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Frank Robins III, Former Owner and Publisher of the Log Cabin Democrat

Frank Robins III, the former publisher of the Log Cabin Democrat, died on Saturday at the age of 80. You can read his obituary on the Web site of the newspaper he once owned here. The newspaper’s article on Robins appears here. Robins was my wife Laura’s uncle. I didn’t get to spend much time [...]

Alltel — er, Verizon Arena, 10 Years Later, In This Week’s Arkansas Business

This week’s Arkansas Business is online now. Among the highlights: Alltel Arena Verizon Arena marks its 10th anniversary next month and everyone from its general manager to those who helped build it consider it an unqualified success. What began with talk of cracked raker beams and postponed events and become an all-purpose facility operating happily [...]

LT, On Your TV and Radio Dials This Weekend

No rest for the narcissistic! Not content with the Internet, we’re also on the airwaves this weekend, aiming for Paris Hilton levels of overexposure. To wit: Arkansas Week, 8:30 p.m. Friday, AETN – Catch myself, host Steve Barnes and Hoyt Purvis of the University of Arkansas as we tag-n-bag the week in business and politics. [...]

Friday Week in Review: Pouring One Out for Teddy K.

And there you have it. Another week in the can, another Kennedy cast off this mortal coil. Other stuff happened too, and there were blogs that wrote about it. Let us reminisce … Walter Hussman spread the gospel of No Free Meal on the Internets. Blake Rutherford remembered Ted Kennedy (how could anyone forget?) and [...]

Are You Ready for Football? The Arkansas High School Kickoff Classic Begins Monday

We don’t usually get too involved in sports on the blog — except when it helps pay the bills! To that end, we’d like to call your attention to an event our employer is putting on, with the help of our friends at 103.7 The Buzz: It’s ArkansasSports360.com‘s first annual Arkansas High School Football Classic, [...]

Tonight: A Cajun’s-style #LRTweetup

UPDATED: We had another great turnout! @KatieMcManners posts a photo of one group of us here. Plus: The Twestival announced, see more here. Tonight: The Fourth #LRTweetup at Cajun’s in Little Rock, underway at 5:30 p.m. Come socialize (in person!) with local Tweeters on the bank of the Arkansas River. RSVP here (lots of you [...]

The Guardian UK, Walter Hussman Talk Online News Over Whole Hog in Little Rock

Walter Hussman, everyone’s favorite newspaper publisher bravely charging for online news and somehow “making it work,” is back in the headlines, entertaining a Guardian UK writer at Whole Hog Cafe and talking about how print/Internet strategy is working. As we’ve noted before, “preserve the print edition” has been the goal. The reporter on the story [...]

The FTC to Hold Hold Workshops on Journalism in the Internet Age

First, there was John Kerry’s Congressional subcommittee hearing on “the Future of Journalism.” And now, the Federal Trade Commission is set to hold two days of workshops in December on journalism and its survival in the Internet age: Though some may be uncomfortable with government oversight of any aspect of journalism, the F.T.C. seems to [...]

New CEO at PAM and Testing the Pay Model in Pine Bluff in This Week’s Arkansas Business

It’s Monday already. And that means a new edition of Arkansas Business newspaper, available now. Among the highlights: Stephens Media will test a locked down model for online news with its Pine Bluff Commercial, Stephens President Sherman Frederick says. He says ArkansasNews.com, which aggregates news from the Stephens papers in Arkansas, might also go behind [...]