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Newspaper Publisher A. H. Belo Corporation Announces Resignation of Director Douglas G. Carlston
Friday 12. November 2010 - Newspaper publisher A. H. Belo Corporation (NYSE: AHC) today announced that Douglas G. Carlston, a Class I Director of the Company since December 2007, resigned at the conclusion of yesterdays meeting of the Board of Directors. Carlstons term was due to expire at the Companys annual meeting of shareholders in 2012.
Carlston joined Belo Corp.s Board of Directors in July 2007 and subsequently became a director of A. H. Belo Corporation when Belo Corp. spun off its newspapers in February 2008.
Carlston said, “It has been a high privilege to serve on the board of one of Americas great media companies. Changes in my personal situation make frequent absences from home more difficult, and I need to alter my outside business commitments accordingly. I leave knowing that A. H. Belo is in good hands and that the Company will continue its impressive rebound from the economic doldrums which affected all U. S. newspapers in 2008 and 2009.”
Robert W. Decherd, chairman, president and Chief Executive Officer, said, “Dougs counsel on matters related to the rapidly changing competitive environment for media companies, particularly in digital forms, has contributed greatly to our strategic, financial and operational successes over the past three years. We will miss Dougs active participation but fully understand and support his desire to devote more time to his family.”
Carlston has been chairman of the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors since the Companys spin-off from Belo Corp., and will be succeeded in that role by Ronald D. McCray.