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 >
There may be no bald eagles, but Mangan Holcomb Partners/Team SI has a sleek new perch in Rogers with a lovely view, a thirst-quenching past and a staff of three. read more >
Children often move back home in hard times, so nobody was shocked last week when Little Rock magazine SAVVYKids announced it was folding into its parent publication, the Arkansas Times. read more >
Walter Hussman knows that the days of big daily newspaper profits are gone. Now it takes continual innovation just to keep a shingle up. read more >
Ask Bobby Ampezzan if he’s missing journalism, and you’ll get two answers. read more >
Little Rock media couple Ashley Ketz and Aaron Nolan of KARK are moving to Chicago. read more >
After 18 months of heroic measures, death came last week for Arkansas Life. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson is caught between his deep allegiance to faith and commerce and his duty to public safety in deciding how much to tell the public in the coronavirus pandemic. read more >
Jerry McConnell, who helped legendary Arkansas Gazette Sports Editor Orville Henry shield the besieged paper financially when it stood up for Little Rock school integration in the 1950s, died June 25 at home in Greenwood. read more >
This month’s legal action by fired Razorback football coach Bret Bielema paints the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's Wally Hall as something of a stenographer for the Razorback Foundation, Bielema’s target in a $7 million breach-of-promise lawsuit. read more >
The face of journalism today is battered and bloody, and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette published proof on June 4. read more >
