the wishes of the Nevada Board of Regents.
[1] The newspaper currently releases a digital issue at the end of every month and employs about 10 Nevada students.
All six of the university's Pulitzer Prize winners had bylines in The Nevada Sagebrush and five served as staff writers.
[3][4] It was also a finalist for a Pacemaker at the 2006, 2007 and 2015 ACP student journalism awards.
It has won the best of show award at the fall 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 ACP national conferences in its category (weekly broadsheet at a four-year university).