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01-22-10, 01:25 PM
Rick Fahr, who has been serving as acting publisher of the Log Cabin Democrat in Conway for the past year, is the new publisher, according to a statement by William S. Morris IV, president of Morris Communications, which owns the newspaper. Fahr succeeds Scot Morrissey who left to become publisher of another Morris Communications newspaper in Georgia.
Fahr, 39, is a native of Weiner. He joined the Log Cabin Democrat in 2008 as editor. A graduate of Lyon College in Batesville, he was the editor of the The Courier in Russellville and The Sun in Jonesboro before moving to Conway.
As a sergeant in the Arkansas Army National Guard, he served active-duty tours at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and in Iraq. He is currently vice president of the Arkansas Associated Press Managing Editors (APME).
Fahr, 39, is a native of Weiner. He joined the Log Cabin Democrat in 2008 as editor. A graduate of Lyon College in Batesville, he was the editor of the The Courier in Russellville and The Sun in Jonesboro before moving to Conway.
As a sergeant in the Arkansas Army National Guard, he served active-duty tours at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and in Iraq. He is currently vice president of the Arkansas Associated Press Managing Editors (APME).