Newsmakers

Ernie Paulson, longtime KARK assistant news director, has been tapped to be the station’s next news director. Paulson will fill the shoes left behind by former boss Austin Kellerman, who took over the role of director of digital content in…

Prominent Little Rock public relations executive Ron Robinson died Tuesday, Aug. 14, at the age of 75. Robinson was the former chairman and CEO of CJRW, a Little Rock marketing and communications firm, where he started as a college intern.…

LIVSN is a new clothing company conceived here in Arkansas, with a mission to create high quality fabric via sustainable and environmentally friendly methods, for people “who value experiences, more than stuff.” The name LIVSN derives from the Swedish word,…

by Dwain Hebda John Stephens hunches over a workbench, carefully working a duck call. His production space is the central unit in a row of a tiny wooden huts behind Rich N Tone’s hulking Stuttgart manufacturing facility. Stephens, company president,…

by Dwain Hebda  When Audrey House pitched her tent – literally – on a patch of fertile Altus soil more than 20 years ago, she was more than an anomaly. The then-20 something with a passion for the grape was…

The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville is searching for patterns in U.S.-based terrorism as part of federally-funded research. The university’s Terrorism Research Center has begun the American Terrorism Study, a three-year project funded by a $716,000 National Institute of Justice…

Baptist Health hospital has appointed Mike Perkins as the new vice president and administrator for Baptist Health Medical Center-North Little Rock. He has been with Baptist Health for 27 years and presently serves as the vice president and administrator for…

Christina Munoz Madsen, the University of Central Arkansas’ associate vice president for communications, public relations and marketing, has turned in her resignation. She plans to open a communications firm, Munoz Pugh, with Michelle Pugh. Madsen will still stay part time…

Expect the Unexpected: Robert and SaraCate’s journey full of surprises by Dwain Hebda If there’s one thing Robert and SaraCate Moery’s personal and professional lives have taught them, it’s to remain open to new and unexpected possibilities. Take their relationship,…

Keeping Arkansas informed, one media outlet at a time   by Dwain Hebda If you didn’t know better, it would be easy to mistake J.R. Davis for an eager young intern in Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s office. The governor’s communications director…