The newspaper’s editorials won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 with Paul Greenberg as its editorial page editor.Īll Pine Bluff subscribers will receive a letter explaining the conversion to the digital replica, including one-on-one, in-person training with each subscriber along with the free use of an iPad to receive the digital replica every day. In addition, the Pine Bluff Commercial will have an editorial page.
He will lead a local staff of reporters covering Pine Bluff news, including city council, school board, quorum court and other meetings as well as other local news of general interest. As an example, if a Pine Bluff Commercial subscriber has a subscription prepaid until the end of the year, the subscriber will continue to receive the Pine Bluff Commercial’s digital replica pages and a Sunday print edition until the subscription expires.īyron Tate, previously editor and publisher of the Pine Bluff Commercial, will return as editor of the newspaper. The company will also receive all pre-paid subscriptions and honor those subscriptions until expiration. Under terms of the agreement, a new company, Pine Bluff Commercial, Inc., is being established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of WEHCO Newspapers, Inc., and it will pay for and collect all the existing advertising accounts receivable. The Commercial will therefore be available seven days a week in a digital replica format and one day a week in print on Sundays. It will also be included in the print edition delivered to subscribers of the Pine Bluff Commercial on Sundays. The Pine Bluff Commercial will be included in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Arkansas section in its digital replica edition every day. We were honored to serve the readers and advertisers in the Pine Bluff market,” said Jay Fogarty, Gannett's senior vice president of corporate development. “We are pleased that the Pine Bluff Commercial, a newspaper with a great legacy and tradition, has found a new home with WEHCO and potentially a sustainable business model for many years to come. The newspaper had been printed and mailed five days a week, Tuesday through Saturday.ĭirks, Van Essen & April, a media merger and acquisition firm based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, represented Gannett in the transaction. Gannett has sold the Pine Bluff Commercial to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and its parent company, WEHCO Newspapers, Inc. The Pine Bluff (Arkansas) Commercial has returned to seven-day-a-week publishing as part of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette digital replica edition.
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