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Past, Present and Future of a Newspaper

By Kyle Kellams

Published April 11, 2022 at 1:04 PM CDT

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's history begins when a 27-year-old Walter Hussman bought a struggling afternoon paper. This week we use archives from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History to trace the past, present and possible future of the newspaper.

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