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The company was organized as a fully owned subsidiary of Belo Corporation on October 1, 2007, then taken public by issuing the new stock to Belo shareholders and starting trade on February 8, 2008. The split was structured so that Belo Corporation was the legal successor of the original company.
While technically this corporate entity was formed in 2008, the organization traces its roots and history back to 1842. The Belo Corporation used the A. H. Belo name from 1926 to 2002 when it was shortened to simply Belo.
In 2016, the company announced that it is planning to leave the Belo Building for The Statler Library, also located downtown. As of 2018, the company website lists 1954 Commerce Street in Dallas as their headquarters address.
The company changed its name and ticker symbol and moved from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq on June 29, 2021, after acknowledging the history tied to their founder, A. H. Belo, a colonel in the Confederate military during the American Civil War, especially given that the company has its origins as early as 1842.
The change was proposed in 2021 by CEO Robert W. Decherd to embrace "the social justice movement underway in America." The name change was approved by company shareholders the same year, with 99% of votes cast.
In July 2025, Hearst Communications announced it had agreed to purchase DallasNews for $14 a share. The sale is expected to close at the 4th quarter of 2025. A few weeks later Alden Global Capital submitted a competing bid for $16.50 a share, which was rejected by the DallasNews board. Alden then submitted a letter threatening to take their offer directly to DallasNews shareholders.
On September 24, 2025, DallasNews Corporation announced that it had completed its merger with Hearst.
From Wikipedia’s article on DallasNews Corporation, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.7