Another Look at Health Care and the Lottery in Arkansas in This Week’s Arkansas Business

This week’s Arkansas Business is out and live on the Web. Among this week’s stories:
Editor Gwen Moritz has been reading the blogs, and this week she offers another view of health care after reading Cory Allen Cox’s essay on his late sister’s experience with the system over at The Arkansas Project.
Jamie Walden takes a look [...]

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Previously
Lock Down: The Democrat-Gazette Takes Free News Off the Web in Northwest Arkansas
Will the Morning News Put Up A Pay Wall?
The ‘Patron Saint of the Pay Wall
Related
Editor & Publisher’s Fitz & Jen blog links to Arkansas Business media writer Mark Hengel’s report this week on where all those Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reporters are going.

The Latest Inc. Tanc Survey, Heifer International’s Future & More in This Week’s Arkansas Business

It’s Monday and time to check out the latest edition of Arkansas Business, available now. Among the highlights:
Arkansas Business and Mangan Holcomb Partners continue their Inc. Tanc series of surveys, polling more than 800 local business leaders and finding, among other things, that

more than half have not or do not expect to benefit from the [...]

Ernie Passailaigue’s South Carolina Days, the ‘Moritz Scale’ and More in This Week’s Arkansas Business

It’s Monday. On the bright side, there’s the new Arkansas Business. In this week’s edition:
Mark Hengel investigates Ernie Passailaigue’s time as head of the South Carolina. Let’s see: There was an FOI lawsuit, a conflict over a $7.5 million advertising contract, and allegations that Passailaigue, a former South Carolina state senator, benefited from cronyism. Otherwise, [...]

Walter Hussman Visits the For-sale Austin American-Statesman Newspaper

Arkansas Business media writer Mark Hengel stumbles upon this from the Cox Enterprises-owned Austin American-Statesman newspaper, which says new investors have come forward to explore buying the paper. Among them, the paper says, is Arkansas Democrat-Gazette owner Walter Hussman:
Austin investor Brian Ferguson , Waco businessman Clifton Robinson and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman Jr. toured [...]

Will The Morning News Put Up A Pay Wall?

Arkansas Business media writer Mark Hengel talks to Arkansas Democrat-Gazette General Manager Paul Smith about the daily newspaper’s decision last week to lock down newspaper content on its northwest Arkansas Web site, NWANews.com.
But what about Stephens Media-owned rival The Morning News? Will its open-access NWAOnline.net have a competitive advantage, or does the DG’s decision allow [...]

Salary Cuts at Gannett Hit KTHV

Ugh. It’s another challenging day for Gannett Co.-owned CBS affiliate KTHV-TV, Channel 11.
Arkansas Business’ Mark Hengel has the local angle on Gannett’s latest cost-cutting measures, which you might have noted brewing for several days now on the Gannett Blog:
The company that owns Little Rock’s CBS affiliate is imposing permanent wage cuts of up to 6 [...]

40 Under 40 and the Democrat-Gazette’s Online Strategy in This Week’s Arkansas Business

This week’s Arkansas Business is online now. Click here to see the full edition. Among the highlights:
It’s that time of year again! Arkansas Business unveils its latest class of 40 Under 40 honorees. Click here to see the list and all those profiles. Click here for an introduction from Editor Gwen Moritz.
Also: Are you past/present [...]

Kris Allen, Affiliated Foods & the John Glasgow Reward in This Week’s Arkansas Business

Lots happening in this week’s Arkansas Business, online now. And yes, that’s Kris Allen on the cover. Highlight’s from this week’s edition:
A Sort of Homecoming – Kris Allen vies for the title of American Idol this week. Win or lose, how will his life change after the results are in? Mark Hengel talks to agents, [...]

Sitting Down with Maria Haley in This Week’s Arkansas Business

This week’s Arkansas Business newspaper is online and available now. Some highlights from this week’s edition:
Mark Hengel talks to Arkansas Economic Development Commission Director Maria Haley about the AEDC’s “client focused” strategy in developing business in Arkansas.
Mark Friedman looks at Arkansas’ growing wind energy industry and its prospects for the future.
Our annual list of the [...]