Katie Jacques has been publisher of the weekly newspaper that serves Brinkley and Monroe County for 20 years – longer than the county’s newest newspaperman has been alive.
Jacques last week sold the assets of the Central Delta Argus-Sun to Hayden Taylor, 19, whose family’s roots in the county go back five generations. Taylor is a throwback to the time decades ago when a few young men his age ventured into owning newspapers, but it was rare then and is almost unheard of now in the age of the Internet.
Following a “Man Bites Dog” theme, Taylor has never taken a single course in journalism.
He said he’s not deterred by his lack of newspaper experience or journalism study, but will buy a few textbooks to read up on the subject. “I think I’m more concerned about management and administration, how to make the bottom line work,” he said.
A 2015 graduate of Marvell Academy, he attended Williams Baptist College in Walnut Ridge for a year and never decided on a major.
“I’ve always enjoyed reading, and I’ve done well in history and politics, economics and religion,” Taylor told a visitor recently. “All those interests line up with writing.”
This guy deserves a prize .. he is trashing the social media portions of the paper..
One portion of the Arkansas Online story that most interested me: "My friends think Facebook is where they can get ‘local news’, and I just don’t believe that,“ Taylor said. "That 'news’ isn’t always news, and it’s hardly ever really local.”
In my county, coal country USA, Schuylkill County PA, social media is actually quite dominant for people getting their new
Places like SKOOKNEWS.COM and the Skook News Facebook page are very popular..
nonetheless.. I wish this guy luck .. so amazing to think that in the 21st century NEWSPAPERS could become cool again
A swarm of more than 250 small earthquakes have struck since New Year’s Eve near the California-Mexico border, causing unease among residents and attention from scientists.
The strongest earthquake in the sequence was magnitude 3.9, striking directly underneath the town of Brawley, about 170 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
After all of the joy and fun over the holiday season, my son is waking up for the second day with a fever.. a dull and persistent low grade nightmare..
There seems to be a pattern here, if It think back.. Ayden has just about touched each holiday in memory with at least one ailment of some sort. Why new New Years as well.
I hope he feels better soon.. school awaits, after all. As does 2017.
And if your child is in the same scenario, the same circumstance, I hope there is quick healing from the sick bug just as well..
“Authorities say there is no indication of that so far [that Russians had penetrated the US electric grid],” according to an editor’s note attached to a corrected version of the story on the paper’s Web site.
“The computer at Burlington Electric that was hacked was not attached to the grid,” the editor’s note read….
…so tell us again, mainstream media, about fake news?
….when your almost 6 year old son tells people “my dad is weird” while playing the online Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2 on the Playstation 4 that ‘Santa’ brought for Christmas…… That’s how.
It was a wild night of celebrations and booze-fuelled mayhem on the streets of Britain last night as revellers welcomed in 2017 - and no one was wrapping up warm.
Usually, when it comes to big blockbusters like Star Wars or Marvel movies, reshoots aren’t that big of a deal. But Rogue One seems to be another case entirely. When you watch the movie, and then go back and watch the trailer, about half the shots in the trailer didn’t make the final cut. The film obviously went through some pretty drastic changes, and the “multiple readings” that the actors did for a lot of their scenes indicate that the director was prepared for that to happen. The best explanation for it all may be the pressure of meeting a deadline: because the release dates for movies like this are announced years in advance, the schedule is fixed. Edwards and the crew had to complete and release the film by the 2016 holiday season, which meant that, if they ran into a huge problem, they only had so much time to fix it. Having multiple takes of each scene may have been their way of covering all their bases.
2016 was one extra second longer.. Countries that use Coordinated Universal Time — several West African nations, Britain, Ireland and Iceland — added the leap second during the midnight countdown to 2017 — making the year’s final minute 61 seconds long..
The new year begins with a bang! Saturday, people from Owego to Broome county in New York and all the way down to Northern Pennsylvania began reporting odd shaking and a loud “explosion” noise. Reports said they “felt their houses and windows shaking."
The Tioga County Sheriff’s Department would not say if they received any calls. They told WICZ they "have no comment or information at the moment."
An Official from the Binghamton Airport said "it is not possible for a commercial plane to move fast enough to create a sonic boom."
He added that the airport has no record of any military training going on in the area..
There was once a simpler time.. there was once a more peaceful landscape .. 2016 is ending as chaotic as it began.. The year has proposed a valuable set of dilemmas for the human population.. so many took offense to things that seemed to occur in the last 12 months of the calendar that I lost count.
But it ends tonight. And begins as well.
For as much as a new years eve ends something, the midnight hour begins anew.. It begins with a certain sense of freshness.. a great deal of zeal .. Hope and love.. Auld Lang Syne..
Plus that, occasional bad decisions thanks to a complete set of alcoholic specials at the local or fine dining watering hole of your choice. Or your demise.
So try something different this new year.. Try something special.
Make a resolution that you can keep. Keep a resolution that you made.. And don’t make too many. It puts unneeded pressure on your soul.
But in the end, when the next twelve months slip by like the sands of time, you’ll find yourself in potentially new shoes.. Or the same ones. Your situation may find itself completely unresolved. Or maybe that miracle cure is coming.
Regardless of where December 31 2017 ends for you, let it be a year of constant new beginnings. Each day should be an adventure.
Perhaps I will re-read this post a few times throughout the year. I often find myself glazing over with doldrums and life, itself, often hits like a brutal war zone battle.
I need to re-read it.. I need to live a bit different myself this year.
I need to make the type of resolution that even I could keep.
525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife. In 525,600 minutes - how do you measure a year in the life? How about love? How about love? How about love? Measure in love. Seasons of love.
