---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001413898-24-000013"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001413898"
company_name: "DallasNews Corp"
filed_at: "2024-03-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T14:53:16.736125+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# DallasNews Corporation promotes Cathy Collins to CFO, Gary Cobleigh named principal accounting officer

## Summary
- Cathy Collins appointed CFO effective March 18, 2024; annual base salary set at $285,000.
- Collins target bonus for 2024: $30,000; long-term cash incentive $30,000 vesting 50% each Dec 2024 and 2025.
- Mary Kathryn Murray remains as President; Collins reports to Murray.
- Gary Cobleigh appointed principal accounting officer; annual base salary $275,636.
- Collins served as VP Finance since Aug 2021; Cobleigh served as VP & Controller since Aug 2021.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001413898-24-000013
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001413898
- company_name: DallasNews Corp
- filed_at: 2024-03-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1413898/000141389824000013/0001413898-24-000013-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1413898/000141389824000013/daln-20240318x8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001413898-24-000013.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Mary Kathryn Murray changed role as principal accounting officer at DallasNews Corp.
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: the Board appointed Gary Cobleigh as the Company’s principal accounting officer, succeeding Ms. Murray.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1413898/000141389824000013/0001413898-24-000013-index.htm
- Executive change
  Cathy Collins was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at DallasNews Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of DallasNews Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Cathy Collins as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1413898/000141389824000013/0001413898-24-000013-index.htm
- Executive change
  Mary Kathryn Murray changed role as Chief Financial Officer at DallasNews Corp.
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Ms. Collins succeeds Mary Kathryn Murray, who has served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer since April 2015. Ms. Murray will continue to serve as President
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1413898/000141389824000013/0001413898-24-000013-index.htm
- Executive change
  Gary Cobleigh was appointed as principal accounting officer at DallasNews Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: the Board appointed Gary Cobleigh as the Company’s principal accounting officer, succeeding Ms. Murray.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1413898/000141389824000013/0001413898-24-000013-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.