Journalists

Charles Wilson Allbright (1929–2015)
Charles Wilson Allbright was one of the best-known and most widely read newspaper columnists in Arkansas. Allb...
Richard Allin (1930–2007)
Richard Allin was a journalist and humorist who for thirty years wrote the popular “Our Town” column for t...
James Clayton (Jim) Bailey (1932–2019)
James Clayton (Jim) Bailey, Arkansas’s most celebrated sportswriter, chronicled a century of growth in the s...
Dorothy Yarnell Barton (1900–1988)
Dorothy Yarnell Barton was a dedicated educator who taught at the secondary level and later as a professor at ...
Morgan Mercer Beatty (1902–1975)
Morgan Mercer Beatty was a native of Little Rock (Pulaski County) who launched a newspaper career at the Arkan...
Joe Bob Briggs (1953–)
Joe Bob Briggs is a Texas-based film critic, television host, and author who rose to media fame from the back ...
Pat Crow (1938–2011)
Charles Patrick (Pat) Crow was an Arkansas-born writer and editor who had an exceptional career at esteemed pu...
Charles T. Davis (1888–1945)
Charles T. Davis was the first poet laureate of Arkansas. C. T. Davis was born on March 26, 1888, at Dardanell...
Ernie Deane (1911–1991)
aka: Ernest Cecil Deane
Ernest Cecil (Ernie) Deane—journalist, teacher, historian, and fo...
Thomas Lee (Tom) Dearmore (1927–2004)
Thomas Lee Dearmore was a nationally recognized journalist and newspaper editor. A native of the Ozarks, Dearm...
George Clinton Douthit (1908–1985)
George Clinton Douthit was a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat newspaper continuously from 1945 until his dep...
Ernest Clifton (Ernie) Dumas (1937–)
Ernie Dumas was the dean of the Arkansas political press corps for most of the second half of the twentieth c...
Louis Sharpe Dunaway (1870–1959)
Sharpe Dunaway may be the most famous traveling salesman in Arkansas history, a distinction only partly due to...
Leland Blaine Duvall (1911–2006)
Leland Blaine Duvall was a writer and editor who wrote columns, editorials, and historical articles for the Ar...
Gene Foreman (1934–)
Born in a small Ohio town and reared in the rural community of Wabash in Phillips County, Gene Foreman became ...
Virginia Gardner (1904–1992)
Virginia Gardner was a journalist and left-wing activist. At one time a member of the Communist Party, she was...
Frances Marion Harrow Hanger (1856–1945)
Frances Marion Harrow Hanger was a clubwoman, civic volunteer, and writer who was central to the cultural and ...
Orville Monroe Henry Jr. (1925–2002)
Orville Monroe Henry Jr., the best-known newspaper sportswriter in Arkansas history, worked for the state’s ...
David Terry Hughes (1948–2018)
David Terry Hughes Sr. was a longtime journalist, photographer, and newspaperman from Benton (Saline County). ...
Bertha Hale King (1878–?)
aka: Bertha Hale White
Bertha Hale King was a socialist activist in the first part of the ...
Bob Lancaster (1943–)
Bob Lancaster worked at several publications as a writer and editor for nearly fifty years. His iconoclastic j...
Walter John Lemke (1891–1968)
Walter John Lemke established the department of journalism at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville ...
Pat Lynch (1950–2021)
Joseph Patrick (Pat) Lynch of Little Rock (Pulaski County) was a longtime Arkansas radio personality, newspape...
Gene Lyons (1943–)
Gene Lyons is an award-winning author, columnist, and political commentator who lives in Arkansas and wrote a ...
Deborah Myers Mathis (1953–)
Deborah Mathis is an acclaimed journalist and author who has been a reporter and columnist for newspapers and ...
Robert S. McCord (1929–2013)
Robert S. McCord was a journalist with a crusading instinct whose work as a photographer, reporter, editor, an...
Jerry Mitchell (1959–)
Jerry Mitchell was a longtime legal, courtroom, and investigative reporter. His dogged reporting led to the re...
Tom Perkins Morgan (1864–1928)
Tom Perkins Morgan’s gravestone in the Rogers Cemetery says simply, “Writer, Humorist, Philosopher.” To ...
Ray Moseley (1932–)
Ray Moseley, who was born and reared in eastern Texas, arrived in Little Rock (Pulaski County) in 1956 to writ...
Rex Nelson (1959–)
Having been a journalist, political staffer, lobbyist, and blogger, Rex Nelson is perhaps best known for his c...
Fent Noland (1810–1858)
aka: Charles Fenton Mercer (Fent) Noland
One of Arkansas’s most famous citizens during the antebellum peri...
Pauline Pfeiffer (1895–1951)
Pauline Pfeiffer was a successful journalist who wrote for such magazines as Vanity Fair and Vogue. From 1927 ...