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'''Walter E. Hussman, Jr.''' is president and chief executive officer of WEHCO Media in Little Rock, Arkansas. The company is owner of the ''[[Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]],'' ''Northwest Arkansas Times'', and ''Benton County Daily Record'' newspapers.
 
'''Walter E. Hussman, Jr.''' is president and chief executive officer of WEHCO Media in Little Rock, Arkansas. The company is owner of the ''[[Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]],'' ''Northwest Arkansas Times'', and ''Benton County Daily Record'' newspapers.
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In 1978 Hussman's ''Democrat'' sold only half as many papers as its rival, the ''Arkansas Gazette''. On October 18, 1991, Hussman purchased the ''Gazette'' from the Gannett Corporation for $69.3 million. The next day the papers merged as the ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette''.
  
 
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Outlasting the Gannett-owned Arkansas Gazette in a fierce daily newspaper war that ended in 1991, Walter Hussman's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette still stands as the state's dominant daily. Wehco, which in 2005 purchased the Northwest Arkansas Times, Benton County Daily Record and eight weeklies from the Walton-owned Community Publishers Inc., is now battling with Stephens Media Group to control newsprint in northwest Arkansas and fend off the company's growing presence in central Arkansas.
 

Latest revision as of 01:23, 27 April 2008

Walter E. Hussman, Jr. is president and chief executive officer of WEHCO Media in Little Rock, Arkansas. The company is owner of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Northwest Arkansas Times, and Benton County Daily Record newspapers.

In 1978 Hussman's Democrat sold only half as many papers as its rival, the Arkansas Gazette. On October 18, 1991, Hussman purchased the Gazette from the Gannett Corporation for $69.3 million. The next day the papers merged as the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

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