A major U.S. publisher has signed a five-year deal to update its technological infrastructure with a top name in information technology, according to PR Newswire.

The deal expands a pre-existing alliance through which Belo outsourced help desk and similar back-end functions to IBM about which Broadcast Engineering reported in 2006. Belo Corp. publishes daily print editions of The Dallas Morning News, The Providence Journal, The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) and the Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Texas).

The company also publishes specialty publications targeting young adults and the fast-growing Hispanic market, including Quick and Al Dia in Dallas/Fort Worth, and El D and La Prensa in Riverside. Belo also operates 30 websites associated with a variety of media outlets it owns.