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Podcast: Up in Your Business with Kerry McCoy
Episode: Ernie Dumas, Legendary Local Journalist, Author, and Orator
Description: Ep 169 | Aired 12/4/2019
Ernie Dumas, 82, is one of the state's most highly regarded journalists. He spent more than 30 years with the Arkansas Gazette, primarily as a political and state government reporter. He was also an associate editor, an editorial writer and a columnist until the newspaper folded in 1991. Since then, he has continued to write for several publications, including the Arkansas Times.
His recent book -- The Education of Ernie Dumas: Chronicles of the Arkansas Political Mind -- covers the post-World War II era of Arkansas, from the election of Gov. Orval Faubus, who resisted school desegregation, to the election of...