CJRW: News

Emily Dean and Kinyata Gray Named to CJRW Board of Directors

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (January 15, 2026) — Darin Gray, chairman of the board at CJRW, announced today that Emily Dean and Kinyata Gray have been appointed to CJRW’s Board of Directors and will assume expanded leadership roles within the agency. Em ...

01.15.26 Read More

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CJRW announces transitional leadership changes

Jill Joslin announced today her retirement as president of CJRW.

12.12.25 Read More

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Wayne Woods: A force of nature for The Natural State

When Wayne Woods walked into a room, you knew it. His booming voice, commanding presence and undeniable passion for what he did were on full display every day at CJRW. Subtlety wasn’t in his vocabulary. Instead, his raw energy — fused with a big, ...

03.17.25 Read More

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Applications Open for 2025 CJRW Summer Internships!

Our paid internship program provides hands-on experience for students who are interested in the advertising industry. You can expect to apply your academic learning to real-world situations and cultivate your leadership, problem-solving and communic ...

12.30.24 Read More

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Creative at CJRW

If you boil it down to its essence, creativity is the act of creating – either from nothing or from raw materials. Each day on CJRW’s first floor, our band of talented creators use the digital equivalents of a canvas, brush and color palette to ...

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CJRW Now Accepting Applications for its 2024 Paid Summer Internship Program

Our paid internship program provides hands-on experience for students who are interested in the advertising industry. You can expect to apply your academic learning to real-world situations and cultivate your leadership, problem-solving and communic ...

12.27.23 Read More

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2023 CJRW Holiday Gift Guide

The holiday season is in full swing! If you are one of the millions of Americans who doesn’t start holiday shopping until December each year, CJRW — and more specifically, some of our excellent clients — have you covered. The following is our ...

12.13.23 Read More

Media Matters: Top 5 Trends in Digital Media

It would be an understatement to say that automobiles have changed since Ford first released the Model T more than a century ago. Just as a 2023 Ford F-150 shares little more than four wheels with its long-lost ancestor, today’s media environment ...

11.15.23 Read More

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2023 CJRW Summer Internship

Welcome Kynley, Zach and Jackson! Summers in Arkansas make themselves known. At CJRW in downtown Little Rock, the days get brighter, parking gets easier, and working on the patio becomes an endurance sport. But our favorite summer tradition is the C ...

06.13.23 Read More

Agency Takes 16 Telly Awards

And The Telly Goes To… More than ever, good advertising means great video. The Telly Awards celebrate the best in video advertising each year across screens and industry sectors. All the agency heavyweights are represented in this highly competiti ...

06.09.23 Read More

CJRW Wins BIG at 2023 Hermes Creative Awards

Advertising is highly competitive by nature. Most of the time, this competition happens in the marketplace. When a customer picks your brand, you win, and so on. But sometimes, we want to put the market aside and find out which agencies had the best ...

05.02.23 Read More

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Gray and Frahm take on key positions at CJRW

LITTLE ROCK, AR – Kinyata Gray and Jessica Frahm have joined the staff of CJRW. Gray will enter the newly formed role of Chief People Officer and Frahm will serve as an Account Manager for the agency’s Arkansas Tourism account. A native of Centr ...

04.14.23 Read More

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CJRW Wins Silver in 31st Annual NATJA Travel Media Awards

What do you get when you combine our more than 50 years of publications expertise with an amazing client like Arkansas Tourism? Well, for one, you get awards. Our 2022 Arkansas Travel Guide received high honors from the North American Travel Journal ...

04.11.23 Read More

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CJRW adds Vasilos to Executive Committee and Thomas to Board of Directors

LITTLE ROCK, AR (February 27, 2023) – Darin Gray, Chairman and CEO of CJRW, announced two additions to the executive leadership of the agency. Katherine Vasilos, vice president and senior account supervisor, has been named to the CJRW Executive Co ...

02.27.23 Read More

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CJRW Awarded Best Marketing Firm

Thank you, Arkansas Times readers, for voting CJRW the Best Marketing Agency of 2022! It’s been a pivotal year for us, and we appreciate the recognition for hard work done well. CJRW is an employee-owned agency. Every member of our team has skin in ...

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CJRW gives back through annual employee-directed philanthropic program

LITTLE ROCK (November 15, 2022) – For the second year, CJRW is making charitable donations to non-profit organizations throughout Arkansas as part of its CJRW Cares giving program. The employee-directed program allocates $600 for each employee to ...

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CJRW wins coveted Hermes and Telly Awards for branding campaigns

CJRW, the Little Rock-based advertising agency, has been nationally recognized by the Hermes and TellyAwards for creative work on behalf of clients.

