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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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A News Dispatch From Arkadelphia
The Arkadelphia Dispatch, a weekly startup, is coming soon to the Clark County seat. read more >
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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 >
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‘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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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