DONALD F. (SKIP) CASS, JR.

Donald F. (Skip) Cass, Jr. currently serves as executive vice president, overseeing A. H. Belo's enterprise-wide Internet, technology and business development activities. From February 2007 through the completion of the spin-off transaction, Cass served as Belo Corp.'s executive vice president overseeing its Internet and business development activities. Prior to that, Cass was executive vice president/Media Operations managing Belo's television stations and cable news operations in Houston, Phoenix, St. Louis, San Antonio and Tucson, as well as the operations of two Belo newspapers, The Providence Journal and The Press-Enterprise. From February 2000 though January 2006, he served as a senior vice president of the Company, with responsibility for Corporate Communications from January 2000 through December 2001, and operating responsibility for The Press-Enterprise (January 2000 through January 2006) and Belo's television and cable news operations in Arizona (January 2002 through January 2006).

Cass worked as a sales account executive for Belo's WWL-TV in New Orleans from 1988 until 1991 while he was a law student. From 1991 until 1993, he practiced law as an associate in commercial litigation and communications law at the firm of Bordelon, Hamlin, Theriot & Hardy in New Orleans. While practicing law, he served under Ashton Hardy, former general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission. From 1993 to 1996, Cass served as director of operations for Newswatch on Channel 15, a cable news joint venture between WWL and Cox Cable in New Orleans. In that role, he helped to develop the nation's first local cable news service programmed by a broadcast television station.

In 1996, Cass was named manager/Finance and Administration of Belo's Broadcast Division. He was promoted in 1997 to director/Cable News Operations. In that position, he was instrumental in the planning phase of Texas Cable News (TXCN) and served as project manager for design and construction of the TXCN facility. In May 1998, he was appointed vice president and General Manager of TXCN, which was launched in January 1999.

Cass earned a bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism from Louisiana State University in 1987 and graduated from Loyola University School of Law in 1991. He is a 2004 graduate of the Stanford Executive Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and serves on the Executive Committee of the Stanford Business School Alumni Association Board of Directors. Cass remains a licensed member of the Louisiana State Bar Association.

Cass and his wife, Christi, have two children.