Belo Lowers Inflated Circulation of 'News'

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DALLAS The Belo Corp. has launched an investigation of its flagship The Dallas Morning News and dismissed the newspaper’s top circulation executive after correcting inflated figures.

Belo’s other large papers, The Providence Journal in Providence, R.I., and The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif., also face circulation reviews, but the media company said those publications do not use the same system as the Morning News and are not expected to show revisions.

Belo officials said they expect to reimburse advertisers who paid for circulation that was estimated 1.5



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