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Jonathan Coleman
Education / Health Care / Media & Marketing

Jonathan Coleman Named Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor for Enrollment at UALR (Movers & Shakers)

Coleman is the director of financial aid and scholarships and will serve in both roles while a national search is conducted. read more >
Bethany Siems
Education / Health Care / Media & Marketing

Ghidotti’s Bethany Siems Elected VP of the Public Relations Society of America Arkansas Chapter (Movers & Shakers)

As vice president, Siems will help lead the society to serve professionals in the communications industry by providing community and professional development. read more >
Education / Legal / Media & Marketing

University of the Ozarks President Elected to Higher Learning Commission Board of Trustees

Richard L. Dunsworth joined the commission in 2007 and was elected to a four-year term on the board in 2018. read more >
Richard L. Dunsworth
Education / Legal / Media & Marketing

University of the Ozarks President Elected to Higher Learning Commission Board (Movers & Shakers)

Richard L. Dunsworth joined the commission in 2007 and was elected to a four-year term on the board in 2018. read more >
Paul Greenberg
Media & Marketing

Media Comings, Goings, and a Colleague’s Death

Paul Greenberg died on April 6 and was remembered as a sophisticated writer and thinker. read more >
Government & Politics / Media & Marketing

Open Mike: Ads for Bloomberg Pump $2M Into Arkansas MarketsLock Icon

A $320 million ad push by Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg is driving up prices in Arkansas and elsewhere before Super Tuesday, March 3. read more >
Construction / Media & Marketing / Real Estate

KFSM Builds Home in Johnson

The Inn at the Mill in Johnson (Washington County) is getting a big new neighbor, the news operations of KFSM and KXNW, known as 5News. read more >
Chris Kane
Media & Marketing / Public Companies

A Word From Sinclair, and Giggles from John Oliver

KATV's Chris Kane appearance in a video clip shown on HBO's “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” illustrated a line that apparently bears repeating. read more >
Lisenne Rockefeller, left, and Garrett Lewis will be honored on Sept. 6 at the Children's Advocacy Centers of Arkansas' annual dinner. 
Nonprofits

CACA Will Present Awards to Lisenne Rockefeller, Garrett Lewis

Children's Advocacy Centers of Arkansas will honor Lisenne Rockefeller as its 2017 Arkansas Woman of Inspiration at the nonprofit's annual dinner on Sept. 6 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. read more >
Media & Marketing

Affiliations Shift Among Arkansas Stations Following Sinclair Deal

Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns KATV in Little Rock, reached a deal a couple of weeks ago to acquire Tribune Media Co., owner of KFSM in Fort Smith, for close to $4 billion. read more >
KNWA morning anchor Jennifer Penate
Media & Marketing

KNWA Adds Jennifer Penate to Morning Team

Jennifer Penate is a new morning anchor at KNWA and its sister station KFTA, broadcasting out of Fayetteville. read more >
Krystle Sherrell
Media & Marketing

Krystle Sherrell Joins KFSM Channel 5

Arkansas native Krystle Sherrell has joined KFSM-TV, Channel 5, as a Fort Smith-based reporter. Sherrell grew up in Maumelle and graduated from Central High School before an award-winning broadcasting career at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. read more >
Heather Geller
Media & Marketing

KFSM’s Heather Geller Takes Off for Tulsa TV

Heather Geller, once a cheerleader at Sacramento State University before jumping to Oklahoma State, has now switched TV teams, leaving KFSM-TV, Channel 5, in Fayetteville, to continue her sports reporting career at KOKI-TV, Fox 23, in Tulsa. read more >

Arkansas Business Power List 2016: Media & Marketing

A media and marketing resource to help navigate the leadership of the largest Arkansas companies or institutions. read more >
April Baker
Media & Marketing

April Baker Takes on Mornings for KFSM

April Baker is the new weekday morning anchor at KFSM, Channel 5, in Fort Smith/northwest Arkansas. She comes to Arkansas from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. KFSM, by the way, is looking into moving more of its operations to NWA. read more >
Bobby Swofford
Media & Marketing

KFSM Changing TV Faces In Northwest Arkansas

KFSM-TV, Channel 5, made some recent staffing shifts with the departure of the station’s sports director and managing editor. read more >
Liza Danver
Legal / Media & Marketing

KFSM-TV in Spotlight After Arrest, Order

The arrest of anchor Liza Danver and a judge’s contempt finding against Managing Editor Larry Henry that was resolved with a story assignment both grabbed headlines around the state and at national outlets, including Adweek’s “TV Spy.” read more >
Liza Danver
Media & Marketing

KFSM Channel 5 Adds Liza Danver as Weeknight Anchor

In the northwest part of the state, KFSM-TV, Channel 5, has added a new anchor, Liza Danver. read more >
Media & Marketing

KFSM Replaces News Director Rick Bagley

Vice President and News Director Rick Bagley has left the station for KTRK-TV, an ABC affiliate in Houston. In his place, KFSM has hired Bill Cummings as news director read more >
Education / Media & Marketing

Relative Value (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)

Things that should be highly valued, in real dollar terms, often are not, and teaching is one of those things. read more >