Newport Independent
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 >
by Kyle Massey -
Paxton Veteran Gretchen Hunt Named Editor of 4 Northeast Arkansas Papers
The Jonesboro Sun is among the publications she'll oversee. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
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 >
by Kyle Massey -
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 >