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From APW and BeyondJob opportunity-KFSM sports director
In the home of the Arkansas Razorbacks, there is much more to sports coverage than college athletics. The Local Sports Director must be a storyteller who can do it all: generate daily local sports story ideas, shoot, edit, produce and report. The Sports Director is a...
Netterstrom among APME award winners
Congrats to APW Board Member Kristin Netterstrom for her third place in the APME awards for beat reporting! HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Batesville Daily Guard and The Daily Citizen of Searcy won the sweepstakes and general...
High school journalism contest winners
Rogers – The best student photographs, news articles and page designs from 10 Arkansas high school newspapers earned students from across the state awards Friday as part of Arkansas Press Women’s annual high school journalism competition.The competition, which is open...
Job opening- University of Arkansas student media
Advertising Manager Student Media University of Arkansas Student Media seeks an energetic, positive sales professional with a proven track record to lead our student sales team in all aspects of advertising sales and underwriting efforts on behalf of Student Media at...
Betty Magie, rest in peace
We're sad to report that longtime APW member Betty Magie has died at age 84. Read about Betty's career here: http://arkansasleader.blogspot.com/2012/03/editorial-betty-magie-rip.html
Newswriting basics apply on both sides of the newsroom wall
Imagine how you'd feel reading an 800-word press release that doesn't even bother to give the company's location? Gwen Moritz at Arkansas Business writes about it here: www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=130695.54928.142833&cID=e A good reminder that...
Temporary job opening
Newspaper layout/production: Emily Roberts at Arkansas Catholic is looking for a newspaper layout person who could fill in on a future short-term temporary basis in the Little Rock office if needed. Requires solid skills in InDesign and Photoshop on the Mac,...
47th and dropping
Thanks to Ashli Ahrens for suggesting this piece for posting. It's the Reporters Without Borders' Press Freedom Index 2011-2012. The organization's rankings may surprise you. http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2011-2012,1043.html.
Job openings
A couple of postings from Arkansas Business Publishing Group. Social media director: http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/aj_profile.asp?jID=5730 Multimedia journalist: http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/aj_profile.asp?jID=5729 And one for 1011 Web Solultions' SEO/Social...
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