Arkansas Public Media

Ask Bobby Ampezzan if he’s missing journalism, and you’ll get two answers. read more >

Bobby Ampezzan, the Arkansas journalist whose job as managing editor of Arkansas Public Media was eliminated recently when major public radio grant funding ended, has joined Mangan Holcomb Partners/Team SI of Little Rock as a public relations executive. read more >

Bobby Ampezzan didn’t learn he was on the firing line till August, but he knew his nonprofit Arkansas Public Media project was in trouble when an 11th-hour appeal for additional national grant money crashed. Spectacularly. read more >

Don’t mourn the complete loss of Arkansas Public Media, the statewide news collaboration of the state’s public radio stations whose major grant funding ran out at the end of September. read more >

With grant money running out, cutbacks have arrived for Arkansas Public Media, the regional public journalism collaborative headquartered at the public radio stations of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. read more >

As regulators weigh arguments on how utility customers should pay for self-generated electricity, the lawmaker who helped initiate the process clarifies which side he's on: the utilities. read more >

Vanessa McKuin, who helped get Arkansas Public Media off the ground by managing business side of the regional journalism collaborative, has become development director for University of Arkansas at Little Rock public radio. read more >

A recent panel of broadcasters noted several milestones, including the 50th anniversary of legislation funding the CPB, the 50th year of AETN and the 60th anniversary of KASU, the state’s oldest public media outlet. read more >

The Arkansas Public Media executive describes the nonprofit’s mission, and discusses media credibility in a “fake news” era. read more >

In an era when “fake news” is a rallying cry and the Trump administration is attacking the press as a “failing” opposition party, Lindsay Millar has launched the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network as a “nonpartisan news project dedicated to producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.” read more >

Bobby Ampezzan and Vanessa McKuin are leading a new multimedia startup based at KUAR-FM in Little Rock, funded by a grant of $287,300 from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. read more >