Molding Young Minds at UALR High School Journalism Day

Much thanks to the Sonny Rhodes and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for inviting me to speak during two sessions of UALR’s annual Journalism Day event, which took place Thursday.
Andrew DeMillo of The Associated Press gave the event’s keynote address on “Why Journalism Matters,” and other session leaders included Frank Fellone of the [...]

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. Tonight’s [...]

Tune In: I’ll Be a Guest on Arkansas Sunday Edition This Weekend

UPDATE: We’re off the air. It was a fun show! Congrats to Blake on his radio debut, and my thanks for inviting me to come on. Along with RJ Hawk, Jessica Dean and David Kinkade, we talked health care, Blanche Lincoln, GOP candidates for U.S. Senate and Bob Dylan. We even got a call from [...]

Media Notes: Inside Saline Debuts; ‘FaceFriend’ Announced; Local, Local Local!

Please excuse us while we navel-gaze. The latest bits from around the media world, Arkansas and beyond:
Airheads – Blake Rutherford guests today on 103.7 The Buzz from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tune in for a taste of the his new radio show, starting this weekend.
Web Jones -  Whit Jones, the former editor of the [...]

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 [...]

Coming Soon: Think Tank Radio on 103.7 The Buzz

You’ve probably heard, but because the Internets is an echo chamber, we’ll tell you again!
Justin Acri’s gone bat-sh!t* crazy and given PR guy and blogger Blake Rutherford his own radio show. Fortunately, it’s on when no one will be listening: Sunday!
You can catch the proprietor of Blake’s Think Tank holding forth each week from 7-9 [...]

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, [...]

Update: Lottery Commission Issues Advertising RFP, Takes Action on Staff Salaries

The Arkansas Lottery Commission today took action to reign in staff salary spending, passing a motion requiring its personnel committee to approve of the hiring of any staff position that pays more than $80,000 per year.
ArkansasBusiness.com Assistant Internet Editor Mark Carter was live-tweeting for Capsearch from the meeting, and his reporting is available here. Also: [...]

KARN’s Ratings Boost, Newspapers Woes and Gene Cauley in This Week’s Arkansas Business

This week’s Arkansas Business is online now. Among the stories in the June 8 edition:
KARN’s Dave Elswick claims an Obama bump in the latest Arbitron ratings survey, with the conservative talk channel perfoming well in light of a Democratic president who lost in Arkansas.
Arkansas’ newspapers saw advertising revenue declines of between 30 and 40 [...]

Show’s Over. Thanks to Our Listeners and Tweeters!

Another disastrous not terrible radio appearance on 103.7 The Buzz. Thanks to Bill Vickery, RJ Hawk and Blake Rutherford for having us on.
For three hours we geeked out on Apple, Arkansas politics, the lottery commission, Arkansas Razorbacks baseball, celebrity gossip and more. Good times. And kudos to @DumbArkie for the cogent live-tweeting.
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