It Really IS The Bevo Corporation Now!

[MrMustang1965]

AUSTIN – Budding journalists at the University of Texas at Austin will learn new approaches to the old craft of storytelling, thanks in part to a $15 million gift from The Belo Foundation and philanthropists with ties to Belo Corp., the parent company of The Dallas Morning News.

UT officials and the donors said Thursday that the gift will help create a new communication building bearing the name of Col. Alfred Horatio Belo, The News' founder.

[smu diamond m]

Wah wah, who cares

[Stallion]

Bevo Ate My Baby.

[CalallenStang]

In case you didn't know, inside the Umphrey Lee Center here on the Hilltop is the Belo Journalism Complex...

[MrMustang1965]

In case you didn't know, inside the Umphrey Lee Center here on the Hilltop is the Belo Journalism Complex...

Yeah, I knew that.

I long for the days of a two-newspaper town again. The Dallas Times Herald put the DMN to shame.

[jtstang]

In case you didn't know, inside the Umphrey Lee Center here on the Hilltop is the Belo Journalism Complex...

Yeah, I knew that.

I long for the days of a two-newspaper town again. The Dallas Times Herald put the DMN to shame.

That explains why it did so well...

[MrMustang1965]

In case you didn't know, inside the Umphrey Lee Center here on the Hilltop is the Belo Journalism Complex...

Yeah, I knew that.

I long for the days of a two-newspaper town again. The Dallas Times Herald put the DMN to shame.

That explains why it did so well...

from www.wikipedia.org

The Dallas Times Herald won three Pulitzer Prizes, all for photography, and two George Polk Awards, for local and regional reporting. As an afternoon publication for most of its 103 years, its demise was hastened by the shift of newspaper reading habits to morning papers, as well as the loss of an antitrust lawsuit against crosstown rival The Dallas Morning News.

In late 1991, the "DMN" became the lone major newspaper in the Dallas market, when its rival The Dallas Times Herald was closed after several years of hard-fought circulation wars between the two papers, especially over the then-burgeoning classified advertising market. In July of 1986, the Times Herald was purchased by a fledgling newspaper empresario, the now-controversial William Dean Singleton. After 18 months of tepid efforts to turn the paper around, Singleton sold it to an associate, and on 8 December 1991, Belo Corp bought the Times Herald for $55 million, closing the paper the next day.

The fact that Singleton had begun his newspaper career at the Morning News in the 1970s fueled speculation that they had been behind the entire sale and closure of their rival paper. While the News obviously stood to benefit, no evidence was ever proffered of behavior outside the bounds of the admittedly-rough newspaper trade.

The Dallas Morning News has had an ongoing problem with its circulation numbers, being accused of inflating them to keep advertiser revenue high. In the mid-1980s, the paper was sued by the rival Times Herald, charging that the News was overstating circulation increases. In 2004, long after the Times Herald had ceased printing, The Dallas Morning News admitted it had indeed underreported circulation decreases, overstating Sunday circulation by 11.9% and daily circulation by 5.1%. The Morning News promised to pay advertisers US$23 million in restitution. The circulation problems worsened parent company Belo's financial condition and in late 2004, Belo laid off 250 workers, including 150 at the Morning News. Two years later, The News offered a voluntary severance package that more than 100 staffers took.

Some prominent former staff members from The Dallas Times Herald:

Joe Bob Briggs, syndicated film critic, writer, and actor
Molly Ivins, syndicated columnist
Jim Lehrer, author and anchor of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS who was a Times Herald reporter at the time of the Kennedy Assassination in Dallas
Skip Bayless, sports columnist, current ESPN analyst and co-host of Cold Pizza on ESPN2
Mickey Spagnola, writer for DallasCowboys.com
Lee Cullum, NPR and PBS commentator, columnist, and producer and host for KERA Television

[NavyCrimson]

After the DTH died, then, finally, they admitted it. Unbelievable!!!

No shame & no ethics!!!!

Just plain right dishonesty. But then again, it doesn't surprise me that they're shorthorn fans anyway.

[EastStang]

With the internet, most newspapers now are facing a crunch. Newsprint prices have increased and circulation has decreased. Advertising revenue is down due to lower circulation. I suspect we will see a consolidation in the newspaper business. With front sections and entertainment sections of the paper becoming more wire driven. Sports and Metro sections would be more local, thus reducing the number of reporters.

[MrMustang1965]

I recall a fellow journalism student standing up in class one day and announcing that "one day newspapers will no longer exist" and challenging the professor to debunk his statement. The professor announced that newspapers would change in format, style and content but he assured the student of one thing that would NEVER change and that was...that a newspaper would eventually print that student's obituary, whether he died the next day or 50 years later.