Log Cabin Democrat
Extra! Extra! The Paper’s Hiring
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is looking to fill positions in news, business and sports as it tries to keep up in a hot job market. 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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Brainstorming to Save Local News in Crisis
The financial damage from the pandemic is amplified because ad spending tends to decrease faster than overall business spending in a recession, and job losses from COVID are unprecedented. 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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Daily Papers in Free Fall Despite COVID-19 Readership
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in America, daily newspapers enjoy their largest readership in years, but an eroding ad-based business model seems to be washing away altogether. read more >
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Kelly Sublett Signs On with Vowell
Kelly Sublett, the former Log Cabin Democrat publisher who lost her post when the Conway paper and several sister publications were sold two weeks ago, quickly took a new post as COO of Vowell Inc. 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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GateHouse Sold Conway Paper to Paxton, Former Publisher Says in Post
The Log Cabin Democrat in Conway has been sold by GateHouse Media to Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Kentucky, according to the paper's group publisher until Friday, Kelly Sublett. 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 >
In Print, Grim Numbers But Some Successes
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 >
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Two Editors Lost In a Battered Industry
The Denver Post and the Log Cabin Democrat lost splendid editors this month, both exemplars of Arkansas journalism and former newsroom colleagues of mine. read more >
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David McCollum, Decorated Conway Sports Writer, Dies at 68
David McCollum, the Arkansas sportswriter who covered Olympic Games and NCAA championships but was best known for writing about local athletes for nearly four decades at the Log Cabin Democrat in Conway, died Monday after heart surgery in North Little Rock. read more >
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Thoughts on Sinclair, After Working for John Robert Starr
No, local news folks shouldn’t be pledging their bosses’ allegiance to Trump in the media wars. But they are at financial gunpoint. read more >
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What’s the North Metro? To Log Cabin Democrat, an Opportunity
The Log Cabin Democrat in Conway introduced the North Metro Business Journal this month, partnering with the Conway Area Chamber of Commerce to highlight real estate news, groundbreakings, construction and company innovations in the area around Conway. read more >
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Sublett to Lead GateHouse Papers in Conway, Clinton, Heber Springs
GateHouse Media names Kelly Sublett as its group publisher for newspapers in Conway, Clinton and Heber Springs. read more >
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David McCollum Looks Back on 50 Years of Sports, and the Wider World
Memories came rushing back last week as David McCollum reviewed a half-century of writing sports, including a stint at the Arkansas Democrat and then 35 years at the Log Cabin Democrat in Conway. read more >
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GateHouse Buys Log Cabin, Other Morris Publications for $120M
Months of speculation about a possible sale of the Log Cabin Democrat, Conway's daily newspaper, came to fruition early Wednesday when Morris Communications announced a sale to GateHouse Media. read more >
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Three Women Take Charge at Log Cabin Democrat
Cynthia Crabb, Betsey Barham and Kelly Sublett took over officially last week as the Log Cabin Democrat, Conway’s daily newspaper, dispensed with having a publisher. read more >
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For Now, Log Cabin Democrat Stays Hitched to Morris Communications
Whispers have been growing that the Log Cabin Democrat of Conway may be sold to Gatehouse Media Inc., which in recent years has snapped up Arkansas dailies like the Pine Bluff Commercial and Southwest Times Record in Fort Smith. read more >
Log Cabin Democrat Changes Won’t Reduce Staff Numbers
The recent departure of the assistant managing editor of the Log Cabin Democrat apparently won’t result in a shrinking newsroom. read more >