Two Press Ambassadors for Arkansas, Gone in a Week
Retired Dumas Clarion editor/owner Charlotte Schexnayder died Dec. 11 at just shy of 97 years. Dennis Schick, former APA executive director, died Dec. 15. read more >
Retired Dumas Clarion editor/owner Charlotte Schexnayder died Dec. 11 at just shy of 97 years. Dennis Schick, former APA executive director, died Dec. 15. read more >
Mark Rose, general manager of Channel 7, the Sinclair-owned ABC affiliate, tells Arkansas Business the move will proceed in 2021 after nearly a year of pandemic-related waiting. read more >
KTHV, Little Rock’s CBS affiliate, has “huge shoes to fill” after losing two-decade favorite Dawn Scott to the Janet Jones Co., a Little Rock real estate firm. read more >
The Stone County Leader is read all over Mountain View and Stone County, and it’s enduring while rivals sink in a sea of red ink. read more >
“Fort Worth and Dallas, about a million miles away,” Texas singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore croons, but Arkansas publisher Mitch Bettis knows better. read more >
Garver, the North Little Rock engineering and more firm, has grown exponentially in its 101-year history, but its name has been steadily shrinking. read more >
Craig Cannon is retiring Nov. 25 after 37 years at KHBS/KHOG, a span that saw him build an evolving newsroom in a booming region, report on an Arkansan’s rise to the White House, and discover new life as a family man. read more >
Journalism students are enduring at a time when reporters are vilified by politicians, spat upon and assaulted by partisans, and victimized by violent police officers and demonstrators at protests. read more >
More than a dozen media properties operating under familiar names in Arkansas are facing scrutiny after articles in The Guardian and The New York Times revealed them as purveyors of automated reporting and slanted news financed by political operatives and corporate interests. read more >
In the partnership, announced this month, Stone Ward will give students in the Batesville liberal arts college’s new data science program access to real-life raw data anonymized by the firm’s data analytics team. read more >
Shayla Copas is calling her new boutique marketing and PR business The Hive, mainly because she loves bees, but the name also connotes buzz, something she’s created in her 20 years of interior and event design. read more >
UA Little Rock Professor Sonny Rhodes won the 2020 Arkansas Press Association Journalism Educator of the Year award last month. read more >
Vice Chancellor Braque Talley of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff knows well that teenagers don’t watch TV or turn on the car radio as their parents and grandparents do. read more >
Allie Brown is a proud University of Central Arkansas alum, but make no mistake: As the new director of digital marketing for Jenkins Enterprises, she knows how to call the Hogs. read more >
Wehco Media boss Walter Hussman Jr. is bringing his 21st century digital revolution to his grandfather C.E. Palmer’s first paper, the Texarkana Gazette. read more >
Misty Orpin is handing off her latest baby, the pandemic news and data site arkansascovid.com, which she birthed on her laptop and raised to indispensability. read more >
Byron Tate has a simple reason to be back as editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial, where he has worked three times before. read more >
The advertising gods giveth, and they taketh away, particularly these days. read more >
Blake Rutherford has partnered up with two other Arkansans to create SourceStream, an interconnected politics outlet for the live-streaming generation. read more >
It’s been a year since local investors bought and revived the Helena World, and Andrew Bagley, one of the new owners, reports that he is serving as editor as the weekly perseveres through the coronavirus crisis. read more >
