Arkansas Industries Attempt to Divine The Post-Pandemic Future
Some, like the hospitality industry, are bracing for a long, slow return to pre-COVID vitality. Others, like the energy sector, see a quicker recovery after the early swoon. Some trends seem baked into expectations, like reliance on home-based employees and the technology they use. read more >
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Publisher Jay Jackson Dies at 94
Longtime Arkansas publisher and former Clinton Chamber of Commerce President Jay W. Jackson died March 6 in Rogers. He was 94. read more >
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In Merger Run-Up, GateHouse Is Closing Papers in Stuttgart, Helena
In the run-up to a $1.4 billion merger with Gannett that would create the nation's biggest newspaper chain, GateHouse Media Inc. is closing two Arkansas papers, the Stuttgart Daily Leader and the semi-weekly Helena World. read more >
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Walter Hussman Risks Business ‘In Order to Save It’
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman Jr. talks about replacing newspapers with iPads, why he's not selling his flagship and who his real competitors are. read more >
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Insult Added to Injury at the Atkins Chronicle
Last month, folks at the Atkins Chronicle felt the latest blow in a couple of hard-knock years when the small newspaper’s retail boxes were robbed. read more >
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Arkansas Legislators Seek More Limits on Public Records
Two years after the Arkansas Legislature scaled back the state's decades-old law protecting public access to government records, lawmakers are considering making even more information secret. read more >
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El Dorado A&P Leaves Light On Hotel Revenues
Candlewood Suites in El Dorado is the city's top hotel by gross receipts, according to a list released by the El Dorado Advertising & Promotion Commission. read more >
Number of 7-Day Newspapers Drops to 8 in Arkansas
With the Pine Bluff Commercial consolidating its Sunday print operation into a weekend edition to be published on Saturday, the count of seven-day-a-week papers remaining in the state shrank once again. read more >
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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Recent Real Estate Deals Total $1.67M
Mojuva LLC of Maumelle, led by Brandon and Kelly Hines, bought 124.6 acres on the north side of Highway 365, at Stanley Road on the northern edge of Maumelle, for $700,000. read more >
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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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Circulation Corrected, But Still Down
Questions about declining circulation numbers printed last month in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette sent executives at the daily paper scrambling to grab a pencil and recalculate. read more >
No Arkadelphia Paper? Say It Ain’t So, GateHouse
After back-to-back weeks of notable newspaper shutdowns by GateHouse Media Group Inc., including The Times of North Little Rock and the Arkadelphia Siftings-Herald, we seem to be at a tipping point for local journalism in Arkansas. read more >
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Garrick Feldman Knows Story of Survival, Not Just in Publishing
The publisher of Jacksonville newspaper The Leader talks about his plans for expansion, his reaction to Trump tariffs and briefly about the family saga that got him to where he is today. read more >
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Arkansas Newspaper Foundation Director Karen Brown Retires
Karen Brown of Bentonville has retired after 14 years as executive director of the Arkansas Newspaper Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Arkansas Press Association. read more >
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GateHouse Shutting Down Pulaski, Lonoke County Papers
GateHouse Media Inc., the national chain that owns more U.S. newspapers than any other, is shutting down its weekly print papers in Pulaski and Lonoke counties, the company’s senior group publisher based in Pine Bluff confirmed Tuesday morning. read more >
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Paxton Buys Batesville Guard, State’s Last Non-Chain Family-Owned Daily
The last non-chain family-owned daily newspaper in Arkansas, The Batesville Daily Guard, is no longer independent, bought last week by the Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Kentucky. read more >
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In Print, Grim Numbers But Some Successes
Numbers in the new Arkansas Media Directory from the Arkansas Press Association offer a wealth of detail on the state’s 82 weekly, nine semiweekly and 21 daily newspapers. But for fans of the inky publishing industry, they make for pretty grim reading. read more >
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Two North Arkansas Newspapers Listed for Sale
The Marshall Mountain Wave and the Mountaineer Echo of Flippin in the north Arkansas Ozarks are for sale for $285,000 read more >
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