Little Rock Newspaper
Little Rock Newspaper
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Upon Engel’s death in January 1968, his nephews, Marcus George and Stanley Berry, took over the Democrat. George was the editor and Berry the publisher. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Gazette regained its role as the state’s dominant newspaper. By the time George and Berry sold the newspaper in 1974, the Democrat was steadily losing circulation. The Gazette circulation was 118,702, compared with 62,405 for the Democrat. The Gazette also had almost three times the Democrat’s revenue. The purchase price was $3.7 million. The younger Hussman graduated from a New Jersey prep school in 1964 and the University of North Carolina in 1968 with a journalism degree. He later received a master’s in business administration from Columbia University.
Democrat ownership changed hands three times between Mitchell’s death in 1902 and the emergence of K. August Engel, who would be the driving force at the Democrat, in 1926. Engel, who had joined the Democrat as business manager in 1911, bought a controlling interest in 1926 and owned the newspaper for the next forty-two years. In 1930, Engel acquired a YMCA building at Capitol and Scott streets in downtown Little Rock and converted it into the newspaper’s headquarters. Today, though the building no longer houses the Democrat-Gazette presses, it remains the home of the newsroom and business offices. Engel, a bachelor who lived in a downtown hotel, took an active role in editing the newspaper.
Daisy Lee Gaston Bates (1914-1999) - Born in Huttig, this African-American activist is known for her role as mentor to the Little Rock Nine during the 1957 Little Rock Central High School Desegregation crisis. During this time her home, which is now designated a National Historic Landmark, became the official pick-up and drop-off site for the students trips to and from school. She continued to press for civil rights for African-Americans and later, along with her husband L.C.
First, defendants have more than adequate time to prepare for Mr. Douglas’s testimony. Mr. Douglas’s testimony is being offered for a specific, narrow purpose — to respond to defendants’ new arguments about Mr. Hussman and the Little Rock newspaper war — and will have a correspondingly limited scope. In fact, defendants no doubt have already substantially prepared for Mr. Douglas’s testimony and deposition, given that they have crafted and advanced their argument that the Democrat’s success in Little Rock three years ago, under significantly different market conditions, suggests whether Mr. Hussman might enter the market in Northwest Arkansas in the face of one owner controlling a very large percentage of the market. Thus, defendants should require no significant, additional time to prepare to depose or respond to a witness who will testify about an issue they have already formulated and articulated.
Heiskell and Executive Editor Harry S. Ashmore, led the Gazette in its Pulitzer Prize-winning defense of the rule of law during the Little Rock integration crisis of 1957. The newspaper’s editorial stand was unpopular among many Arkansans, but Patterson managed to keep the newspaper in business despite a falloff in advertising and subscriptions.
As the success of the Gazette grew, the other Little Rock newspaper, the afternoon Arkansas Democrat, was less successful. Democrat owner Walter Hussman proposed a joint operating agreement to Patterson, but he declined, knowing that in other markets afternoon newspapers in joint operating agreements had been a financial burden on the joint operations.
Even as an afternoon newspaper, the Democrat briefly overtook the morning Gazette in circulation after the 1957 desegregation of Little Rock Central High School. The Gazette won two Pulitzer Prizes in 1958—one for meritorious service and the other for executive editor Harry Ashmore’s editorial writing—but many Arkansans were outraged by the positions the newspaper took against Governor Orval Faubus and switched to the Democrat. In the first quarter of 1960, the Democrat had a daily circulation of 88,890, compared with the Gazette’s 88,152.
