[2] In 2016, the company announced that it is planning to leave the Belo Building for The Statler Library, also located downtown.
[4] 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."
While technically this corporate entity was formed in 2008, the organization traces its roots and history back to 1842.
Under increased advertising pressures and laws prohibiting media monopolies in urban markets, the newspapers were ultimately absorbed into The Dallas Morning News.