The Morning After: Merry Christmas, Newspaper War Is Over

A round-up of Day Two coverage of the end of the Northwest Arkansas Newspaper War, such as it was.
Michael Tilley’s City Wire has details on the board that will control Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC, saying that the Stephens Media gets 2 seats on a five seat board, which of course means, “Walter wins!” Also: The [...]

And That’s No Bull: The Return (Again) of Bullwhiz

Bullwhiz is back. Again.
The Little Rock-based gossip e-mail, which began in Internet-infancy era of the early 90s and was read and fed by journalists, PR officials, politicos and business leaders, has gone through several incarnations and curators and now has been reborn as an Arkansas news aggregator.
You can check it out at Bullwhiz.com. The site [...]

Friday Week in Review: The Week Everyone Left

It’s another Friday Week in Review! A week in which we lost so much and gained so very little.
Among those shaking the dust of this crummy little town, Nick “Zack” Stovall, the Arkansas News Bureau Web guru and Unfamous First Words blogger who hates our blue shirt, likes to scream at us on the street [...]

Arkansas Lottery Commission to Talk Advertising RFP at Meeting Today

(Update: ArkansasBusiness.com’s and Capsearch’s developing story on the meeting is available here. And we’ve added a new post here with some limited details on the RFP.)
Attention Arkansas advertising agencies: The Arkansas Lottery (Scholarship?) Commission is set to discuss its advertising RFP at its meeting, taking place at 1:30 p.m. at Arkansas State University-Beebe:
In addition to [...]

When the World Seeks Cogent Political Analysis …

… It turns to Zack Stovall.
Update: Just watched the segment. Verdict? Entertaining! Informative! Includes shout outs to Tolbert — and Twitter! Another proud moment for the Arkansas Blogosphere.
Good work, Zack. You done us all proud.
(Video available now via Stovall.)
Original post:
Arkansas News Bureau reporter and Web content editor Zack Stovall, tonight, 8:45 p.m. on MSNBC’s “Rachel [...]

More Newsroom Cuts at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

This time, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette was out first with news today of its latest round of newsroom cuts, posted on its Web site here. Others, including The Arkansas Project, Arkansas Business’ Mark Hengel, the Arkansas News Bureau and the Arkansas Times, quickly followed up.
From Hengel’s report, this from General Manager Paul Smith:
The poor economy has [...]

10 Arkansans Who Should Be Blogging

With all these Arkansas bloggers running around lately, we asked ourselves, “Who isn’t blogging?” And then we asked, “Who isn’t blogging, who should be blogging?” And below is what we came up with, a (thankfully) brief list.
But who are we missing? Tell us who in Arkansas media, business, sports, entertainment, nonprofits — whatever — you [...]

Re-Tweet: Another Round of Twitter, Blog Stories

Have you heard? Legislators and media are using a strange service called “Twitter” to send super-tiny, 140-character-long “tweets” out on the Inter-Webs. Some legislators are “addicted” to this hyper-communicative service! It’s weird!
Oh wait. You have heard this before. So why today are we hearing about it all over again from not one, not two, but [...]

Lincoln Says She Won’t Vote For Card-check in Its ‘Current Form’

The Most Important Thing Ever has just happened! Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., has told a Little Rock political group that she will oppose the Employee Free Choice Act.
ArkansasBusiness.com popped the news first (and on Twitter, of course):
Lincoln’s office said the senator will release a statement on the legislation this afternoon.
“I cannot support that bill,” Lincoln [...]

Speaking on Multimedia & Journalism at SPJ’s Region 12 Conference

If The Arkansas Project is the future of journalism, then I’d better brush up on my Paint.net skills and mastery of Google Image Search if I want to stay employed. That, and use lots of salty language!
I’m up to the task. And if you want to learn more about the future of this wretched craft, [...]