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Publisher Weekly
PRESS ASSOCIATION
Vol. 14 | No. 39 | Thursday, September 26, 2019
Serving Press and State Since 1873
New Helena World owners all-in for their newspaper, community
weekends are spent talking to local coaches about their Friday night football games. Davis, a retired businessman, handles the business and advertising side of the operation. The World is being printed in Monticello.
For the new owners/publishers/ editors/photographers/ advertising executives/ circulation managers/carriers of the Helena World, buying the venerable Phillips County newspaper was the easy part.
Less than a month after Chuck Davis and Andrew Bagley purchased the World from GateHouse Media, the two have yet to hire anyone at the newspaper, which GateHouse closed just days before the local men purchased it.
While they hope soon to hire full-time employees, Bagley said it was critical to the community that they publish a newspaper as soon as possible.
They published their second weekly print edition this week. Bagley said they are Crowds fill downtown Helena during the annual King Biscuit Blues Festival. continuing to search for an Chuck and I have done it ourselves with “Our philosophy was that, the longer we editor, ad salesperson and office manager outsourcing the pagination and printing.” are out of print, the harder it’s going to be that will comprise the staff. to get people to subscribe again,” Bagley Bagley, an instructor in political science said, describing Helena-West Helena as a “It has been, let’s just say, an exciting at the local community college, said he’s community with a history of being “jaded” experience,” Bagley said in an interview been working at the newspaper every and cynical about civic institutions. Tuesday. “We have no editor, we have afternoon. On Thursdays, he’s writing no ad staff and we have no clerical staff. editorials and opinion columns. The “We felt it was very important to get out Continued on Page 2
Deadline nears for Ownership Statement submissions Arkansas Press Association member newspapers who send Periodicals Class Mail must file an annual Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (PS Form 3526) with the U.S. Postal Service by Tuesday, Oct. 1. Upon filing the ownership statement with the local postmaster, publication owners are required to publish the statement according to the following timetable, depending on the frequency of publication:
• Publications issued more frequently than weekly must publish no later than Oct. 10. This applies to dailies, semiweeklies, and three-times-per-week publications. • Publications issued weekly or less frequently, but not less than monthly, must publish the statement by Oct. 31. This includes weekly newspapers. • All other publications such as quarterlies must publish in the first issue after Oct. 1.
Owners may include paid digital subscriptions as circulation in postal statements. A paid subscriber, whether digital or print, may only be counted once. Form 3526 serves as the method for the U.S. Postal Service to establish whether a publication meets standards for the periodicals mailing rates. The form is available at https://about.usps.com/forms/ ps3526.pdf