Subject: Jim Moroney

• You Know What They Say About Small Packages

  September 29, 2006

• When Bad News is Good News!

  September 14, 2006

• The 411 on The 111

  September 14, 2006

• The Line Out the Door

  August 25, 2006

• At The DMN, A Last Supper (Brown Bag Lunch, Actually)

  August 23, 2006

• "Not For Everyone"? Sure Sounds Like It

  August 10, 2006

• Note to DMN'ers: Keep Waiting.

  July 20, 2006

• Mayor Miller Demands Recount

  May 8, 2006

• Decherd: News to Remain "Essential to the Local News and Information Needs."

  July 29, 2008

• To Be Honest, DISD Board Prez Jack Lowe Doesn't Care What You Think

  Last month, while working on this profile of Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, I met DISD board of trustees president Jack Lowe for coffee at the La Madeline by SMU. Lowe, as you may recall, said upon the revelation of the district's initial $64-million budget shortfall in September that he was, ya know, "very embarrassed." But two months later, Lowe, who is pictured at right, orchestrated the vote to suspend next year's elections and keep his pro-Hinojosa bloc

  December 15, 2008

• Is Your News Worth a Dollar a Day?

  A.H. Belo hopes you think so, because The Dallas Morning News just posted the following notice: Starting Feb. 9, The Dallas Morning News will increase the newsstand price of its Monday-through-Saturday newspapers to one dollar from the current level of 75 cents. The News attributed the price hike to continued increases in the cost of newsprint and other economic factors. It was but eight months ago that A.H. Belo hiked the newsstand price from 50 cents to 75 cents. Perha

  January 9, 2009

• This Morning, A.H. Belo Corp. Announces Loss of 14 Percent in Total Revenue in 2008

  In the wake of A.H. Belo's recent announcement that it's laying off yet another 500 employees -- no later than March 28 -- the question is: How much money did The Dallas Morning News's parent company make in 2008, the first year it operated as a spin-off of Belo Corp.? The answer, revealed in this morning's press release: $637.3 million, which the company reports is a 14-percent drop from 2007 revenue. The reason:Advertising revenue, including print and Internet revenue, decreased 19 percent, dr

  February 17, 2009

• As WFAA-Channel 8 Adds Third Morning Anchor, Belo Announces 150 Layoffs

  On Monday, Ed Bark noted that WFAA-Channel 8 has hired Kristin Mitchell as a co-host on Good Morning Texas -- making that show a threesome now, as the former St. Louis anchor joins a set already populated by Gary Cogill and Amy Vanderoef. A Friend of Unfair Park is not impressed with Belo Corp.'s timing: Late yesterday, WFAA's parent company announced that by the middle of next month, it will lay off 150 employees throughout its 20-station TV group, which also includes the St. Loui

  March 11, 2009

• Love for Sale

  March 13, 2003

• Don't Let the Door Hitcha

  July 17, 2003

• Queer Means "Odd"

  August 7, 2003

• So Sorry

  DMN publisher to staff: "My bad."

  August 14, 2003

• At The News Today, "D Day"

  This morning, A.H. Belo Corporation announced that layoffs at The Dallas Morning News will begin promptly, with "the majority of the actions [taking place] today and tomorrow." By the time the company's done with its so-called "cost-cutting measures," it will have eliminated 14 percent of its total workforce, as A.H. Belo CEO Robert Decherd said at the end of January. The company has not revealed how many of the 500 being laid off will come from The Dallas Morning News, but here's what News CEO

  April 6, 2009

• Free Shaggy: Why One Now-Former News'er Wants to "Run Topless Down the Street"

  Dallas Morning News insiders and the merely curious have no doubt spent the better part of the day watching the comments pile up on the DMNcuts blog, which has documented the layoffs taking place inside 508 Young Street. Condolences have been extended, tempers have flared, those let go have said their good-byes, Bush has been bashed, job openings elsewhere have been mentioned, and even Rod Dreher's made an appearance to assure those so interested he's not the one behind the blog. In all, grim bu

  April 7, 2009

• Dallas News's Jim Moroney Did Attend Newspapers' So-Called "Secret" Meeting

  The Friends of Unfair Park concerned with the state -- and fate -- of the newspaper business are no doubt aware that in a Chicago suburb yesterday, bigwigs, honchos and major-domos from most of the country's biggest news-gathering organizations huddled together to chat about monetizing online content. There's been much consternation over the legality of such a not-secret-swear confab, but we just had one question, as most accounts of the grip-and-grimace feature an incomplete guest list: Did A.H

  May 29, 2009

• Sob Story

  Buzz sheds a tear for 2003

  January 1, 2004

• One Guess

  Popular sandwich meat, rhymes with Moroney

  October 13, 2005

• Bark's Bite

  The DMN should lose the muzzle it has on TV critic Ed Bark

  November 18, 2004

• At the Ripping Point

  Dallas' only daily finds itself losing a war for readers' eyeballs and the heart of its staff

  November 18, 2004

• Paved Over

  Could the proposed Cowboys stadium spell the end for Smirnoff MusicCentre?

  May 6, 2004

• Community Standards

  For the love of money

  July 10, 2003

• Urge to Merge

  Will Belo be bought? Yes. Or no. Either way, you won't be able to tell.

  February 28, 2002

• Mr. Moroney Goes to Washington

  James Moroney IIIDallas Morning News publisher and CEO Jim Moroney will be in D.C. tomorrow for a hearing on "The Future of Journalism," scheduled to kick off at 1:30 p.m. C.S.T. in front of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee's Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, whew. And he'll be joined by an all-star cast that includes no less than David Simon (the former Baltimore Sun writer responsible for, among other television series, Homicide: Life on the

  May 5, 2009

• "Content Matters."

  David Simon, sitting to the left of Dallas Morning News publisher Jim Moroney at today's Senate subcommittee hearing on "The Future of Journalism," edited his prepared testimony. The creator of The Wire left out the part about how, when a newspaper exec complains about how technology is the sole reason for newspapers' demise, folks should "feel free to kick out his teeth," because that newspaper exec is "as fraudulent as the most self-aggrandizing blogger." Nonetheless, the former Baltimore Sun

  May 6, 2009

• Jim Moroney's Clearly No Edgar Winter Fan

  Oooooh, can't wait: We're about 15 minutes away from the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet "Future of Journalism" hearing, where, as we noted yesterday, Dallas Morning News publisher and CEO Jim Moroney will testify alongside The Wire creator David Simon and Arianna Huffington. C-SPAN 3 will carry the entirety of the Sen. John Kerry-led hearing starting at 1:30, but for those who miss it, we'll have Moroney's testimony in its entirety on Unfair Park later today

  May 6, 2009

• News CEO Jim Moroney on His Decision to Close the Paper's Southern Dallas Facility

  ​When A.H. Belo Corporation released its third-quarter financials on Friday, included high in the press release was this note: "As part of the Company's ongoing efforts to realign its business and reduce expenses, The Dallas Morning News will close the packaging facility as it consolidates production operations into a single facility located in Plano, Texas. This consolidation of production facilities should be completed in the first quarter of 2010. The Company has begun the process of market

  November 3, 2009