Daily Record CEO stepping down

September 5-11, 2016

Don Bona, CEO and managing owner of the Daily Record, has announced he will be stepping down from the day-to-day activities of running the 91-year old publication. His decision was based upon his desire to spend more time with family and concentrate more on health issues.

Bona served on the board of the Arkansas Press Association for a number of years, culminating in his election as president in 2011. He was also a member of the American Court and Commercial Newspaper Association and served as a board member of the organization for 8 years.  For the past 15 years, he was publisher of the Hamilton County Herald in Chattanooga, Tenn.  In this role, he served on the Government Affairs Committee of the Tennessee Press Association, where he was instrumental in the growth of the TPA public notice website.

     Before moving back to Little Rock and joining the Daily Record, 20 years ago, Bona was the general manager of the CBS affiliate KREX TV in Grand Junction, Colo. In 1994 the Colorado Broadcasters Association honored him with the Golden Nugget Award, for outstanding achievement in the profession.

He is a member of the National Newspaper Association and former member of the Downtown Little Rock Rotary Club (Club 99).

“I have the utmost confidence in our management team of Bobby Burton, Robin Hill and Jay Edwards,” Bona says, “who have worked closely with me over the past decade and who I know will continue to create the high-quality publication our subscribers have come to expect, and one that we are all proud of.”