Arkansas Filmmaker Killed in Ukraine Recalled as Fearless, Thoughtful
"At the first sign of something dangerous or unknown, he’s compelled to tell the story," a friend said of Brent Renaud. read more >
"At the first sign of something dangerous or unknown, he’s compelled to tell the story," a friend said of Brent Renaud. read more >
Events that drove intense interest and engagement in 2020 led to an inevitable news hangover in 2021. read more >
A Black journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize says she will not join the University of North Carolina following an extended tenure fight that involved Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman. read more >
Walter Hussman Jr., generally thoughtful and shrewd, is taking a public blistering over emails he thought were private. read more >
An Arkansas lawmaker was censured for calling a colleague a “dumbass" during debate Tuesday over a nonbinding resolution on history that was overwhelmingly rejected. read more >
An Arkansas House panel rejects legislation that would have banned schools from teaching a New York Times project on slavery's legacy, one of several attempts in Republican states to limit how race is taught. read more >
Yes, Tom Cotton owned the liberals at The New York Times. read more >
Freshman Sen. Tom Cotton has risen to the ranks of potential 2024 Republican presidential contenders by making all the right enemies. By lining up behind President Donald Trump’s law-and-order recipe for controlling civic unrest, he’s making even more. read more >
Saving money is good for the individual but bad for the overall economy because it reduces aggregate demand. read more >
The techniques used to commit journalism are always going to be fascinating to me, but the contrast between the New York Times and NBC was disturbing. read more >
Overestimating one’s own competence is not really the news here. What's new is the consistency with which other people — complete strangers, even — interpret confidence as competence. read more >
The vast majority of daily local newspapers are cash-starved — the first industry to starve to death when consumer demand for its product is at an all-time high. read more >
It turns out that more careful prescribing guidelines don’t fix pre-existing dependency, and illegal replacements are even more deadly. read more >
Questions, thorny and serious, were fodder for fun and discussion for the Arkansas Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, who put their ethics to the test — along with their acting – in an exercise called What Would You Run? read more >
A renovated house in Little Rock’s Heights neighborhood was scheduled to be part of the “What You Get” feature in the real estate section of Sunday’s New York Times. read more >
Roy Reed, the former Arkansas Gazette reporter and New York Times correspondent who died last month at age 87, is remembered by Ernest Dumas, his heir as Arkansas’ senior reporter. read more >
In Arkansas, journalists and media educators weigh in on a new media world following the election of Donald Trump as president. read more >
A recent New York Times article pointed out something that had also been nagging at us here at Arkansas Business: otherwise law-abiding citizens being charged and convicted of a federal felony known as structuring. read more >
Arkansas, through sheer political will that strikes me as more miraculous every day, bucked the trend of conservative states turning away federal dollars to fund health insurance for the working poor. read more >
Print publications that traditionally relied on advertising for the bulk of their revenue have watched that money stream slowly dry up even as the demand for news — more often and in more formats — has grown. Newspapers are now asking, “Who will pay the cost of news if advertisers won’t?” read more >
