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For years ''The Democrat'' was considered the [[conservative]] newspaper in Little Rock in contrast to the [[liberal]] ''Gazette''. In the merger, the conservative viewpoint at first seemed to emerge triumphant in the combined ''Democrat-Gazette.''​

For years ''The Democrat'' was considered the [[conservative]] newspaper in Little Rock in contrast to the [[liberal]] ''Gazette''. In the merger, the conservative viewpoint at first seemed to emerge triumphant in the combined ''Democrat-Gazette.''​

Hussman is a former chairman of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. He was instrumental in funding the "Traveling Campus" program, which educated some seven thousand persons during 2002. Through his efforts, more than $4 million was pledged to the SNPA Foundation in 2002.<ref>Walter E. Hussman, Jr., Speech to the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, 100th anniversary edition, November 2004.</ref>  He was the first recipient of the [[Frank W. Mayborn]] award, given in honor of the late publisher of ''The Temple Daily Telegram'' in  Temple in Bell County, Texas.

Hussman is a former chairman of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. He was instrumental in funding the "Traveling Campus" program, which educated some seven thousand persons during 2002. Through his efforts, more than $4 million was pledged to the SNPA Foundation in 2002.<ref>Walter E. Hussman, Jr., Speech to the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, 100th anniversary edition, November 2004.</ref>  He was the first recipient of the [[Frank W. Mayborn]] award, given in honor of the late publisher of ''The Temple Daily Telegram'' in  Temple in Bell County, Texas.<ref>Mayborn award to WEH, Jr., accessnorthga.com, no longer on-line.</ref>

In a 2007 op-ed column in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]],'' Hussman urged newspapers to stop providing free content on-line. Too many potential readers, he said, settle for "limited" on-line coverage and never consider traditional newspaper subscriptions. Hussman called the online posting of so much of the newspaper product a "self-inflicted wound."<ref>Walter E. Hussman, Jr., "How to Sink a Newspaper," ''[[Wall Street Journal]],'' May 7, 2007.</ref>​

In a 2007 op-ed column in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]],'' Hussman urged newspapers to stop providing free content on-line. Too many potential readers, he said, settle for "limited" on-line coverage and never consider traditional newspaper subscriptions. Hussman called the online posting of so much of the newspaper product a "self-inflicted wound."<ref>Walter E. Hussman, Jr., "How to Sink a Newspaper," ''[[Wall Street Journal]],'' May 7, 2007.</ref>​