The Dallas Morning News laid off a reported 38 employees on
Tuesday as the paper's parent company, A.H. Belo Corp., contends with a
continued decline in advertising revenues at its newspapers.
The layoffs ran the spectrum of jobs at the Morning News, including editors, reporters, photographers and designers.
James M. Moroney III, executive vice president of A. H. Belo Corp.
and publisher and CEO of the Morning News, said in
an email that the company is battling a revenue problem that plagues the
entire newspaper industry.
In his email, Moroney did not confirm how many employees were let go.
"No doubt you saw the newspaper industry's second quarter ad revenue
numbers that were released last month. They represented the 20th quarter
of consecutive down ad revenues for the newspaper industry," Moroney
said.
In the second quarter of 2011, advertising revenues for A.H. Belo
Corp.-owned newspapers including print and digital revenues, fell 9.3
percent for the Morning News, The Providence Journal, the Riverside, Calif., Press-Enterprise and the Denton Record Chronicle.
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