Arkansas Publisher Weekly: November 14, 2019

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Survey shows Americans trust local news more than national news

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Guest Column: Into the Issues by Al Cross

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Publisher Weekly

PRESS ASSOCIATION

Vol. 14 | No. 46 | Thursday, November 14, 2019

Serving Press and State Since 1873

Traveler staffers reflect on lessons learned, generosity 50 years after fire destroyed office, dark room and press There wasn’t a textbook in Hill Hall, charred or otherwise, that would have prepared student journalists at the Arkansas Traveler for their learning experience exactly 50 years ago this week.

we’re going to find places to work,’ and we did.”

Rutherford, who now serves as dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton

Fire destroyed the Traveler’s office, dark room and printing press inside Hill Hall in Fayetteville at the University of Arkansas. on Nov. 11, 1969. Even as hundreds of students gathered around Hill Hall to watch it burn — some calling the Hogs as they did so — reporters and editors got to work on the next day’s edition. “For the first 24 hours, you had to go into your reporting mode, in addition to knowing your office was going up in flames,” said James L. “Skip” Rutherford III, who was a reporter for the Traveler. “Some people on the staff were interviewing and crying at the same time. “Adversity may force you to change, but it can’t curtail your spirit. We just began saying, ‘We’re going to get through this, we’re going to keep the paper going and Continued on Page 2

Fire at Hill Hall on November 11, 1969. (Photo credit: “ A History of the Arkansas Traveler” website.)

Brinkley’s Monroe County Herald launches first website The Monroe County Herald in Brinkley has launched its first website, monroecountyherald.news, and offers online subscriptions for the first time.

The website launch is one of several improvements at the newspaper acquired in 2016 by current publisher Hayden Taylor. The publication also has a new printer and is changing subscription software. With the launch of the website, the Herald is offering new, online-only subscriptions for $25. Existing newspaper subscribers

already have access to the digital edition. New print subscriptions remain $35 annually for in-state subscribers and $60 for out-of-state. The newspaper stressed on a Facebook post that “… we hope you continue to enjoy reading the printed version of your hometown newspaper! We are not going to stop producing a printed paper!”


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