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 >
In addition to leading the Commercial, the Los Angeles native and former advertising director at the Las Vegas Review-Journal will oversee the Stuttgart Daily Leader, Newport Independent, Arkadelphia Siftings Herald, and several other publications. read more >
The last reporter standing at the Arkansas News Bureau, John Lyon, was laid off Friday when GateHouse Media effectively closed the operation, which was based in North Little Rock. read more >
It’s a pretty sound bet that a Las Vegas advertising executive will take over next month as publisher of the Pine Bluff Commercial. read more >
Last July, Byron Tate was reeling after his dismissal as publisher of the Pine Bluff Commercial. This July he’s rejoicing in his new role as president of the Arkansas Press Association’s board of directors. read more >
Ed Graves, hailed as the first black publisher of an Arkansas daily newspaper, is apparently leaving the Pine Bluff Commercial just shy of 12 months after taking over the paper as GateHouse Media Inc.’s group publisher overseeing more than a dozen properties. read more >
The Southwest Times Record in Fort Smith has emerged as the only GateHouse Media Inc. newspaper in Arkansas still printing seven days a week. read more >
Harry King, the veteran journalist who has covered Arkansas sports for more than 50 years, learned Friday that his three-times-a-week column for GateHouse Media has been discontinued. read more >
We’ve all seen funny and infuriating mistakes in the paper, but this month Pine Bluff Commercial Managing Editor John Worthen used one to open a dialogue with readers. read more >
Gatehouse Media has dismissed longtime Pine Bluff Commercial Editor and Publisher Byron Tate, along with Senior Group Publisher Shane Allen, based in Heber Springs. Their replacement is Ed Graves, a groundbreaking African-American. read more >
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette editorial page editor Paul Greenberg will be replaced by editorial writer David Barham, the newspaper reported. read more >
