Lynn Hamilton
President of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Lynn Hamilton Retires After 48 Years
Lynn Hamilton joined the Arkansas Democrat age 26 in 1974 and is retiring this month from a lifetime career at Wehco Media. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
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 >
by Kyle Massey -
Building the Firewall (Lance Turner Editor’s Note)
While online scams and hacking have been around for decades, bad actors are becoming more sophisticated and scaling their operations to target more people. read more >
by Lance Turner -
Dem-Gaz Digital Edition Returns After Cyberattack Against Distributor
Hundreds of publications distributed by PressReader were affected by the outage. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
124K Readers for Democrat-Gazette, Not Subscribers
Independent audits of newspaper circulation are, like the papers themselves, increasingly a thing of the past. read more >
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 >
by Kyle Massey -
Pulse Taken for Democrat-Gazette Sunday Circulation
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette President Lynn Hamilton says that current Sunday print circulation is roughly 62,000, including home delivery and single-copy sales. read more >
Democrat-Gazette Bets on a Dollar
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette offers six months of digital-only access to certain non-subscribers for one dollar. read more >
‘Cost to Cure’ Backs $8M Buy From Democrat-Gazette
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette gets $8 million in a right-of-way acquisition deal as the Arkansas Department of Transportation begins work on its $1 billion 30 Crossing project in metro Little Rock. read more >
by George Waldon -
Arkansas Life, 12, Dies Amid Pandemic
After 18 months of heroic measures, death came last week for Arkansas Life. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
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 >
by Kyle Massey -
Papers in Peril, Part II: ‘Got to Reduce Our Costs’
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 >
by Kyle Massey -
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 >
by Kyle Massey -
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 >
by Kyle Massey -
News Beat Goes On, Remotely and Free, at Democrat-Gazette
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette made a little history last week in covering a historic threat, the COVID-19 outbreak that has shut down normal social life in the United States and around the globe. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Hussman Heir Taking Reins of Democrat-Gazette Newsroom
Eliza Gaines gets ready to take over for retiring Managing Editor David Bailey and seizing the reins as the paper plots a quick return to profitability. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Fighting to Survive, Democrat-Gazette Sues Alleged Turncoat
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette says a former employee of its digital marketing subsidiary, Flypaper, stole company secrets and violated a noncompetition agreement. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Non-Newsroom Cuts Eliminate 28 Jobs at Democrat-Gazette
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette of Little Rock, wrapping up its bold shift to digital publishing, announced 28 non-newsroom layoffs Wednesday, mostly in production and printing. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Ashdown Paper Inactive; Democrat-Gazette Digital Numbers Up
As one Arkansas newspaper ended a 121-year publishing history last month in Ashdown, the dogged statewide daily — the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette — reported strong sales for its future-driven model: a digital replica newspaper on iPad and a printed Sunday paper. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Digital Plan Saving Jobs in News, Democrat-Gazette Exec Says
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is on its last legs as a printed daily newspaper, but those legs may have strength enough to carry the business into a new digital era. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
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