Gov. Hutchinson puzzled techies and Luddites alike by making a federal case out of what seemed to be a good Samaritan’s report that the Arkansas Pandemic Unemployment Assistance website was inadvertently revealing applicants’ Social Security and banking numbers. read more >
The Helena World is headed back to its old orbit, and a growing digital news outlet in Magnolia is putting down brick-and-mortar roots, company owners say. read more >
Lindsey Millar, the editor of the Arkansas Times, is reviving his semi-outside project, the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network, with a coronavirus-age fervor. read more >
A new $650,000 communications campaign for the state’s COVID economic recovery task force is in development at CJRW, the state’s longtime marketing firm for parks and tourism. read more >
Walter Hussman Jr., the Democrat-Gazette publisher and chairman of Wehco Inc., the chain that owns the paper, shared details last week after obtaining federal coronavirus relief loans through Simmons Bank of Pine Bluff. read more >
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 >
The El Dorado News-Times has promoted Caitlan Butler to managing editor. Just eight years ago, Butler, 26, was busy graduating from El Dorado High School. read more >
When editor Eliza Borné looked to extend the Oxford American’s literate and unapologetically Southern voice last year, she turned to an executive editor with precisely the right skill set for podcasting. read more >
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 >
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 >
Melinda Mayo and Barry Brandt are just two examples of local news team members using connective tech and personal ingenuity to send news and weather reports from their homes to yours. read more >
Just as it has on American life, COVID-19 is reshaping the American way of death, disrupting yet another industry as families set small graveside services, postpone memorials and in some places turn to cremation rather than burial. read more >
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 >
After 22 years in ad agency marketing, Brian Rudisill stepped off into the void, tethered to an idea. read more >
Longtime Arkansas publisher and former Clinton Chamber of Commerce President Jay W. Jackson died March 6 in Rogers. He was 94. read more >
The Communications Group’s Women in Industry series recognizes women in the industries the agency serves, particularly agriculture, industrial manufacturing and the government-to-citizen sector. read more >
Tim Whitley has cookies on his mind, and not just because the Girl Scouts’ sales season is winding down. read more >
Ross Cranford likes to think his dad, Wayne Cranford, is “having a scotch and soda with Charles Portis somewhere.” read more >
While he's encouraged by a 79% conversion rate of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette subscribers switching from print to iPads, Walter Hussman says he’d overlooked subscriber attrition, known in the industry as “churn.” read more >
KTHV chief meteorologist Ed Buckner announced in a Facebook post he's taking a leave of absence to heal from complications of Tourette syndrome. read more >
