APA annual election results announced this week

APA membership recently approved the slate of candidates to serve on the Board of Directors.

Elected to serve as at-large board members for the first time are Andrew Bagley, co-owner and publisher of the Helena World and Monroe County Argus; Tom Byrd, publisher of the Mena Star, The De Queen Bee, The Waldron News and The Citizen in Mansfield/Greenwood and Scott Loftis, editor, publisher and majority owner of the Carroll County News in Berryville and the Eureka Springs Times-Echo

At-large board members reelected for

E&P seeking nominations of "Shooting Stars"

Editor & Publisher magazine is seeking nominations of talented photographers to feature as “Shooting Stars” in the June 2023 issue.

Do you work with an exemplary visual journalist who has the instinct to capture the essence of a story? Top-of-the-field news photographers and videographers are astute observers and the chroniclers of history who capture stories frame by frame.

Nominate your favorite photographer at editorandpublisher.com/stories/ nominations-are-open-for-epsphotojournalism-competition-shootingstars-class-of-2023,223289

All visual journalists working in print, digital or both, from any size newsroom, will be considered. Nominations close at 11 p.m. on April 28.

2023 are Jennifer Allen, owner and publisher of Hot Springs Village Voice and HSV Life magazine; Jeremy Gulban, publisher of the Marshall Mountain Wave, Pocahontas Star Herald, the Clay County Courier in Corning, the Clay County Times-Democrat in Piggott, the Villager Journal in Cherokee Village and The News in Salem; Brent A. Powers, president of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, LLC. At-large board members will start their service with the next called board meeting.

In addition, the board voted on and approved the following slate of directors to serve as officers on the 2023-2024

Executive Board: Immediate Past President Lori Freeze, news and photo editor of the Stone County Leader in Mountain View; President Eliza Gaines, publisher of the Arkansas DemocratGazette and Vice President John Robert Schirmer, editor and publisher of the Nashville News-Leader and publisher of the Murfreesboro Diamond and Glenwood Herald

Executive officers will be seated at the APA Summer Convention in Little Rock in July.

At Home in Arkansas new Media Member

APA is pleased to announce the membership of At Home in Arkansas as a Media Member.

The monthly home and lifestyle magazine was founded in February 1995. Publisher Kelly Fraiser has been a part of At Home in Arkansas since 1996, when she was hired as an account executive. After spending a year as associate publisher, she was promoted to publisher in April 2004.

In 2013, she and her husband, David, founded Root Publishing—a nod to the magazine’s local roots—and have proudly owned the company that produces At Home in Arkansas and Weddings in Arkansas ever since. Editor in Chief Stephanie Maxwell Newton joined the At Home in Arkansas team as editor in 2017.

At Home in Arkansas is published 11 times a year. The magazine’s sister publication, Weddings in Arkansas, is published twice a year. You can find each issue on newsstands at Kroger, Barnes & Noble,

Walmart and other local retailers and on the web at athomearkansas.com.

We welcome them to the association.