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The Log Cabin Democrat is a daily newspaper in Conway, Arkansas, United States,
serving Conway and Faulkner County and some
surrounding areas. Founded in July 1879 as The Log Cabin,
the newspaper is operated by Morris Publishing Group, which
assumed full ownership in the mid-1990s, and its publisher is Scot
A. Morrissey.
The founding publisher, Able F. Livingston, was a former Whig Party member, who used
the party's symbol — the log cabin — as the name for his new
enterprise. Ownership changed a handful of times early in the
newspaper's existence, eventually passing to the family of J.W.
Robins in 1894. The Robins family continued to be involved with the
newspaper directly for five generations. Along the way, J.W.
Underhill, a one-time owner of The Log Cabin, purchased
assets of a smaller Conway newspaper, The Democrat, which
operated from 1881 to 1885 and had been revived in 1899. Underhill
married into the Robins family, and the two papers merged as
The Log Cabin Democrat in late 1900. The daily edition of
the newspaper debuted in 1908 in conjunction with coverage of the
opening of the Arkansas Normal School, later renamed the University of Central
Arkansas.
The newspaper's main office has been on downtown Conway's Front
Street since 1980, after operating from offices on Oak Street for
80 years. In addition to its primary print edition, the newspaper
publishes several secondary products. Since its online debut in
1997, TheCabin.net has been augmented with multiple specialty
websites through Morris DigitalWorks, covering niches such as
dining, wedding planning, and local entertainment.
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