Ep 303 | Aired 7/1/2022
This week on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy we tune in for a tribute to two influential voices in the history of Arkansas news and publishing, Mr. Alan Leveritt, founder of the Arkansas Times, and Ms. Olivia Farrell, former CEO of Arkansas Business Publishing Group.
Leveritt started the Times as a rebuttal to the buyout and merger of the Arkansas Gazette with the conservative afternoon newspaper, the Arkansas Democrat, thus forming what we know today as the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
Farrell, a successful businesswoman, made her fame when she donned the cover of the 1977 Arkansas Times, “Living It Up in High Style” edition with a lit joint.
Learn how Olivia went from the cover to the corporate as CEO of Arkansas Business Publishing Group. And how Alan led the Times through the dotcom boom; a deadly era for many local papers.
