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                                                               EXHIBIT 10.3 (21)

                               SEVENTH AMENDMENT
                                       TO
                             A. H. BELO CORPORATION
                      EMPLOYEE SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT PLAN


         A. H. Belo Corporation, a Delaware corporation, pursuant to
authorization of its Board of Directors, adopts the following amendments to the
A. H. Belo Corporation Employee Savings and Investment Plan (the "Plan").

         1.      The first sentence of Section 1.8 of the Plan ("Compensation")
is amended in its entirety to read as follows:

                 "Compensation" means the earnings paid to an Employee by the
         Participating Employers which are subject to reporting on Internal
         Revenue Service Form W-2, excluding, however, reimbursements for
         moving expenses, automobile allowances and any earnings paid to the
         Employee in a form other than cash.

         2.      Clause (iv) of Section 2.2(a) of the Plan (relating to
employees ineligible to participate) is amended in its entirety to read as
follows:

                 (iv) he is a leased employee required to be treated as an
                 Employee under Code section 414(n) or he is classified by a
                 Participating Employer as an independent contractor whose
                 compensation for services is reported on a form other than
                 Form W-2 or any successor form for reporting wages paid to
                 employees;

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         3.      Section 3.1(a) of the Plan ("Amount of Deferral
Contributions") is amended by the addition of the following sentence:

                 Effective with the first payroll period beginning on or after
                 January 1, 1995, the amount of a Participant's Deferral
                 Contributions will not be less than 2% nor more than 15% of
                 his Compensation for each payroll period.

         4.      Sections 3.2(a) and 3.2(b) of the Plan are amended in their
entirety to read as follows:

                 (a)      Amount of Matching Contributions.  Prior to January
         1, 1995, the Participating Employers will pay to the Trustee as a
         matching contribution for each Plan Year an amount equal to 50% of
         each Participant's Deferral Contributions, but only to the extent that
         the Participant's Deferral Contributions do not exceed 6% of the
         Participant's Compensation for the Plan Year (excluding Compensation
         earned before the Participant was eligible to participate under
         Section 2.1).  Effective with the first payroll period beginning on or
         after January 1, 1995, the Participating Employers will pay to the
         Trustee as a matching contribution for each payroll period an amount
         equal to 50% of each Participant's Deferral Contributions, but only to
         the extent that the Participant's Deferral Contributions do not exceed
         6% of the Participant's Compensation for the payroll period.  In
         addition, each Participating Employer may make an additional matching
         contribution for any Plan Year if authorized by its board of
         directors, but no Participating Employer will be required to make an
         additional matching contribution for any Plan Year.  Participating
         Employer matching contributions may be made in cash or in shares of
         Company Stock or both.





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                 (b)      Calculation of Matching Contributions.  For Plan
         Years beginning before January 1, 1995, Participating Employer
         matching contributions initially will be calculated on the basis of
         Deferral Contributions and Compensation for each payroll period within
         the Plan Year.  Except as otherwise set forth in Section 3.2(c), as of
         one or more dates within each Plan Year beginning before January 1,
         1995, the Participating Employers will make an additional matching
         contribution for a Participant to the extent necessary to cause the
         matching contributions for such Participant for the Plan Year to be
         equal to the amount required by Section 3.2(a) calculated on the basis
         of the Participant's Deferral Contributions and Compensation for the
         entire Plan Year (excluding Compensation earned before the Participant
         was eligible to participate under Section 2.1).  For Plan Years
         beginning on and after January 1, 1995, Participating Employer
         matching contributions will be calculated solely on the basis of
         Deferral Contributions and Compensation for each payroll period within
         the Plan Year.

         5.      Section 3.2(d) of the Plan is amended in its entirety to read
                 as follows:

                 (d)  Participants Ineligible for Matching Contributions.
         Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section, (i) no
         matching contributions will be made for any payroll period beginning
         on or after April 1, 1994, with respect to any Employee who is
         employed by DFW Suburban Newspapers, Inc. and (ii) no matching
         contributions will be made for any payroll period beginning before
         January 1, 1995, with respect to any Employee who is employed by
         WWL-TV, Inc.





