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Everybody, and Nobody, Is Talking About YouTube

Pedophile comments attached to YouTube videos featuring children pushed multimillion-dollar advertisers like AT&T, Disney, Hasbro and Nestle to halt commercials on the Google-owned video website. read more >
Mitch Bettis and Olivia Myers Farrell
Investments / Small Business

At Our Own Business, A Passing of the Torch

After blazing a four-decade trail for Arkansas women, helping build the Arkansas Times and then ABPG into two of the state’s biggest independent multimedia firms, Olivia Farrell is taking her dogs and going home. read more >
Some of the items Neurons Not Included sells through Amazon include, beginning clockwise from top left, a 4-piece sandstone "Value of Pi" coaster set, an embroidered pillow spelling out BaCoN, the "I Love You" coffee mug featuring a heart made out of binary numbers, and a set of plaques spelling out BaTh.
Banking & Finance / Manufacturing / Media & Marketing

With Some Prime Help, An Entrepreneur Rises

With marketing visibility through Amazon.com and help from the online retailer’s order fulfillment service, Cindy Green’s Neurons Not Included has doubled sales nearly every year since 2012 read more >
Business Services / Media & Marketing

Like the Game Itself, 2019 Ads Not So Super

Nice ads outnumbered good plays in Super Bowl LIII, a record low-scoring affair that left the New England Patriots champions again, 13-3 victors over the Los Angeles Rams. read more >
Mitch Bettis, publisher of Arkansas Business
Media & Marketing

Money in Journalism? Know Where to Look

A recent tweet posed a tough question to news veterans. If a promising young person asked, would you still recommend a journalism career? read more >
Arkansas Times Publisher Alan Leveritt (file)

Changing ‘Times’ and Prolonging ‘Life’

Alan Leveritt, the founder and publisher of the Arkansas Times, is so pleased with his publication’s rebirth as a monthly that he fears he’s tempting providence. read more >
Investments

Bad News, Good News And Business Models

Wehco Media is converting two south Arkansas dailies into weeklies, and a hedge fund-owned group is out to buy the big news chain Gannett. read more >
Gary Heathcott, a consultant to CJRW since early 2015, has been taken off two state accounts, according to the ad firm and the state.

Update: Heathcott v. CJRW: Will Extra Time Bring Deal?

Facing a $1.3 million breach-of-contract suit from longtime Little Rock adman Gary Heathcott, marketing agency CJRW is taking a few weeks to answer the legal complaint and may be considering settlement talks, several observers suggest. read more >
Ned Perme headed into retirement with paintbrush in hand. He’ll be selling his works of Arkansas landmarks like this, North Little Rock’s Old Mill.
Media & Marketing / Retail

Ned Perme’s Long Career, Wrapped Up With a Bow

Ned Perme has enough snow in his hair now to befit his traditional role as the station’s holiday pianist, but he looks a decade younger than his 64 years. So it still came as a bit of a shock when he walked off the set Friday as a retiree. read more >
Education / Government & Politics / Legal

Want State Business? Stay on Israel’s Side

The Arkansas Times, which lost ad business with the University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College after rejecting pro-Israel language in an ad contract, is suing to neuter the state law requiring it. read more >
A screenshot of the Har-Ber Herald's investigative story originally published on Oct. 30 at HarBerHerald.com.
Education / Legal

Silenced Springdale Student Paper Rescued by State Law

Springdale’s Har-Ber High School shifted into reverse last week on its headline-making shutdown of the student newspaper, which had published an article the administration didn’t like. read more >
D.J. Williams
Education

Woo Pigs: Flirty Hogs Have a TV Teammate

D.J. Williams, the former star tight end for the Arkansas Razorbacks now at KARK-TV in Little Rock, found himself on opposing teams as the football season wound down, torn between his “Razorback family” and Channel 4’s news audience. read more >
Agriculture & Poultry / Restaurants & Food / Retail

Ghidotti, Rev365 Put Riceland on Holiday List

Riceland has big name recognition in Arkansas, a state that truly qualifies as America’s rice land, but the company is hoping to raise its profile elsewhere. read more >
Publisher John Robert Schirmer hopes his new Arkadelphia Dispatch will fill the hole left after GateHouse Media Inc. shuttered the Siftings Herald in September.
Education / Small Business

A News Dispatch From Arkadelphia

The Arkadelphia Dispatch, a weekly startup, is coming soon to the Clark County seat. read more >
Donna Axum Whitworth, seen here during her reign as Miss America 1964.
Media & Marketing

Remembering Donna Axum Whitworth, Crowned With Beauty and Humor

Donna Axum Whitworth, the El Dorado banker’s daughter who was the first Miss Arkansas to win as Miss America, back in 1964, died last week at 76. read more >
Steve Jonsson, president and CEO of Signal Media of Arkansas

‘The Ride’ Going After Listeners Who’re Already Listening

Steve Jonsson, president and CEO of Signal Media of Arkansas Inc., decided to tell listeners to one of his radio stations, KHLR-FM, The Ride, about what’s playing on a rival station, KSSN-FM of Little Rock. read more >
Donald Trump speaks to a 2014 luncheon at the National Press Club.
Government & Politics

Donald Trump Calls Out The Enemy, and It Is Us

Trump is hardly the first president to quarrel with the press, of course. But he’s surely the first to label government statistics phony, then trumpet them as true as soon as they make for good press. read more >
A screenshot from the home page of BlackAmericansMAGA.org, the website for the "Black Americans for the President's Agenda" PAC founded by Vernon Robinson (inset), shows President Trump shaking hands with a white supporter who is standing next to one of his black supporters.
Government & Politics / Legal

I’m French Hill, and I Didn’t Approve This Ad

Republican French Hill denounces a radio ad, which says that re-electing him to Congress is crucial to keeping Democrats from bringing back lynchings of black men, even though it urges voting for him. read more >
Wolf Blitzer with Jessica Dean, who joined CNN two weeks ago.
Government & Politics

Little Rock’s Jessica Dean Has a New Home at CNN

In Jessica Dean’s first week as a Washington correspondent, CNN threw her to the wolves. Or at least to the Wolf. read more >
Bill Solleder, Visit Hot Springs’ marketing chief, with his Oculus Go unit.
Government & Politics / Nonprofits / Retail

Hot Springs So Real You Feel Virtual Steam

A two-part production, “Hot Springs: The Experience of a Lifetime" is the centerpiece of Arkansas' first VR tourism campaign. read more >