Keeping Up With News in Northeast Arkansas
If you don’t know how important a newspaper is to a community, proceed to a town that has lost one and ask around. read more >
If you don’t know how important a newspaper is to a community, proceed to a town that has lost one and ask around. read more >
The Jonesboro Sun is among the publications she'll oversee. read more >
Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Kentucky, which owns the Jonesboro Sun, the Batesville Guard, the Daily Citizen of Searcy and other Arkansas newspapers, suffered a cyber attack that potentially compromised employees’ birthdates, Social Security numbers and banking data. read more >
Associated Press correspondent and bureau chief Robert Shaw died last month in a Dallas suburb, surrounded by his family. read more >
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 >
The last non-chain family-owned daily newspaper in Arkansas, The Batesville Daily Guard, is no longer independent, bought last week by the Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Kentucky. read more >
