Black-Owned News Outlet Launches in Pine Bluff
The Arkansas Delta Informer's mission is to highlight economic development and cultural tourism in the region, but founders say it won't shy away from bad-news topics. read more >
The Arkansas Delta Informer's mission is to highlight economic development and cultural tourism in the region, but founders say it won't shy away from bad-news topics. read more >
Let's consider whether Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman Jr. has pulled a tree-climbing rabbit out of his hat. read more >
The paper is among many that have sought savings in a deeply besieged industry where readers, advertisers and revenue have been fleeing to the web. read more >
Edmond Freeman, a world traveler, mountain climber, naval officer and Arkansas newspaper publisher who kick-started the careers of some of the nation’s top journalists, died Monday at his Little Rock home. He was 94. read more >
Paul Greenberg died on April 6 and was remembered as a sophisticated writer and thinker. read more >
Paul Greenberg, the former Arkansas Democrat-Gazette editorial page editor who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for civil rights editorials that appeared in the Pine Bluff Commercial, dies at age 84. read more >
The perfect candidate on paper can let you down, and the riskiest hires can sometimes deliver the biggest rewards. read more >
Wehco Media boss Walter Hussman Jr. is bringing his 21st century digital revolution to his grandfather C.E. Palmer’s first paper, the Texarkana Gazette. read more >
Byron Tate has a simple reason to be back as editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial, where he has worked three times before. read more >
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman extends his new business model for newspapering to Pine Bluff, announcing that his Wehco Media Inc. of Little Rock is acquiring the once-storied Pine Bluff Commercial from Gannett. read more >
After nearly four years fighting a battle of attrition as managing editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial, John Worthen is done with what he called “the madness” of leading a skeleton crew delivering news to Jefferson County. read more >
In the run-up to a $1.4 billion merger with Gannett that would create the nation's biggest newspaper chain, GateHouse Media Inc. is closing two Arkansas papers, the Stuttgart Daily Leader and the semi-weekly Helena World. read more >
Two of the country's largest newspaper companies — GateHouse Media and Gannett Co. — have agreed to combine in the latest media deal driven by the industry's struggles with a decline in printed editions. 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 >
With the Pine Bluff Commercial consolidating its Sunday print operation into a weekend edition to be published on Saturday, the count of seven-day-a-week papers remaining in the state shrank once again. read more >
The Pine Bluff Commercial printed its final Sunday edition Jan. 6 and begins a new era of mail delivery with Tuesday's print edition. read more >
Paul Greenberg, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer, says he’s written his last lines for public consumption, after flinging his views far and wide for decades. read more >
Fresh on the heels of closing newspapers in North Little Rock and Lonoke County, GateHouse Media Group has confirmed the shutdown of its papers in Arkadelphia, Hope and Prescott. read more >
The steady drumbeat of newspaper closures continued last week, with news that GateHouse Media Inc. was shutting down its weekly papers in Pulaski and Lonoke counties. read more >
Numbers in the new Arkansas Media Directory from the Arkansas Press Association offer a wealth of detail on the state’s 82 weekly, nine semiweekly and 21 daily newspapers. But for fans of the inky publishing industry, they make for pretty grim reading. read more >
