Reporting for America, And a Hungry Fort Smith
Report for America, a nongovernment service program to improve local news coverage, has partnered with newsrooms across America to beef up reporting on under-covered issues and communities. read more >
Report for America, a nongovernment service program to improve local news coverage, has partnered with newsrooms across America to beef up reporting on under-covered issues and communities. read more >
The big crowds at the Arkansas State Fair affirmed new marketing approaches by GWL Advertising of Little Rock, the fair’s agency of record. read more >
An anonymous benefactor gave a record $1.5 million to University of Arkansas at Little Rock Public Radio, home to central Arkansas’ NPR station, KUAR-FM, 98.1, and the state’s only classical music FM station, KLRE Classical 90.5. read more >
Let's consider whether Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman Jr. has pulled a tree-climbing rabbit out of his hat. read more >
Siftings Herald and GateHouse veteran Joel Phelps has stepped up with Arkadelphian.com. He’s promoting it as a professionally edited 24/7 community news source, and he hopes to make it profitable. read more >
Group Five West has been telling its clients’ stories boldly for a half-century, all the while flying somewhat under the radar as a small but focused marketing and advertising company in downtown Little Rock. read more >
John Lovett, an eight-year fixture at the Southwest Times Record in Fort Smith, has joined a parade of journalists giving up daily newspaper work. read more >
As the first Black editor in chief of a magazine named for William Faulkner’s corner of Mississippi, Danielle A. Jackson feels a small pit in her stomach. read more >
Arkansas’ newest newspaper chain owner thinks technology has been the enemy of print news for too long. read more >
Associated Press correspondent and bureau chief Robert Shaw died last month in a Dallas suburb, surrounded by his family. read more >
Seven collegians or recent graduates worked for ad agency CJRW this summer, gaining expertise in all specialties at the firm and working on real client projects. read more >
Niketa Reed founded the Fayetteville media nonprofit Arkansas Soul with a mission beyond inclusion. Her idea felt more like immersion. read more >
Memphis born and raised, newscaster Jeané Franseen is no stranger to Arkansas, but it has taken her a little while to learn the tricks of navigating Little Rock. read more >
Walter Hussman Jr., generally thoughtful and shrewd, is taking a public blistering over emails he thought were private. read more >
Corporate and business leaders can fill a non-polarizing role as moderator while legislatures like Arkansas’ stoke the culture wars. read more >
Sales tax or no, Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. is ready to rebrand the city with a new marketing campaign, a new city flag and a new website. read more >
Paul Greenberg died on April 6 and was remembered as a sophisticated writer and thinker. read more >
Nate Disarro figures he profits at least three times when he tells the success stories of Arkansas’ captains of business. That’s a big part of his job running Content Titan of Little Rock. read more >
Through a few whirlwind months, Kapture Marketing has quickly discovered a niche serving the real estate industry in northwest Arkansas. read more >
Pat Lynch was built for radio, his old colleague Michael Hibblen says, perhaps because Lynch inhabited an audio world. read more >
