An Ex-Insider's Look at a Bad NYT Headline
More than three and a half years after getting the ax from The New York Times, I have a chance to say I told you so. I’m not going to, exactly. read more >
Tagged: Outtakes
Will Fortune Favor the Future of News?
Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman has staked his paper’s future on readers taking the iPad path to daily news. That change in our reading habits have coincided with another sign of the apocalypse for daily papers, the $1.4 billion merger of America’s two largest newspaper chains, Gannett and GateHouse. read more >
Should Arkansas Quadruple P. Allen Smith’s Pay?
Before calculating whether Arkansas gardening and lifestyle celebrity P. Allen Smith is worth $845,000 a year to the state for promotion, consider this: State tourism and marketing officials say they have better ways to spend the $200,000 a year Smith has been getting. read more >
Wes Pruden, 1935-2019: A Black & White Legacy
Wesley Pruden, a gifted writer who got ink in his blood as a teenage staffer at the Arkansas Gazette and went on to make the “Moonie”-owned Washington Times a favorite of conservatives, including President Ronald Reagan, died after a heart attack July 17 in Washington. read more >
Judging a Clean Line Book by Its Hero and Antagonist
A new book by Russell Gold, “Superpower: One Man’s Quest to Transform American Energy," casts Clean Line Partners' bid to build a huge transmission line for solar and wind power across mid-America as visionary and environmentally heroic. read more >
Hooten’s Hears a Hog, Hits Publishing Paydirt
As publisher of Hooten’s Arkansas Football, the preseason bible for the state’s high school and college fans, Chad Hooten sees the Hogs as his bread and butter, or at least the ham in his sandwich. read more >
Big Post for a PR Pro, but Little Self-Promotion
If you think Heide Harrell impressed the Public Relations Society of America with her diligence, you’re probably right. read more >
From Trusted Reporter Ernie Dumas, Lessons of a Lifetime
Ernest Dumas, the Arkansas Gazette veteran and dean of the state’s political reporters, published his fly-on-the-wall retrospective last month with Butler Center Press. read more >
Print Veterans Start Monthly in Melbourne
After about 75 years of combined publishing experience in north Arkansas, best friends and business partners Angelia Roberts and Kay Tharp of Melbourne have made themselves a home, Next Door. read more >
Arkansas Reporters on Covering Disasters, Staying Human
Plunging into disaster zones and telling the story is a job as old as journalism, but it’s perilous in body and spirit, so reporters should tread carefully. read more >
Kelly Sublett Signs On with Vowell
Kelly Sublett, the former Log Cabin Democrat publisher who lost her post when the Conway paper and several sister publications were sold two weeks ago, quickly took a new post as COO of Vowell Inc. read more >
An Old Friend, the LCD, Joins Paxton News Chain
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 >
Have Tools, Will Travel: Arkansan Featured in Ad
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 >
Walter Hussman Risks Business 'In Order to Save It'
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 >
Amy Barnes Talks Jobs in PR, and Retirement
After decades as a reporter, TV anchor and PR pro and professor, Amy Oliver Barnes managed to bury the lead. read more >
Documents Shed Light on AETN Power Struggle
A deal to end a power struggle between the state’s educational TV network and its nonprofit fundraising foundation is under negotiation. read more >
Insult Added to Injury at the Atkins Chronicle
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 >
Wanted: Job in Radio. Experience: Legendary.
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 >
What’s in a Name? 47 Years of Craig O’Neill
Being Craig O’Neill is not always easy, Randy Hankins says, but somebody had to do it. read more >
'Love, Little Rock' Gets PRWeek Affection
Millie Ward spurned Amazon in 2017, and now she’s getting some love for “Love, Little Rock.” read more >
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