Tag: Media & Marketing

The Simple Lie (Commentary)

The first commercial I saw about the Fox Television show filmed in Altus featured Paris Hilton pretending she had never heard of Wal-Mart.rn?What do they sell there, things for your walls?? asked the Hilton hotel heiress.

Hospitality Guide Becomes Passport XNA

Tracey Trout published two issues of the Ozark Hospitality Guide in 2003 before changing the name to Passport XNA and adopting a slick, full-color magazine format in January.

CPI Sells Times Press to Inland

Community Publishers Inc. of Bentonville sold an eight-unit Goss Urbanite press in January to Inland Newspaper Machinery Corp. of Lexena, Kan.

CJRW Changes Name in Northwest

Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods has changed the name of its Northwest Arkansas office.

Mooty Named Huntsville Editor

Kyle Mooty, former editor of Celebrate Northwest Arkansas, began work on Jan.

Morning News Dips Daily, Recovers on Sundays

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette had an increase of 2.5 percent in total paid daily circulation in Northwest Arkansas for the six months ended Sept. 30, while The Morning News had a slight decrease in weekday circulation of 1.4 percent.

Poetry Good for General Assembly (Opinion)

Members of the Arkansas General Assembly should take heed in the lighthearted retelling of the ?Night Before Christmas? that ran in Brenda Blagg?s column in The Morning News on Christmas Eve.

Times Gives City All the Credit (Opinion)

The Northwest Arkansas Times listed the Milken Institute?s rating of the ?Fayetteville Metropolitan Statistical Area? as No. 10 in a list of Top 10 local stories in 2003 but gave the city nearly all the credit.

School Debate Hijacks Holidays (Jeff Hankins Publisher?s Note)

A special session of the Arkansas General Assembly gives us something festive to talk about during this holiday season.

Hoya?s COO Starts Local Project Englebrecht ?Thumper-dink?

Roy Englebrecht is a minority owner and chief operating officer of Oscar De La Hoya?s Golden Boy Promotions.

Sheffield Resigns As D-G Business Editor

Chris Sheffield resigned the week of Dec. 8 from his job as business editor for the Northwest Arkansas edition of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Times Names New Editors

On Dec. 7, the Northwest Arkansas Times named Scott Shackelford of Springdale editorial page editor.

KHOG Stretches Wal-Mart Janitor Bust Into ?Crime Beat? Story (Opinion)

KHBS/KHOG, Channels 40/29, led its ?Crime Beat? section for several nights in mid-December with a story about the grand jury investigation into Wal-Mart Stores Inc. employing illegal aliens as janitors.

Morning News: Saddam Captured!!!! (Opinion)

The capture of Saddam Hussein screamed for a gigantic two-word, front-page headline ? something like the ?Saddam Captured? that the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette used on Dec. 15.

D-G Issues Monumental BCS Butt Kickin? (Opinion)

There was no comparison Dec. 8 between the sports section front pages in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette?s locally zoned edition and The Morning News in Springdale.