Resource Guide: Financial Tools, Aid for Businesses Hurt by COVID-19
Arkansas Business is regularly updating this page with links and contact information for businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
Tagged: Media
Ad, PR Pros Connect While Keeping Their Distance
How some of the state's advertising, marketing and public relations businesses are keeping the messages flowing during the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
Arkansas Businesses Should Prepare Now to Apply for Federal Aid
Businesses can begin preparing now to apply for assistance under the federal rescue package signed last week by President Trump, but it will be about two weeks before they can turn in their paperwork. read more >
After 43 Years, RAO Video Nears 'The End'
RAO Video, a 43-year fixture on Main Street in Little Rock, is going down as one of the first and last outlets in an American industry driven and eventually killed by technology. read more >
In Coronavirus Outbreak, Arkansas Businesses Fight for Their Future
The voices of small-business owners in Arkansas betray their anxiety, even anguish approaching grief, as they fight for their future — and a future for their employees — in a world upended by a deadly pandemic. read more >
UpliftArkansas.com Launched in Bid to Help Businesses
As businesses across the state struggle to stay afloat, Mangan Holcomb Partners/Team SI and the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau have launched an online resource to provide information on Arkansas businesses, restaurants and service providers. read more >
Fed Projects Decade's Fastest-Growing Occupations
Employment in the United States is forecast to grow by 8.4 million jobs to 169.4 million jobs during the decade of 2018-28, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Or it was; the report was released months before the coronavirus pandemic caused widespread job losses. read more >
When Grieving Is Remote, and Hugs Come by Cell
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 >
Telemedicine Tipping Point Seen as Virus Alters Care
COVID-19 has turned the world upside down, but it is also ushering telemedicine into widespread acceptance in Arkansas. read more >
Yarbrough Advances at iProv (Movers & Shakers)
Darla Yarbrough of Little Rock has been promoted to vice president of client services at the digital marketing firm iProv. read more >
Arkansas PBS to Air Lessons For Pre-K Through 8th Grade
The newly rebranded Arkansas PBS, the state’s public television network, is taking a new role in teaching pre-kindergarten through 8th-grade pupils remotely while schools are ordered closed in the coronavirus pandemic. read more >
Arkansas Business Presents 2020 40 Under 40 Honorees
Arkansas Business announces the 40 honorees in this year's 40 Under 40 class, which honors people in business, nonprofits and government making a significant impact. read more >
Pulaski County's Most Expensive Home Sales of 2019
Last year, 32 luxury homes in Pulaski County sold for $1 million or more, up from 30 in 2018. read more >
Northwest Arkansas' Most Expensive Home Sales of 2019
The same Fayetteville house was the most expensive home sold in northwest Arkansas in 2019 and in 2018. read more >
The Paradox of Thrift (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
Saving money is good for the individual but bad for the overall economy because it reduces aggregate demand. read more >
News Beat Goes On, Remotely and Free, at Democrat-Gazette
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 >
Even With Name Change, Jana DeGeorge Says Simmons Bank Arena Remains the Same
Jana DeGeorge, director of marketing at Simmons Bank Arena, talks about why you're more likely to see Bono than ice hockey coming to the 18,000-seat venue. read more >
Rockefeller Institute Hires Osburn, Hopper (Movers & Shakers)
The Winthrop Rockefeller Institute in Morrilton has added two new members to its executive team. Mandy Osburn is the new chief financial officer and James Hopper is the new director of programs. read more >
Ad Agency Video Salutes Hot Springs’ Resilience in Virus Crisis
As the coronavirus upturns the tourism business, marketing agency SixtyOne Celsius of Hot Springs releases a video on the humanity and resilience of Arkansas’ top tourist destination, Hot Springs National Park. read more >
Mike Roy, KATV Stalwart for 42 Years, Dies at 63
Mike Roy, who took a technical job at KATV-TV straight out of college and never worked anywhere else, becoming one of the longest-serving directors of news production in Little Rock television history, died last week at 63. read more >
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