NWA Media is combining 4 of its sports activities platforms to create the Hawgs Sports Network.

The transfer joins WholeHogSports.com, Hawgs Illustrated, the Hawgs Illustrated Sports Club and Hawgs Illustrated Gameday Extra beneath one banner, the corporate mentioned. NWA Media is owned by WEHCO Media, dad or mum firm of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

“We are proud to continue our legacy of telling the stories that are so important to our community,” Brent A. Powers, president of NWA Media, Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, LLC, and Hawgs Sports Network, mentioned in a press release. “At a time when other multimedia companies are reducing editorial staff and coverage, we are adding even more resources and ways to read, listen to and view our stories. I am so proud of the team we have assembled.”

NWA Media is a multimedia assortment of newspapers, web sites, reproduction apps and sensible TV apps in Northwest Arkansas, the River Valley and Southwest Missouri, in response to the corporate.

New employees for the Hawgs Sports Network embrace basic supervisor Chip Souza — the present sports activities editor of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Other additions embrace multimedia journalist and sports activities reporter Hank Layton and sports activities reporter Ethan Westerman. All three will start working later within the yr.

They’ll be a part of a employees together with on-line director Matt Jones; Scottie Bordelon and Andrew Joseph — each reporters; and vp of multimedia gross sales Brad Dunn. Bordelon was not too long ago voted Arkansas Sportswriter of the Year by members of the National Sports Media Association.

WholeHogSports.com is an internet site protecting the University of Arkansas Razorbacks. It contains content material produced by employees members for Hawgs Illustrated, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Hawgs Illustrated is an award-winning journal that prints 20 occasions yearly and contains in-depth protection of University of Arkansas athletics.

Hawgs Illustrated Sports Club promotes athletics for younger women and men in our native communities and was began in 2021. Published weekly through the soccer season, Hawgs Illustrated Gameday Extra is an insert to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and contains upcoming sport insights every week.