When executives at Belo, the parent company of Dallas’ Only Daily Newspaper, announced the executives who will run the company after its spinoff next year, a couple of names were missing: current editor Robert Mong and current managing editor George Rodrigue (Jim Schutze’s favorite News employee).
The Belo-ologists among us have pondered this development for a week. We have sent emails, pored over tea leaves, poked at chicken entrails and otherwise tried to figure out what this means. All of the people named are business types; none of them have anything to do with the editorial operation. This does not seem to bode well for the news side of the business.
And this is what we came up with:
