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Dallas Observer
At The Dallas News, a New "Bold Strategy": Section Editors Reporting to Sales Managers
By Robert Wilonsky in Media
Thu., Dec. 3 2009 @ 9:44AM

​After the jump, you will find a memo Dallas Morning News editor Bob Mong and senior vice president of sales Cyndy Carr sent to everyone at A.H. Belo Corp. Wednesday afternoon outlining what they call a "business/news integration." Which means? As of yesterday, some section editors at all of the company's papers, including The News, will now report directly to Carr's team of sales managers, now referred to as general managers. In short, those who sell ads for A.H. Belo's products will now dictate content within A.H. Belo's products, which is a radical departure from the way newspapers have been run since, oh, forever.

Those sections mentioned in the memo include sports, entertainment, real estate, automotive and travel, among others.The memo doesn't mention Business or Metro by name, but there are references to "health/education" and "retail/finance"; these are not defined in the missive. Says the memo, Carr's sales force will "be working closely with news leadership in product and content development." Executive sports editor Bob Yates and Lifestyles deputy managing editor Lisa Kresl are quoted in the memo enthusiastically signing off on the unconventional marriage; says Kresl, "I'm excited about the idea of working with a business partner on an arts and entertainment segment."

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It's still the Bevo Corporation.

Rupert Murdock says the era of advertising-based media is coming to an end. He is probably right. So what does Belo do? They make the salesmen the managers. You would think that as a newspaper company, they would note the many, many times putting salesmen in charge of the product has ended in disaster for companies.

Apologies to the all the salesmen ponyfans.

A good salesman would never take a pay cut to be a manager.