New York Times
‘An Instagram-Perfect Life’ (Gwen Moritz Commentary)
There is a cautionary tale for all of us in the sad story of a New York man’s self-destruction. read more >
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Music to Our Ears (Editorial)
The ASO’s new music center is just one example of the orchestra’s visionary approach. read more >
Northwest Arkansas Council Hosts FutureIsNow Session at Crystal Bridges
The session will feature a panel of community activists, city officials and a representative from the 11th Street Bridge Park in Washington D.C., the city’s first elevated public park. read more >
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Arkansas Filmmaker Killed in Ukraine Recalled as Fearless, Thoughtful
"At the first sign of something dangerous or unknown, he’s compelled to tell the story," a friend said of Brent Renaud. read more >
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Hannah-Jones Chooses Howard After N. Carolina Tenure Fight
A Black journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize says she will not join the University of North Carolina following an extended tenure fight that involved Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman. read more >
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A White Donor’s Campaign Against a Black Journalist
Walter Hussman Jr., generally thoughtful and shrewd, is taking a public blistering over emails he thought were private. read more >
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Arkansas Panel Rejects Ban on ‘1619 Project’ in Schools
An Arkansas House panel rejects legislation that would have banned schools from teaching a New York Times project on slavery's legacy, one of several attempts in Republican states to limit how race is taught. read more >
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Tom Cotton’s Dunk on The New York Times
Yes, Tom Cotton owned the liberals at The New York Times. read more >
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Lauding ‘Force’ Against Protests, Tom Cotton Raises Profile
Freshman Sen. Tom Cotton has risen to the ranks of potential 2024 Republican presidential contenders by making all the right enemies. By lining up behind President Donald Trump’s law-and-order recipe for controlling civic unrest, he’s making even more. read more >
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The Paradox of Thrift (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
Saving money is good for the individual but bad for the overall economy because it reduces aggregate demand. read more >
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Benefit of the Doubt (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
The techniques used to commit journalism are always going to be fascinating to me, but the contrast between the New York Times and NBC was disturbing. read more >
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Fake It Till You Break It (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
Overestimating one’s own competence is not really the news here. What's new is the consistency with which other people — complete strangers, even — interpret confidence as competence. read more >
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Just My Luck (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
The vast majority of daily local newspapers are cash-starved — the first industry to starve to death when consumer demand for its product is at an all-time high. read more >
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On the Opioid Beat (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
It turns out that more careful prescribing guidelines don’t fix pre-existing dependency, and illegal replacements are even more deadly. read more >
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Pimples, Pints and Press: SPJ Showcases Ethics
Questions, thorny and serious, were fodder for fun and discussion for the Arkansas Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, who put their ethics to the test — along with their acting – in an exercise called What Would You Run? read more >
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Heights Home Featured in New York Times’ ‘What You Get’
A renovated house in Little Rock’s Heights neighborhood was scheduled to be part of the “What You Get” feature in the real estate section of Sunday’s New York Times. read more >
Ernest Dumas on Roy Reed: ‘His Strength Was In Telling the Story’
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 >
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Trump Triumph, Media Fail: The View From Arkansas
In Arkansas, journalists and media educators weigh in on a new media world following the election of Donald Trump as president. read more >
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So Change the Law (Editorial)
A recent New York Times article pointed out something that had also been nagging at us here at Arkansas Business: otherwise law-abiding citizens being charged and convicted of a federal felony known as structuring. read more >
As You Hoped And/Or Feared (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)
Arkansas, through sheer political will that strikes me as more miraculous every day, bucked the trend of conservative states turning away federal dollars to fund health insurance for the working poor. read more >
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