As Expected, Hussman Names Daughter Eliza Gaines as D-G Publisher
The first woman to lead the newsroom, Gaines will now be the first to oversee daily operations. read more >
The first woman to lead the newsroom, Gaines will now be the first to oversee daily operations. read more >
Walter Hussman Jr., 75, is ending 48 years as publisher of the Democrat-Gazette at the end of this year, with news of his successor expected soon. read more >
Lynn Hamilton joined the Arkansas Democrat age 26 in 1974 and is retiring this month from a lifetime career at Wehco Media. read more >
Hundreds of publications distributed by PressReader were affected by the outage. read more >
If Alyson Hoge was biding her time to become managing editor of the only paper she ever worked for, she sure did a lot of biding. Forty-three years’ worth. read more >
Independent audits of newspaper circulation are, like the papers themselves, increasingly a thing of the past. read more >
He succeeds Alan Fisco, president and chief financial officer of the Seattle Times. 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 >
Wehco Media Inc. Chairman Walter Hussman Jr. listens to National Public Radio almost every day and pulls for nonprofit journalism, but the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette publisher says profit is the best motive for keeping any enterprise going. read more >
Walter Hussman knows that the days of big daily newspaper profits are gone. Now it takes continual innovation just to keep a shingle up. read more >
After 18 months of heroic measures, death came last week for Arkansas Life. read more >
The printing press will soon be getting less work at the El Dorado News-Times. read more >
Walter Hussman Jr., the Democrat-Gazette publisher and chairman of Wehco Inc., the chain that owns the paper, shared details last week after obtaining federal coronavirus relief loans through Simmons Bank of Pine Bluff. read more >
Wehco Media Inc. of Little Rock receives a federal Paycheck Protection Program loan, allowing it to stave off voluntary furloughs, salary cuts and reductions in hours, not to mention possible layoffs. read more >
The financial damage from the pandemic is amplified because ad spending tends to decrease faster than overall business spending in a recession, and job losses from COVID are unprecedented. read more >
The El Dorado News-Times has promoted Caitlan Butler to managing editor. Just eight years ago, Butler, 26, was busy graduating from El Dorado High School. 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 >
Eliza Gaines gets ready to take over for retiring Managing Editor David Bailey and seizing the reins as the paper plots a quick return to profitability. read more >
