James (Jim) Moroney, III

James (Jim) Moroney, III (Dallas, Texas) ) has served as executive vice president of A. H. Belo Corporation with responsibilities for its three newspaper operating companies in Dallas, Providence, RI and Riverside, CA since 2007. He has served as publisher and chief executive officer of The Dallas Morning News since 2001. In April 2004, Editor & Publisher selected him as Publisher of the Year for his accomplishments at The Dallas Morning News. He had served as president of Belo Interactive, Inc. since its inception in May 1999 and is a member of Belo’s Management Committee.

Moroney began his broadcast career as a sales trainee at WFAA-TV in Dallas in 1978. In 1985 he became general sales manager of KOTV in Tulsa. He returned to Dallas in 1989 as controller of Belo and subsequently served as assistant to the president of the company’s broadcast division from 1990 to 1992. Moroney was promoted to president and general manager of KOTV in Tulsa in January 1993. In November 1993 he became vice president of the Broadcast Division. In January 1997, Moroney was promoted to president/Television Group. In July 1998, he was named Executive Vice President, Belo, responsible for the company’s M & A, finance and investor relations activities. In August 1999, Moroney became the founding president of Belo Interactive, Belo’s Internet subsidiary.

Moroney has served on the board of the Television Bureau of Advertising and numerous civic organizations, including Goodwill Industries in Dallas and Tulsa, the United Way of Tulsa, Catholic Charities of Tulsa, Junior Achievement of Tulsa and the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa. He presently serves on the boards of the Cistercian Preparatory School in Dallas, the State Fair of Texas, the Newspaper Association of America, the American Press Institute and the Advisory Board of the College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Belo Corporation.

A native Texan, Moroney graduated from Stanford University in 1978 with a B.A. in American Studies. In 1983, he received his M.B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin.

Jim Moroney and his wife, Barbara, have five children.