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Walter Hussman Jr. has announced plans to retire as publisher of the Arkansas Democratgazette by the end of the year. Hussman rose from placing comics in the Camden News for 25 cents an hour at age 10 to creating the Democratgazette, when as publisher of the Arkansas Democrat he bought the assets of the Arkansas Gazette at the end of the newspaper war in 1991. He also led the newspaper into the digital age by reserving the newspaper’s online stories for subscribers and ending the delivery of print newspapers to households, except on Sundays, in favor of a digital edition delivered to ipads that are provided for free to subscribers. Hussman said his successor would be named by the end of the year.