Listen for Me Wednesday on B98.5′s Morning Rush with Jeff Matthews & Lisa Fischer

I guess no one learned from Sunday’s (unmitigated? total?) radio disaster, because we’ve been invited back on the air in Little Rock to yak about whatever. And, once again, we’ll be joined by the Think Tank. The latest venue, B98.5′s Morning Rush, with Jeff Matthews and Lisa Fischer. There’s sure to be “American Idol” chatter [...]

Arkansas Times Implements ‘Temporary Pay Reductions’

Noted here, for the record. The Little Rock alt-weekly Arkansas Times has joined a number of media companies in Arkansas making cutbacks in the face of a dire economic climate. Starting next month, pay cuts of 4 to 7 percent for some employees. Max Brantley with the news: Publisher Alan Leveritt said today he’d implemented [...]

Media Notes: Tourism Ad Spending, Yellow Kids and the Setting Sun

A weekly look around the world of mediadom: Spreading the Wealth: Arkansas Business media writer Mark Hengel takes a look at how CJRW of Little Rock is spreading around that $10 million advertising budget for the state Department of Parks & Tourism. What does he find? Arkansas Business Publishing Group is getting its share ($40k!), [...]

Arkansas Tumblrs Unite!

We’re not quite through with our Twitter obsession (yet), though some of us have moved on to other blogging platforms, some perhaps just as mystifying. So for those who like to blog, but aren’t crazy about the 140-character constraints of Twitter and aren’t into the time-consuming, myriad functionalities of something like WordPress, there’s Tumblr! Tumbl [...]

An Arkansas Twitter Follow Friday – On Monday

There’s this thing on the Twitters called “Follow Friday,” where folks make suggestions about who everyone should follow. They do this on Friday. So to be a contrarian, we’ll do make our suggestions on … Monday! Herewith, a heaping handful of Arkansas Twitterers you’ll wanna catch up with. And be sure to check out our [...]

Gwen Moritz on Women in Our 25th Anniversary Edition

Over at the day job, we noted a least one criticism leveled at our 130-page 25th Anniversary Edition of Arkansas Business: Our list of 25 business leaders for the future didn’t contain enough women. That was the opinion expressed by Ms. Adverthinker Emily Reeves here and ditto’d by others on Twitter. This week, having exchanged [...]

‘Stanford Refugees’ in This Week’s Arkansas Business

In this week’s Arkansas Business, fallout from an SEC investigation, Arkansas companies performing well in recession and the latest on a pair of key state advertising accounts: Andrew and Susan Meadors were among the so-called “Stanford refugees” whose investments with Standford Financial Group were frozen as a part of a civil case that the Securities [...]

Thanks to Our Listeners, Tweeters During ‘The Sunday Buzz’

Thanks to Blake Rutherford and Bill Vickery for having me on Vickery’s “Sunday Buzz” show today. A good time was had by all — except the listeners! Actually, we think some of you might have accidentally had some fun listening to us blather on, including A-team Tweeters @DumbArkie and @ARCCABlog, whose running commentary kept us [...]

We’re On the Air!

I’m on 103.7 The Buzz with Blake Rutherford, who’s sitting in for Bill Vickery on The Sunday Buzz. Also on the show, David Kinkade of The Arkansas Project, City Year executive director Shannon Butler, Patrick Kennedy of FRANK magazine and more. Listen live here from 9 a.m. to noon on 103.7 The Buzz. Be sure [...]

David Simon: Death of Newspapers Signals A Great Time for Corruption

David Simon, the mad genius behind HBO’s “The Wire,” is a former daily newspaper reporter with a lot to say about the state of the industry. Not long ago, he penned the essay for The Washington Post, in which he said that online citizen journalism won’t hold a candle to the kind of aggressive reporting [...]