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36-660: Luther Gibson founded the Vallejo Herald in 1922. Later that year, he purchased the Vallejo Times and merged the papers. He owned the paper until 1974 when he sold it to the Donrey Media Group . On June 20, 1978, 113 of the newspaper's workers went on strike. They established a rival paper, Vallejo Independent Press , directly next door. In spite of widespread support and thousands of Vallejoans canceling their Times-Herald subscriptions in favor of

72-595: A 75,000-man militia , much like Arkansas. In 1863, U.S. troops recaptured Little Rock, and the Gazette suspended publication until May 1865, while U.S. authorities used the presses for publications. During Reconstruction , a competitor arose by various names, under various editors, and with several different owners. In 1878, J.N. Smithee bought the newspaper, changed its name to the Arkansas Democrat , and went after lucrative state printing contracts held by

108-647: A California newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Donrey Media Group Stephens Media LLC was a Las Vegas , Nevada , United States, diversified media investment company. It owned stakes in the California Newspapers Partnership and the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette . The company had been expanding its interactive Internet business, operating online sites for its newspapers and portal sites like LasVegas.com, which

144-529: A newspaper won two Pulitzer Prizes within the same year. Despite its honors, the circulation of the Gazette dropped during the crisis due to boycotts, which ended when Ashmore left the paper. The Democrat charted a generally neutral editorial stand. Its photographer Will Counts took several important pictures of the crisis, including a famous photo of Elizabeth Eckford , one of the Nine, being shouted at by an angry white girl, later identified as Hazel Massery ;

180-429: A state. The Gazette scrupulously avoided political involvement or endorsement early in its history. In 1821, the territorial capital was moved to Little Rock , and Woodruff moved his Gazette along with it. The Gazette led the campaign for Arkansas statehood, accomplished in 1836, and constantly promoted new immigration. The Gazette supported Texas independence and called for volunteers from Arkansas to assist

216-712: A subsidiary of the Omaha World-Herald Company. In August, 2011, the Algona Upper Des Moines was sold to Hallmark Media. In February 2015, Stephens Media was purchased by GateHouse Media for $ 102.8 million. In December 2015, GateHouse sold the Las Vegas Review-Journal , the Stephens group's largest paper, to casino magnate Sheldon Adelson for $ 140 million. The company was called Donrey Media Group , which

252-769: Is licensed to Greenspun Media Group . The company is also a partner in the California Newspapers Partnership with MediaNews and Gannett. The company also formed Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC in November 2009, a joint venture with WEHCO Media Inc. , in Arkansas. On November 28, 2010, Stephens Media Iowa, LLC, a subsidiary of Stephens Media, acquired several newspapers, including the Ames Tribune , Boone News-Republican , Dallas County News , Nevada Journal , Ames About People & Advertiser , Tri-County Times , and Algona Upper Des Moines from Midlands Newspapers Inc.,

288-646: Is the newspaper of record in the U.S. state of Arkansas , printed in Little Rock with a northwest edition published in Lowell . It is distributed for sale in all 75 of Arkansas' counties. By virtue of one of its predecessors, the Arkansas Gazette (founded in 1819), it claims to be the oldest continuously published newspaper west of the Mississippi River . The original print shop of

324-655: The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the Chattanooga Times Free Press , signed on with the firm. MediaNews Group has also used Righthaven to file a copyright infringement suit. The aggressive enforcement of the Stephens Media copyrights by Righthaven was being closely watched by other publishers, as is the debate it has generated. Critics of the relatively new practice have coined it ' copyright trolling ', and argue that

360-674: The Arkansas Times from a magazine format to a tabloid newspaper to provide a more liberal weekly alternative to the dominant conservative paper. In the years since, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has maintained a higher circulation than newspapers in similarly sized cities. Many newspapers that defeated in-town rivals concentrated on reducing costs and reduced news coverage to meet their goals. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has continued to balance quality goals with profitability. Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Greenberg

396-478: The Las Vegas Review-Journal . The company was renamed Stephens Media Group in 2002. In June 2006, the company became known as Stephens Media LLC. The company has no connection with Stephens Media Group , a radio broadcasting company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2010, Stephens Media contracted with the litigation firm Righthaven LLC , giving it the power to enforce the company's copyrights when online violators go beyond

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432-626: The Associated Press declared it to be one of the top 100 photos of the 20th century. Counts also helped arrange the public reconciliation of Eckford and Massery in 1997. Counts' work submitted by the Arkansas Democrat for the 1958 Pulitzer Prize received the unanimous recommendation of the Pulitzer jurors for Best Spot News Photography. However, Counts was denied the award when the Pulitzer board overruled its jurors and gave

468-466: The Democrat-Gazette implemented a website paywall in 2002. The newspaper credits the strategy with helping it stem declines in circulation, where it has fared much better than the industry at large since that time. Most other newspapers that implemented paywalls later had been operating popular free-access websites for years, leading to reader backlash. The Economist noted that the strategy

504-574: The Gazette is preserved at the Historic Arkansas Museum in Little Rock. The history of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette goes back to the earliest days of territorial Arkansas . William E. Woodruff arrived at the territorial capital at Arkansas Post in late 1819 on a dugout canoe with a second-hand wooden press. He cranked out the first edition of the Arkansas Gazette on November 20, 1819, 17 years before Arkansas became

540-522: The Gazette to combine operations, but his overtures were rejected. Hussman vigorously fought back and intended to make the Democrat the state's largest newspaper. A war ensued between the two papers. The Democrat expanded its news operation, offered free classified advertisements, and switched from afternoon to morning publication. In 1979, Hussman appointed John Robert Starr to managing editor. The fiery and irascible Starr temperament and intent in

576-402: The Gazette . The Gazette and the Democrat exchanged words that soon escalated into an exchange of gunfire between the owner of the Democrat and a part-owner of the Gazette . Over the years, the Gazette and the Democrat supported opposing candidates and took opposite editorial positions. The Gazette remained the dominant state newspaper throughout the simmering battle. The Gazette

612-403: The Gazette' s 218,000 to achieve 230,000. The financial losses of the fiercely contested battle were too much for Gannett to justify. On October 18, 1991, Gannett threw in the towel and sold the Gazette to WEHCO. The first edition of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette rolled off the presses the following day, October 19. Regardless of which paper they subscribed to, most Arkansans were saddened by

648-748: The Vallejo Independent Press , the strike and new paper folded in August 1984, no longer able to compete financially. In 1999, the Times-Herald changed ownership to the MediaNews Group , who took control of the paper from Donrey. The MediaNews Group became Digital First Media in 2013. This newspaper was one of three newspapers to receive a letter from the Zodiac Killer on August 1, 1969. This article about

684-509: The Hussman family. Walter E. Hussman Jr. , 27, became the publisher. At the time of Hussman's arrival, the morning Gazette was far in front of the afternoon Democrat , with daily circulation 118,702 to the Democrat's 62,405. Hussman embarked on a campaign of significant cost reductions and concentrated subscription efforts on the Little Rock urban market. These efforts had little success. By 1977, Hussman attempted to reach an agreement with

720-772: The Texans and supported the Mexican–American War . In the 1840s, Woodruff lost control of the paper and established a competing paper, the Arkansas Democrat (unrelated to the later Democrat ). In 1855, editor Christopher C. Danley and Solon Borland took ownership of the newspaper, turning it into a mouthpiece for the Know Nothing party. The Gazette struggled through the early American Civil War , facing financial problems and shortages of supplies. The Gazette had initially been pro-United States but altered its position after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for

756-491: The U.S. Justice Department, and a new Arkansas limited liability company, Northwest Arkansas Newspaper LLC , was formed. Stephens Media sold its interest in the joint venture to WEHCO on May 5, 2016, which then assumed all control of operations of the newspapers in the joint venture. Newspapers in the joint venture include: Arkansas Iowa Nevada North Carolina Oklahoma Texas Tennessee Arkansas Democrat-Gazette The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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792-489: The United States. The Gazette responded by hiring new staff, going to a color format, and filing a federal antitrust suit against the Democrat in 1984. The lawsuit accused the Hussman enterprises of predatory practices and trying to harm the Gazette. The Democrat responded that it was only trying to gain market share to be more competitive with the larger and more dominant Arkansas Gazette. A federal jury in

828-513: The award to another entrant which portrayed a different local police force as friendly to its citizens. In 2005, the Democrat-Gazette editorial cartoonist John Deering and his wife Cathy created a bronze sculpture of the Nine, entitled Testament , on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol . Heiskell died in 1972, and his family continued to run the Gazette. In 1974, the Democrat was sold to WEHCO Media Inc., owned by

864-660: The best of their ability. Righthaven's lawsuits came under increasing judicial scrutiny, which led to Righthaven being found in June 2011 to lack standing to sue for alleged infringement of copyrighted material to which it holds only a limited license, as such a license does not confer the right to sue for infringement. Sanctions against Righthaven and its attorney, Steven A. Gibson, of Nevada law firm Dickinson Wright, are currently being contemplated by one judge. Righthaven later had its assets seized to pay judgments levied against it in lawsuits it filed against those whom it said infringed on

