Ernest Dumas

Bill Clinton and a parade of venerable newspaper folks throw a 200th birthday party for a state treasure, the old Arkansas Gazette. read more >

Ernest Dumas, the Arkansas Gazette veteran and dean of the state’s political reporters, published his fly-on-the-wall retrospective last month with Butler Center Press. read more >

After an Arkansas journalism career spanning 65 years and an estimated 10,000 articles, columns and editorials, Ernest Dumas says he may have written his last. read more >

Arkansas Times, the Little Rock weekly newspaper founded in 1974, is returning to a monthly format after more than a quarter-century, Editor Lindsey Millar announced. read more >

Jerol Garrison, the former Arkansas Gazette reporter who made a name for himself in the business world as director of communication for Arkansas Power & Light Co., died Thursday in Fayetteville, his home for the last seven years. He was 86. read more >

Roy Reed, the former Arkansas Gazette reporter and New York Times correspondent who died last month at age 87, is remembered by Ernest Dumas, his heir as Arkansas’ senior reporter. read more >

Arkansas Democrat photographer Will Counts captured the beating of newspaper reporter L. Alex Wilson outside Central High School in 1957, and his images stunned viewers then and have embarrassed Arkansas for 60 years. read more >

In a two-hour, laughter-filled talk at a Little Rock coffee shop near his Hillcrest home a few weeks ago, Ernest Dumas held forth on Hillary Clinton’s likability problem, the infamous Arkansas Democrat editor John Robert Starr and the jumbled state of journalism. read more >