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 >
Rocky Hyatt can easily tell you why he talks up Channellock pliers; he’s not as sure why the Pennsylvania toolmaker chose him for an ad campaign. read more >
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman Jr. talks about replacing newspapers with iPads, why he's not selling his flagship and who his real competitors are. read more >
After decades as a reporter, TV anchor and PR pro and professor, Amy Oliver Barnes managed to bury the lead. read more >
A deal to end a power struggle between the state’s educational TV network and its nonprofit fundraising foundation is under negotiation. read more >
Last month, folks at the Atkins Chronicle felt the latest blow in a couple of hard-knock years when the small newspaper’s retail boxes were robbed. read more >
Tom Wood may be an Arkansas radio icon, but he's also one who's unemployed, a casualty of modern radio’s big chain era. read more >
Being Craig O’Neill is not always easy, Randy Hankins says, but somebody had to do it. read more >
Millie Ward spurned Amazon in 2017, and now she’s getting some love for “Love, Little Rock.” read more >
Mike Sells of the Sells Agency pointed out that three Little Rock firms are among 92 nationwide finalists for Silver Anvil Awards from the Public Relations Society of America. read more >
When digital ad sales surged at the Hot Springs Village Voice in 2018, General Manager Jennifer Allen had no trouble pinpointing the reason: Stephanie Highfill. read more >
After 180 years, it’s time for an update to "The Arkansas Traveler," thanks to the Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism and its marketing agency, CJRW. read more >
It’s no mystery why several of Little Rock’s biggest and best advertising and marketing agencies won absolutely no awards last month at the local American Advertising Awards. They didn’t enter the contest. read more >
The Fox News millionaire and I aren’t truly buddies, but we were friendly when we worked together at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in the 1990s. read more >
Elizabeth Michael has teamed up with Martin Thoma of Thoma Thoma to create Bud Agency, the marketing and PR firm devoted to the new medical marijuana industry. read more >
Pedophile comments attached to YouTube videos featuring children pushed multimillion-dollar advertisers like AT&T, Disney, Hasbro and Nestle to halt commercials on the Google-owned video website. read more >
After blazing a four-decade trail for Arkansas women, helping build the Arkansas Times and then ABPG into two of the state’s biggest independent multimedia firms, Olivia Farrell is taking her dogs and going home. read more >
With marketing visibility through Amazon.com and help from the online retailer’s order fulfillment service, Cindy Green’s Neurons Not Included has doubled sales nearly every year since 2012 read more >
Nice ads outnumbered good plays in Super Bowl LIII, a record low-scoring affair that left the New England Patriots champions again, 13-3 victors over the Los Angeles Rams. read more >
A recent tweet posed a tough question to news veterans. If a promising young person asked, would you still recommend a journalism career? read more >
