Article: Red dawn in Dallas: the Morning News has a publisher who wants a 'revolution.' Tough investigative reporting is one of his calls to arms. Will a wary newsroom rise up?(On The Job)

On the morning of January 22, more than 800 employees of The Dallas Morning News filed into a hotel ballroom to hear the publisher deliver his annual state-of-the-newspaper talk. Jim Moroney strode to the podium, a gangly forty-seven-year-old knot of energy in a powder-blue shirt and a red-patterned tie. In years past his presentation had been brief, his goals modest. Not this time.

The Morning News, he declared, was like an outwardly healthy person with serious physical problems. "The patient may appear healthy but, frankly, he's slowly dying." Over the past three years profitability had dropped 35 percent, he said. Home delivery had declined 10 percent since ...

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