| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Paxton Media Group |
| Publisher | David Meadows |
| Founded | July 1879 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 1025 Front Street. Conway,AR 72032 United States |
| Website | thecabin |
TheLog Cabin Democrat is a dailynewspaper inConway, Arkansas, United States, serving Conway andFaulkner County and some surrounding areas. It was founded in July 1879 asThe Log Cabin. Its publisher is David Meadows, who also serves as the publisher ofThe Courier inRussellville.[1]
The founding publisher, Able F. Livingston, was a formerWhig Party member, who used the party's symbol — the log cabin — as the name for his new enterprise. Ownership changed a handful of times early in the newspaper's existence, eventually passing to the family of J.W. Robins in 1894. The Robins family continued to be involved with the newspaper directly for five generations. Along the way, J.W. Underhill, a one-time owner ofThe Log Cabin, purchased assets of a smaller Conway newspaper,The Democrat, which operated from 1881 to 1885 and had been revived in 1899. Underhill married into the Robins family, and the two papers merged asThe Log Cabin Democrat in late 1900. The daily edition of the newspaper debuted in 1908 in conjunction with coverage of the opening of the Arkansas Normal School, later renamed theUniversity of Central Arkansas.
The newspaper's main office has been on downtown Conway's Front Street since 1980, after operating from offices on Oak Street for 80 years. In addition to its primary print edition, the newspaper publishes several secondary products. Since its online debut in 1997, TheCabin.net has been augmented with multiple specialty websites through Morris DigitalWorks, covering niches such as dining, wedding planning, and local entertainment.
The newspaper was operated byMorris Publishing Group which assumed full ownership in the mid-1990s.[2] In 2017, Morris sold its newspapers toGateHouse Media.[3] By June 2019, the newspaper changed hands again, toPaducah, Kentucky-basedPaxton Media Group, as part of a four-publication acquisition in the state.
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