Eliza Hussman Gaines

Starting as a clerk and rising to managing editor, she has shaped almost every aspect of the paper’s coverage. read more >

Arkansas Times Publisher Alan Leveritt and Director of Development Wythe Walker have hit upon a new business model for profit-making news outlets: tak read more >

Over nearly six decades, she published and edited four weekly newspapers, including the oldest weekly in the state, the Dardanelle Post-Dispatch. read more >

On May 31, Editor Alyson Hoge announced that the paper was starting to reserve certain content exclusively for paying subscribers. read more >

The once-celebrated Dilbert comic strip no longer appears in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, one of hundreds of newspapers that dropped the strip. read more >

How the relationship among three Arkansas families can continue to pay dividends. read more >

A generational leadership shift is happening among key Arkansas companies and families. read more >

The first woman to lead the newsroom, Gaines will now be the first to oversee daily operations. read more >

Walter Hussman Jr., 75, is ending 48 years as publisher of the Democrat-Gazette at the end of this year, with news of his successor expected soon. read more >

Will Eliza Hussman Gaines succeed her father, Walter Hussman Jr., as publisher as he steps down this year? read more >

Cutbacks at American dailies have been coming, well, daily, and Democrat-Gazette President and General Manager Lynn Hamilton put out a call last Monday for all employees to consider voluntary furloughs or perhaps working four rather than five days a week, at commensurate pay. read more >

Longtime Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Managing Editor David Bailey is retiring, making way for the publisher’s daughter, Eliza Hussman Gaines, to take the top editorship. read more >