Jonesboro Sun
Young Editors Join Jonesboro Sun and Jonesboro Right Now
Paxton Media Group has named television news veteran Jillianne Moncrief as editor of The Jonesboro Sun. Moncrief was previously the morning executive news producer at WPSD-TV, a Paxton-owned television station […] read more >
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Plight of a Newspaper (Hunter Field Editor’s Note)
The future continues to be bleak for newspapers. It’s going to cost us more than we realize. read more >
Jonesboro Right Now Offers Readers Free Online News Source
Joe Schratz, former assistant managing editor of the Jonesboro Sun, is chief reporter of the news site, which launched Tuesday. read more >
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Jackson County Solar Project Could Be State’s Largest
About 1,900 acres of property along U.S. 67 near Newport is being prepped for the project. read more >
Aaron Sadler Named Spokesman for LR Mayor Frank Scott
He's a former journalist and communications specialist who has served five state attorneys general. read more >
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Keeping Up With News in Northeast Arkansas
If you don’t know how important a newspaper is to a community, proceed to a town that has lost one and ask around. read more >
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Paxton Veteran Gretchen Hunt Named Editor of 4 Northeast Arkansas Papers
The Jonesboro Sun is among the publications she'll oversee. read more >
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Price of Jonesboro Sun Building? $2.1M
The buyer plans to restore the building and "make it a thriving part of downtown Jonesboro." read more >
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Will 70,000 Subscribers Make a Rabbit Climb?
Let's consider whether Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman Jr. has pulled a tree-climbing rabbit out of his hat. read more >
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Jonesboro Sun Building’s Sale Reflects New Economy of News
The paper is among many that have sought savings in a deeply besieged industry where readers, advertisers and revenue have been fleeing to the web. read more >
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Paxton Newspaper Employees’ Data Copied, Company Reveals
Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Kentucky, which owns the Jonesboro Sun, the Batesville Guard, the Daily Citizen of Searcy and other Arkansas newspapers, suffered a cyber attack that potentially compromised employees’ birthdates, Social Security numbers and banking data. read more >
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D-G Offers Voluntary Furloughs in Pandemic Crisis; Paxton Cuts Jobs
As other Arkansas daily newspapers bleed staff and cut back printing, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has given employees a dilemma: Accept a work furlough now to cut the odds of being laid off later. read more >
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Walnut Ridge Paper Sold After Century of Bland Family Ownership
The Times Dispatch of Walnut Ridge is changing hands after nearly a century of Bland family ownership, joining an old ally — the Jonesboro Sun — as a property of Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Kentucky. read more >
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An Old Friend, the LCD, Joins Paxton News Chain
The Log Cabin Democrat’s circulation has dwindled to 3,925 on weekdays and about 5,300 on Sundays, about half what it was in the mid-1980s, even as the town has grown to 65,000 people. The decline shocks nobody following the daily newspaper industry, which is dying in the internet age. read more >
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Log Cabin Democrat, Other GateHouse Papers Primed for Purchase
They’re not writing the headlines yet, but media industry insiders are whispering about a possible sale of the Log Cabin Democrat and three other GateHouse Media newspapers in Arkansas to the Paxton Media chain of Paducah, Kentucky. read more >
Walter Hussman Boasts of Sentinel-Record’s Profit
While Wehco Media Owner Walter Hussman cuts back on the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's daily print delivery, he's also proud of the financial success of the Sentinel-Record in Hot Springs 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 >
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 >
John Troutt, Longtime Jonesboro Publisher and Editor, Dies at 88
John Troutt Jr., the longtime Jonesboro Sun publisher and editor who went to work at his family’s paper as a 10-year-old newsboy and turned the small-town afternoon daily into a Pulitzer Prize contender, died Thursday night in Jonesboro. He was 88. read more >
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The Changing of The Batesville Daily Guard
In the wake of the death this year of Dr. O.E. Jones, publisher of the Batesville Guard, Roy Ockert was unsurprised to hear that Paxton Media Group acquired the paper June 1. read more >
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