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Podcast: Up in Your Business with Kerry McCoy
Episode: Reprise | Alan Leveritt, Publisher of the Arkansas Times
Description: Ep 194 | Aired 5/27/2020
Today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy, you’ll hear one of my early interviews with newspaper man, entrepreneur and second generation farmer, Mr. Alan Leveritt.
In this interview, Alan tells the story of how, in 1974, with only a few friends, he launched the Arkansas Times; a grass roots, alternative monthly magazine about political and cultural news in Arkansas.
Alan reminisces about a time when newspapers ruled and recounts stories that are now Arkansas folklore. It is hard to believe, but many people living in Arkansas today don’t know that there was once a nationally publ...