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         6.      Section 4.2 of the Plan is amended in its entirety to read as
follows:

                 4.2      Allocation of Contributions and Forfeitures.  Each
         Deferral Contribution made by a Participating Employer on behalf of a
         Participant will be allocated by the Committee to the Participant's
         Deferral Contribution Account.  Prior to 1995, each Participating
         Employer matching contribution made with respect to a Plan Year and
         all forfeitures arising during that Plan Year will be allocated by the
         Committee to the Matching Contribution Accounts of Participants
         employed by that Participating Employer in the ratio that the Deferral
         Contributions made on behalf of each such Participant for the Plan
         Year bear to the total Deferral Contributions made on behalf of all
         such Participants for the Plan Year, taking into account for purposes
         of this ratio only Deferral Contributions that do not exceed 6% of
         each Participant's Compensation.  Effective with the first payroll
         period beginning on and after January 1, 1995, each Participating
         Employer matching contribution made with respect to a payroll period
         and all forfeitures will be allocated by the Committee to the Matching
         Contribution Accounts of Participants employed by that Participating
         Employer in the ratio that the Deferral Contributions made on behalf
         of each such Participant for each payroll period in the Plan Year bear
         to the total Deferral Contributions made on behalf of all such
         Participants for each such payroll period, taking into account for
         purposes of this ratio only Deferral Contributions that do not exceed
         6% of each Participant's Compensation for the payroll period.

         7.      Clause (i) of Section 6.5(c) of the Plan (relating to the term
of participant loans) is amended in its entirety to read as follows:





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                 (i) no loan will be for a term of longer than five years;

         8.      The second sentence of Section 6.5(g) of the Plan (relating to
the investment of loan repayments) is amended in its entirety to read as
follows:

                 All payments with respect to a loan will be credited to the
                 borrowing Participant's Accounts and will be invested in the
                 investment funds under the Trust Agreement in accordance with
                 the Participant's latest investment directions pursuant to
                 Section 3.5.

         9.      Article 6 of the Plan ("Distributions to Participants") is
amended by renumbering Section 6.8 as Section 6.9 and inserting the following
new section immediately after Section 6.7:

                 6.8      Direct Rollovers:  (a)  Notwithstanding any other
         provision of the Plan, for distributions made on or after January 1,
         1993, a Distributee (as hereinafter defined) may elect, at any time
         and in the manner prescribed by the Committee, to have any portion of
         an Eligible Rollover Distribution (as hereinafter defined) paid
         directly to an Eligible Retirement Plan (as hereinafter defined)
         specified by the Distributee.

                          (b)     An Eligible Rollover Distribution is any
         distribution of all or any portion of the balance to the credit of the
         Distributee, except that an Eligible Rollover Distribution does not
         include (i) any distribution that is one of a series of substantially
         equal periodic payments





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         (not less frequently than annually) made for the life or life
         expectancy of the Distributee or the joint lives or life expectancies
         of the Distributee and the Distributee's designated beneficiary, or
         for a specified period of ten years or more, (ii) any distribution to
         the extent such distribution is required by Section 401(a)(9) of the
         Code, and (iii) the portion of any distribution that is not includible
         in gross income (determined without regard to the exclusion for net
         unrealized appreciation with respect to employer securities).

                          (c)  An Eligible Retirement Plan is an individual
         retirement account described in Section 408(a) of the Code, an
         individual retirement annuity described in Section 408(b) of the Code,
         an annuity plan described in Section 403(a) of the Code, or a
         qualified trust described in Section 401(a) of the Code that is a
         defined contribution plan within the meaning of Section 414(i) of the
         Code, that accepts the Distributee's Eligible Rollover Distribution.
         However, in the case of an Eligible Rollover Distribution to a
         Participant's surviving Spouse, an Eligible Retirement Plan is an
         individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity.

                          (d)  A Distributee includes a Participant, the
         Participant's Spouse, or a Participant's former spouse who is an
         alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order, as defined
         in Section 414(p) of the Code.

