Coverage of the end of the Northwest Arkansas newspaper war in the affected newspapers didn’t advance the story much beyond stories linked here yesterday.

Among the questions virtuallly unmentioned and not yet answered: The future of the affected weekly newspapers free and paid; of redundant printing plants; redundant ad and circulation employees; redundant editorial and technical employees; related, but independent operations elsewhere (such as the significant Stephens Media bureau in Little Rock that provided beefed up state coverage to enhance the Springdale newspaper in the now-ending war); what local competitors might think about the new might of a single owner of virtually all weekly and daily newspaper publication in Washington and Benton Counties.

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On the jump, some comments from employees (none was quoted in coverage I saw) Their liveliehoods merely hang in the balance. But, hey. How important is that against concern that Warren Stephens and Walter Hussman have been losing a little money?

UPDATE: KUAR reporter Kelly MacNeil quoted on Twitter by AP reporter Jon Gambrell as saying Publisher Hussman says only the D-G, not Stephens, will cover the Razorbacks Yow. Feel redundant, anyone? Here’s her audio of Hussman interview.

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NOTES FROM ALL OVER: City Wire reports that Hussman controls majority of seats on board that will oversee new newspaper combine.  Lance Turner rounds up stuff from all over the place.

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