Arkansas Gazette

When the capital was moved to Little Rock in 1821, publisher William E. Woodruff also relocated the Arkansas Gazette.

[citation needed] After the war the Gazette became the first newspaper to have telegraphic services from which they began to receive news from places like New Orleans, Louisiana, Memphis, Tennessee, and St. Louis, Missouri.

[citation needed] In 1870 the paper editorialized that, "Although we have been most shamefully and outrageously wronged, cheated, and defrauded out of our just and lawful rights, by a most notoriously partial and partisan execution of the registration and election laws, we have succeeded in electing a respectable minority to the legislature, who will act as a Spartan guard at the Thermopylae of our menaced rights and liberties, and beat back the invading tide of radicalism that threatens to overwhelm us with ruin.

After the Elaine massacre of 1919, state officials concocted an elaborate cover-up, claiming that blacks were planning an insurrection.

After 12 years of bitter competition in the morning, the Arkansas Gazette published its final edition on October 18, 1991.

[citation needed] The assets of the newspaper were sold to Walter E. Hussman Jr., owner and publisher of the competing Arkansas Democrat.

Arkansas Gazette building