900-568: The bounds of fair use. More than 141 lawsuits have been filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas since mid-March. In a column published in the RJ shortly after the lawsuits began, publisher Sherman Frederick, said the primary goal with the partnership with Righthaven was to deter theft of the company's copyrighted materials. He said if the company was successful, he hoped Righthaven would find other media clients. In late August, WEHCO Media, which owns

936-485: The copyrights of clients. As a result, copyrights which had been "sold" by Stephens to Righthaven were "sold back" to Stephens for $ 80,000 to pay legal fees. In September 2009, Stephens Media and WEHCO Media Inc. , owner of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , announced plans to combine their newspaper operations in Northwest Arkansas and operate as a single company. The venture was approved in November 2009 by

972-520: The court of U.S. District Judge William R. Overton rendered its verdict on March 26, 1986. The Democrat was found not guilty of all the allegations leveled against it by the Gazette . The Heiskell family sold the Arkansas Gazette to Gannett , the nation's largest newspaper chain, on December 1, 1986. Gannett had immense assets to fight the Democrat. However, it received criticism for bringing in out-of-town reporters and staff and losing

1008-549: The editorial process. The Gazette took a strong editorial stance against Governor Orval Faubus when he tried to prevent the Little Rock Nine from integrating Little Rock Central High School in 1957. In 1958 the Gazette was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its stand; executive editor Harry Ashmore won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing . This was the first time in history that

1044-453: The paper's local feel. The Gazette , nicknamed the "Old Lady", became flashier, but critics complained that the paper had lost the respect of the readership. Over the next five years, the two newspapers dueled. The circulation of the Gazette remained steady over that period. Still, the daily circulation of the Democrat went from 81,000 to 131,000, and the Sunday circulation leaped ahead of

1080-517: The purpose of such enforcement is to make a profit. In the Poynter article, Stephens Media general counsel Mark Hinueber says the goal is to make sure the company's intellectual rights are protected. "We were seeing our entire work product in some stories just being right-clicked and cut and pasted into blogs, where people were selling Google ads around them and making money." The Las Vegas Sun has been thoroughly documenting Righthaven's activities and

1116-610: The response. The Sun ’s outside law firm, Lewis and Roca, is defending several of the Righthaven suits. Targets of the Righthaven lawsuits included bloggers, political forums, major political parties, and several of the newspaper's own sources including NORML , DailyPaul .com, InfoWars , Free Republic , and others. On August 25, 2010, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced that they will make efforts to assist Righthaven LLC defendants to

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1152-424: The sudden loss of their historic newspaper. Many of the reporters and staff of the more liberal Gazette were thrown out of work and not picked up by the more conservative Democrat-Gazette . Many former employees were bitter at Gannett for managing the newspaper war and angry at the Democrat for achieving victory. Many of the "Old Lady's" employees left for other markets while some who remained aided in converting

1188-419: The upcoming circulation war was humorously illustrated by a cover story in the monthly magazine Arkansas Times showing Starr squatting atop a Gazette newspaper box with a dagger between his teeth to show his seriousness. Starr doubled the size of the news staff and concentrated on hard news. Under Starr's direction, readership increased steadily. During 1980, the Democrat was the fastest-growing newspaper in

1224-570: Was appointed the Democrat-Gazette editorial page editor on April 29, 1992. A sixth-generation Arkansan, Griffin Smith was appointed Executive Editor on June 23, 1992. Smith retired on May 1, 2012. Managing editor David Bailey, who joined the paper in May 1993, took over leadership of the newsroom operation. Greenberg stepped down on August 1, 2015, and David Barham, who joined the paper in 2002, took over as editorial page editor. Before most other newspapers,

1260-468: Was founded by Arkansas media mogul Donald W. Reynolds and based in Fort Smith, Arkansas . After Reynolds died in 1993 at the age of 86, the company was sold to the Stephens family of Arkansas, known for their Little Rock investment banking business Stephens Inc. Some of Donrey's properties were sold off, and the company moved its headquarters to Las Vegas , Nevada , home of its largest newspaper,

1296-403: Was owned and edited by John Netherland Heiskell , who guided it with a firm hand through most of the 20th century. In 1926, August Engel acquired a significant interest in the Democrat. He became the newspaper's president and general manager, leading it through substantial growth over the next 43 years. Engel gained a reputation as a hard-working, shrewd businessman who actively participated in

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