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                                                              EXHIBIT 10.2(1)(e)

                                FOURTH AMENDMENT
                                       TO
                             A. H. BELO CORPORATION
                      EMPLOYEE SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT PLAN
                     (AS RESTATED EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1998)


     A. H. Belo Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), pursuant to
authority of the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors, adopts the
following amendments to the A. H. Belo Corporation Employee Savings and
Investment Plan (the "Plan"):

     1. Section 1.31 of the Plan ("Year of Service") is amended by the addition
of the following paragraphs:

     An Employee who became an employee of KTVK, Inc., a Delaware corporation,
     on November 1, 1999, and who immediately prior to that date was an employee
     of MAC America Communications, Inc., an Arizona corporation, will receive
     credit for an Hour of Service for each hour for which such Employee was
     paid or entitled to be paid by MAC America Communications, Inc., an Arizona
     corporation, or any of its affiliates determined in accordance with Section
     1.17 and will receive credit for his period of employment with MAC America
     Communications, Inc., an Arizona corporation, or any of its affiliates,
     calculated in the same manner as if it had been employment with a
     Controlled Group Member.

     An Employee who was an employee of Denton Publishing Company, a Texas
     corporation, on July 1, 1999, will receive credit for an Hour of Service
     for each hour for which such Employee was paid or entitled to be paid by
     Denton Publishing Company, a Texas corporation, or any of its affiliates
     determined in accordance with Section 1.17 and will receive credit for his
     period of employment with Denton Publishing Company, a Texas corporation,
     or any of its affiliates calculated in the same manner as if it had been
     employment with a Controlled Group Member.

     2. Section 2.1 of the Plan ("Eligibility to Participate") is amended by the
addition of the following paragraphs:

     (xi) Each Employee of KTVK, Inc., a Delaware corporation, who on October
     31, 1999, was an employee of MAC America Communications, Inc. an Arizona
     corporation, and who was eligible to participate in the section 401(k) plan
     sponsored by MAC America Communications, Inc., an Arizona corporation, will
     be eligible to participate in the Plan as of the first payroll period
     beginning after October 31, 1999.


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     (xii) Each Employee who was eligible to participate in the Denton
     Publishing Company Retirement Plan on December 31, 1999, will be eligible
     to participate in the Plan as of the first payroll period that includes
     January 1, 2000.

     3. The second paragraph of Section 4.1 of the Plan, relating to amounts
transferred from other plans, is amended in its entirety to read as follows:

     Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, any amounts
     transferred to the Plan on behalf of an Employee from the Journal Qualified
     Compensation Deferral Plan, the Journal Broadcasting 401(k) Plan, the
     Press-Enterprise Tax Deferred Savings Plan, the Gleaner and Journal
     Publishing Co. 401(k) Retirement Plan or the Denton Publishing Company
     Retirement Plan (each a "Transferror Plan") will be allocated as follows:
     (i) amounts held in the Employee's compensation deferral account under a
     Transferror Plan will be allocated to the Employee's Deferral Contribution
     Account; (ii) amounts held in the Employee's employer matching contribution
     account under a Transferror Plan will be allocated to the Employee's
     Matching Contribution Account; (iii) amounts held in the Employee's profit
     sharing account under a Transferror Plan will be allocated to the
     Employee's Profit Sharing Account; and (iv) amounts held in the Employee's
     after-tax account or rollover account under a Transferror Plan will be
     allocated to the Employee's Transfer Account.

     4. Appendix A to the Plan ("Participating Employers") is amended to remove
the following employer as a Participating Employer in the Plan as of the date
indicated:

                                  KASA-TV, Inc.
                            (After October 29, 1999)

     5. Appendix A to the Plan is further amended to add the following employers
as Participating Employers as of the dates indicated:

                                   KTVK, Inc.
                            (As of November 1, 1999)

                            Denton Publishing Company
                             (As of January 1, 2000)


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     Executed at Dallas, Texas, this 16th day of December, 1999.


                              A. H. BELO CORPORATION



                              By:
                              Name: Marian Spitzberg
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                              Title: Secretary
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