Courtney Pledger Commits Herself To Arkansas, and Awaits Her Raise
Despite being wooed for other positions, Pledger, executive director and CEO of Arkansas PBS, has transformed the public media station in her five-year tenure. read more >
Despite being wooed for other positions, Pledger, executive director and CEO of Arkansas PBS, has transformed the public media station in her five-year tenure. read more >
The court found that the restriction is not an unconstitutional violation of free speech. read more >
Meanwhile, the Arkansas Times has announced two new hires, including veteran reporter Debra Hale-Shelton. read more >
Age and ailments have caught up with the owners. But the 136-year-old Warren Eagle Democrat could go on without them. read more >
He was known as a skilled and empathetic journalist with a sharp memory and fun-loving disposition. read more >
Arkansas Times Publisher Alan Leveritt is challenging a state ultimatum to either sign a pledge agreeing not to boycott Israel or pay a price in state contracts. read more >
An intellectual property attorney notes a rise of copyright infringement lawsuits, which can be costly to companies. read more >
A federal appeals court says it will reconsider a panel's decision that Arkansas’ law requiring state contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel is unconstitutional. read more >
A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that Arkansas' law requiring state contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel is unconstitutional. read more >
Arkansas officials confirmed last week that the state filed an insurance claim in a May 15 website security lapse that exposed sensitive data on 30,000 Arkansans seeking pandemic unemployment benefits. read more >
Gov. Hutchinson puzzled techies and Luddites alike by making a federal case out of what seemed to be a good Samaritan’s report that the Arkansas Pandemic Unemployment Assistance website was inadvertently revealing applicants’ Social Security and banking numbers. read more >
Lindsey Millar, the editor of the Arkansas Times, is reviving his semi-outside project, the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network, with a coronavirus-age fervor. read more >
The Economic Development Incentive Quick Action Closing Fund disbursed almost $134.8 million between October 2007 and June 2019, state figures show. With such money being spent, we should ask if this program is worth its cost. read more >
Cutbacks at American dailies have been coming, well, daily, and Democrat-Gazette President and General Manager Lynn Hamilton put out a call last Monday for all employees to consider voluntary furloughs or perhaps working four rather than five days a week, at commensurate pay. read more >
As other Arkansas daily newspapers bleed staff and cut back printing, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has given employees a dilemma: Accept a work furlough now to cut the odds of being laid off later. read more >
Four years into Eliza Borné's editorship, Oxford American is launching a new look with next month’s fall edition, debuting a promising podcast and enjoying better financial health. read more >
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 >
Soon, readers won't get a newspaper outside central Arkansas and the northwest. Operations will be mostly digital, and a Sunday-only print edition is conceivable, Publisher Walter Hussman says. read more >
Sunshine Week, the annual celebration of the public’s access to public information, is March 10-16 this year, so the timing of a bill by state Sen. Kim Hammer, R-Benton, is fitting. 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 >
