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 >

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 >

North Pulaski County publisher Garrick Feldman, who has wanted to cover news in North Little Rock for 30 years, is getting his chance in the wake of the shutdown of the North Little Rock Times this week. read more >

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 >

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 >

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 >

Ashley Wimberley, the daughter of longtime northeast Arkansas newspaper publishers, has been named the permanent executive director of the Arkansas Press Association in Little Rock. read more >

Tom Larimer announces his retirement after 13 years as executive director of the Arkansas Press Association, declaring he's ready to play some golf and "just do nothing for a while." read more >