The Dallas Morning News Plans Voluntary Severance

The Dallas Morning News Plans Voluntary Severance

DALLAS, June 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Dallas Morning News announced it is planning a voluntary severance program for newsroom employees. This program is part of the organization's on-going effort to continue to compete successfully in an increasingly Internet-centric market place. At the Newspaper Association of America's Mid-Year Media Review this month, Robert W. Decherd, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Belo Corp. (NYSE:BLC), owner of The Dallas Morning News, said, "We are launching new products, reengineering our cost structure and reallocating human, financial and capital resources to match the Company's forward strategy, while constantly looking to take costs out of our business overall. We are determined to remain the content provider of choice in our local markets and are confident that we have the assets and management talent to succeed." Jim Moroney, publisher and CEO of The Dallas Morning News said, "A voluntary severance program for Dallas Morning News newsroom employees is consistent with this strategy." Program details and timing are under consideration. The Dallas Morning News will announce program specifics when those specifics are finalized.

About The Dallas Morning News

Established in 1885, The Dallas Morning News is the nation's tenth largest newspaper and serves a readership of nearly 1.6 million. The newspaper has received eight Pulitzer Prizes since 1986, as well as numerous other industry awards recognizing the quality of its investigative and feature journalism, design and photojournalism. Its Web site, DallasNews.com, received the Scripps Howard Foundation National Award for Web Reporting in 2005. In 2003, the paper launched the leading Spanish-language daily in North Texas, Al Dia; the standard-setting free weekday paper, Quick; and the nation's first editorial blog. The Dallas Morning News is the flagship newspaper subsidiary of Belo Corp., one of the nation's largest media companies with a diversified group of market-leading television, newspaper, cable and interactive media assets. A Fortune 1000 company with 7,700 employees and more than $1.5 billion in annual revenues, Belo operates in some of America's most dynamic markets in Texas, the Northwest, the Southwest, and Rhode Island and the Mid-Atlantic.

Statements in this communication concerning a voluntary severance program and other matters that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" under applicable federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those statements. Such risks, uncertainties and factors include but are not limited to changes in advertising demand; changes in newspaper readership; newsprint prices; technological changes; development of Internet commerce; industry cycles; general economic conditions; and significant armed conflict, and other risks detailed in Belo Corp.'s other public disclosures and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Source: The Dallas Morning News

CONTACT: Amy Corenblith of Richards-Gravelle, +1-214-891-5863, or
amy_corenblith@richards.com , for The Dallas Morning News

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