06.15.22 Read More

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CJRW launches new employee-directed statewide philanthropic effort

LITTLE ROCK (November 9, 2021) – During the month of November, CJRW will make charitable donations to almost 50 different non-profit organizations across Arkansas through its newly-launched “CJRW Cares” giving program. This new initiative is p ...

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Best of the Best - CJRW Named Best Marketing Firm

This year, CJRW was voted “Best Marketing Firm” in Arkansas, and we couldn’t be more grateful for the honor.

08.27.21 Read More

Code Like a Girl - CJRW Hosts Kids Coding Camp

Tomorrow’s coders and developers are starting young, and what they create will determine what the future looks like.

08.16.21 Read More

CJRW wins coveted Hermes Platinum Awards for Tourism and Lottery branding campaigns

CJRW, a Little Rock-based marketing and communications firm, recently received two Hermes Platinum Awards for television ad campaigns for the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery and Arkansas Tourism.

07.23.21 Read More

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making moves – three promoted in social department

You’ve seen our cool new external updates like the logo and website, but we’ve also got some exciting internal changes. Check out our latest round of promotions and job updates: Brooke Lassiter is now social media project manager ...

06.29.21 Read More

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It's Intern Szn

It’s that time of year: a fresh batch of interns has arrived at CJRW! Our summer internship is a four-week program where students gain real agency experience by creating and implementing a full, for-real campaign. They’ll get to work alongside p ...

06.21.21 Read More

CJRW names Fisher social media director

LITTLE ROCK, AR (May 25, 2021) – CJRW President Jill Joslin today announced that Shelby Fisher has been named social media director for the Little Rock-based marketing and communications firm. Fisher, a graduate of Harding University in Searcy, jo ...

05.25.21 Read More

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Why CJRW Started Paying Employees to Travel in Arkansas

Good ideas have a way of seeming really obvious after the fact. And this idea was really good! That’s what CJRW employees said after the announcement of the company’s new Explore Arkansas initiative. Under this innovative plan, every CJRW employe ...

08.16.19 Read More

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Arkansas Business "Best Places To Work"

Last week, CJRW was named one of the state’s “Best Places to Work” by Arkansas Business. We are delighted by the honor, and we owe major thanks to the men and women who share their talent every day to make our agency what it is. We plan to ke ...

07.17.19 Read More

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Katherine Vasilos and Chris Ho Recap SXSW 2019

Just in case you missed our highlights from the biggest digital advertising conference on Earth, here's our own Katherine Vasilos and Chris Ho on Talk Business with all the details from SXSW 2019! ...

04.01.19 Read More

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Raines named to CJRW Executive Committee

Mark Raines, senior vice president of client services at CJRW, has been named to the agency’s Executive Committee. The CJRW Executive Committee manages the day-to-day operations of the agency and is comprised of representative members of the CJRW ...

02.22.19 Read More

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CJRW Appoints New Board Members

LITTLE ROCK, AR (December 14, 2018) – Darin Gray, chairman and CEO of CJRW, announced the appointments of Jennifer Morgan, Katherine Vasilos, Maxine Williams and Shanon Williams to the agency’s Board of Directors. Morgan, who joined CJRW in 2 ...

12.17.18 Read More

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CJRW @ SXSW Day 4

Inside the decadent bazaar of exclusive events, private parties and by-invitation-only demonstrations, the message behind most discussions seems to be one of inclusion. This week, we’ve heard about the value of free experiences and public events an ...

03.15.18 Read More

CJRW @ SXSW Day 3

The creative force is strong with us today in Austin. Also Mark Hamill is here. The crowd at SXSW continues to grow as the music festival draws near. Pop-up events all over downtown have been taken down and replaced with brand new pop-up events at a ...

03.12.18 Read More

CJRW @ SXSW Day 2

As a general rule, if Elon Musk is in the room, you’re in the right place. But we already knew that. It’s our second day in Austin, and some of the biggest names on (and off) the planet are on hand to share their views on the present and visions ...

03.12.18 Read More

CJRW @ SXSW Day 1

If the city wasn’t here yesterday, it would almost be believable. In the view, everything is under construction—the type you would expect to find if Earth were suddenly colonized by really posh Martians who spared no expense when it comes to firs ...

03.11.18 Read More

What the New Facebook Algorithm Means for Brands, Businesses and Advertisers

About two weeks ago something big happened at Facebook, and unless you’re a social media manager or a stockholder, you may have missed it. On January 11, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 500-word post outlining major changes ...

01.24.18 Read More

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