Final Edition: The Rocky Mountain News Closes

RockyMountainNews.com Goodbye Colorado Rocky Kept Swinging Until the End Denver Post: Rocky’s last run; Some staff will join Post Poynter: Why the Rocky Closed and What It Means Video “They quit on us.” A video on the closing, produced by the News. Related Kramer: Relaunch the new biz — learn from online news providers like [...]

Unconventional? Yes. Wisdom? Probably Not.

The aforementioned “Unconventional Wisdom” episode here. (And here.) Again, it’s myself, Zack Stovall, David Kinkade and host David Sanders talking politics, blogging and journalism. Fittingly, we’re at the end of the show, when most viewers have changed channels or fallen asleep! But hey, Kinkade for one is just happy to be there, or anywhere for [...]

Rocky Mountain News to Publish Final Edition on Friday

Just shy of its 150th anniversary, the Rocky Mountain News will publish its final edition on Friday. This, after owner E.W. Scripps failed to find a buyer. From the newspaper today: “Today the Rocky Mountain News, long the leading voice in Denver, becomes a victim of changing times in our industry and huge economic challenges,” [...]

Hungry in Little Rock? Try Soirée Recommends

It’s time for some shameless self-promotion to tell your about our continuing series of restaurant videos at ArkansasBusiness.com and LittleRockSoiree.com, Soirée Recommends. The video series is based on Soiree magazine’s monthly round-up of the best in central Arkansas restaurants, as chosen by the magazine’s editors. So far, we’ve profiled 15 excellent eateries with many more [...]

USA Today on Arkansas ‘Stable’ Economy

Arkansas gets the front-page treatment in today’s USA Today newspaper, with an article talking about how the Natural State is among the few in the country with a relatively stable economy and low metropolitan unemployment. The explanation is one we’ve heard many times before: We missed the highs of the bubble economy, so we’ve also [...]

Media Notes: DG Discontinues 401(k) Match, SF Chron on the Brink

Bad: After a round of layoffs, publisher Walter Hussman says the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette will discontinue its 401(k) match program for employees. They were able to fully fund in 2008 however.* Broken Hearts in San Francisco: Heart says it will sell or close the San Francisco Chronicle. Meanwhile, a Chronicle competitor is mum on whether he’d [...]

I Was Kidnapped by the Conservative Media Mafia

Blogging was light today in light of my abduction by a trio of mysteriously well-dressed conservative media mafia types, David Sanders, David Kinkade and Zack Stovall. Long story short: They tossed me in the trunk of Sanders’ Cadillac (yes of course he drives a Cadillac) and smuggled me onto the set of AETN’s “Unconventional Wisdom” [...]

Business Journal Spotlights 15 Young Pros

We believe the children are the future! Which is why the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal this week shines a light on 15 young professionals who are starting their careers on a fast track to success. It’s the BJ’s first-ever Fast 15 list: These 15 young professionals come from all walks, with representatives working in the [...]

Tonight: The 2008 Arkansas Business of the Year Awards

(Update: Click here to see profiles and videos of the winners!) Tonight is our annual Arkansas Business of the Year Awards, in which we honor the best of Arkansas’ businesses, nonprofits and executives. And this year’s crop should receive bonus points for to continuing to operate in such a spectacular fashion in this brutual economic [...]

UPDATED: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Lays Off ’50-60,’ 7 in Newsroom

(Updates at the end of this post.) It’s a drop in the bucket compared to what we’re seeing at other newspapers throughout the country. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt any less. ArkansasBusiness.com media writer Mark Hengel confirms that the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has let go 7 newsroom workers — 5 in Little Rock and [...]