         10.     The last sentence of Section 10.2(n) of the Plan (relating to
the definition of Includable Compensation for purposes of the annual addition
limitations under Code section 415) is deleted and replaced by the following
sentences:

         The annual Includable Compensation of an Employee taken into account
         for any purpose for any Plan Year will not exceed





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         $200,000 for any Plan Year ending before January 1, 1994, as adjusted
         in regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and will
         not exceed $150,000 for any Plan Year beginning after December 31,
         1993, as adjusted in regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the
         Treasury.  For purposes of applying the $200,000 and $150,000 limits
         set forth in the preceding sentence, if an Employee is a Highly
         Compensated Employee who is either (i) a 5-percent owner, determined
         in accordance with Code section 414(q) and the Treasury Regulations
         promulgated thereunder or (ii) one of the 10 most  highly compensated
         Employees ranked on the basis of Compensation paid by the Controlled
         Group during the year, such Highly Compensated Employee and the
         members of his family (as hereafter defined) will be treated as a
         single employee and the Compensation of each member of the family will
         be aggregated with the Compensation of the Highly Compensated
         Employee.  The limitation on Compensation will be allocated among such
         Highly Compensated Employee and his family members in proportion to
         each individual's Compensation.  For purposes of this Section 10.2(n),
         the  term "family" means an Employee's spouse and any lineal
         descendants who are under age 19 at the end of the Plan Year in
         question.

         11.     Section 10.2(u) of the Plan (relating to the definition of
"Compensation" for discrimination testing purposes) is amended in its entirety
to read as follows:

                 (u)      "Compensation" means the wages as defined in Code
         section 3401(a) for purposes of income tax withholding at the source
         (but determined without regard to any rules that limit the
         remuneration included in wages based on the nature or location of the
         employment or services performed) that are paid to a Participant by
         the Participating Employers.  In addition, Compensation includes any
         contributions made by the Participating Employers on behalf of an
         Employee pursuant to a deferral election under the Plan or under any
         other employee benefit plan containing a cash or deferred





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         arrangement under Code section 401(k) and any amounts that would have
         been received as cash but for an election to receive benefits under a
         cafeteria plan meeting the requirements of Code section 125.  The
         annual Compensation of an Employee taken into account for any purpose
         will not exceed $200,000 for any Plan Year ending before January 1,
         1994, as adjusted in regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the
         Treasury, and will not exceed $150,000 for any Plan Year beginning
         after December 31, 1993, as adjusted in regulations prescribed by the
         Secretary of the Treasury.  For purposes of applying the $200,000 and
         $150,000 limits set forth in the preceding sentence, if an Employee is
         a Highly Compensated Employee who is either (i) a 5-percent owner,
         determined in accordance with Code section 414(q) and the Treasury
         Regulations promulgated thereunder or (ii) one of the 10 most highly
         compensated Employees ranked on the basis of Compensation paid by the
         Controlled Group during the year, such Highly Compensated Employee and
         the members of his family (as hereafter defined) will be treated as a
         single employee and the Compensation of each member of the family will
         be aggregated with the Compensation of the Highly Compensated
         Employee.  The limitation on Compensation will be allocated among such
         Highly Compensated Employee and his family members in proportion to
         each individual's Compensation.  For purposes of this Section 10.2(u),
         the  term "family" means an Employee's spouse and any lineal
         descendants who are under age 19 at the end of the Plan Year in
         question.

         12.     Section 16.7 of the Plan is amended in its entirety to read as
follows:

                 16.7     Governing Law.  The Plan will be construed and
         governed in all respects in accordance with applicable federal law
         and, to the extent not preempted by such federal law, in accordance
         with the laws of the State of Texas, including without limitation, the
         Texas statute of





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         limitations, but without giving effect to the principles of conflicts
         of laws of such State.

         13.     Appendix A to the Plan ("Participating Employers") is amended
to delete Dallas - Ft. Worth Suburban Newspapers, Inc. as a Participating
Employer as of April 1, 1994, and to add as Participating Employers the
following Controlled Group Members: Belo Production, Inc. (as of April 1,
1994); DFW Printing Company, Inc. (as of April 1, 1994); DFW Suburban
Newspapers, Inc. (for the period beginning on April 1, 1994, and ending on
December 31, 1994); and WWL-TV, Inc. (as of June 1, 1994).

         14.     The amendments set forth in paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 12
will be effective as of January 1, 1995.  The amendments set forth in paragraph
7, 8 and 9 will be effective as of January 1, 1993.  The amendment set forth in
paragraphs 10 and 11 will be effective as of January 1, 1994.  The amendment
set forth in paragraph 13 will be effective as of April 1, 1994.

         Executed this 14th day of December, 1994.


                             A. H. BELO CORPORATION



                            By /s/ Michael J. McCarthy
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