A.H. Belo Corp.
A.H. Belo says in its second-quarter earnings report that it will increase its investment in 508 Digital, "a new division at The Dallas Morning News that provides digital marketing solutions for underserved small and medium-sized businesses," from $3 million to $4 million this year. It expects to make $1.5 million from 508 Digital.

On the other hand, the company has scaled back a $4 million  advertising and marketing campaign for the newspaper. It now plans to spend $2 million to $2.5 million on that this year.

Like other companies, A.H. Belo's print advertising is down more than its digital revenue is up. Overall revenue didn't decline as much as it did in the first quarter, however. Second-quarter earnings were $262,000, a margin of 0.25 percent. (more...)

WPRI
A.H. Belo CEO and chairman Robert Decherd will get a 25 percent raise, to $600,000; Jim Moroney, executive vice president of A.H. Belo and publisher of the Dallas Morning News, will get a 15.5 percent raise, boosting his base pay to $540,000. The pay hikes, Ted Nesi reports, come "despite a 45% decline in [A.H. Belo's] stock price during 2011, the fourth straight year it lost money." The company says its top executives have more work now after others left and weren't replaced. John Hill, president of the Providence Newspaper Guild union, said it's "galling and insulting" to offer raises less than a year after buying out and laying off employees at The Providence Journal. The Morning News laid off some of its staff in September. || Related: New York Times Co. hires Spencer Stuart to look for new CEO (Bloomberg) | Gannett says separating CEO and chairman roles is better for shareholders (Gannett Blog) || Earlier: Craig Dubow gets $32 million severance package from Gannett (Associated Press) | Janet Robinson's exit package from New York Times exceeds $21 million (Bloomberg)

WPRI.com
A.H. Belo CEO Robert Decherd’s total compensation more than tripled to $1.87 million in 2010, up from $499,180 in 2009, according to WPRI.com calculations based on Monday's SEC filing. Dallas Morning News publisher James Moroney was paid $1.3 million in 2010, up from $478,090 in 2009.

Providence Business News
The publisher of the Dallas Morning News, Providence Journal and other papers reported a 6 percent drop in advertising revenue in the fourth quarter. Display advertising revenue was down 11 percent, classified revenue fell 8.8 percent, and digital revenue dropped 0.9 percent. || Read the release.

The Dallas Morning News’ new iPad app hit the iTunes Store on Wednesday, two days after the paper’s upgraded iPhone app was unveiled.

The two apps are apparently the first to be powered by The New York Times’ Press … Read more

Nieman Journalism Lab
As eager as print media executives are to sell content on digital tablets, Ken Doctor has a question that may keep them up at night:

“What if newspaper readers, clearly pivotal early adopters of the iPad, decide

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The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News will launch new iPad and iPhone apps this month in conjunction with plans to move to a paid content model in February.

Brendan Case reports that the new initiative will launch on … Read more