Word: coxing
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Lately a number of newspapers, from the late James Cox chain's Atlanta Constitution (TIME, July 29) to John S. Knight's Detroit Free Press, have set out to add greater depth and range to their business sections. The New York Times, which has the biggest (21 reporters) and most expert business staff of any general-circulation U.S. daily, drills business-side recruits by Financial Editor Jack Forrest's four-word manual: "Get behind the handout." The result is a flow of economic reporting that widens out from the Times's fat business section and nourishes...
...Newsman Cox was born March 31, 1870, in an Ohio hamlet named Jacksonburg ("there must," he cracked, "have been Democrats in the vicinity"). He lived up to his Algeresque origins by delivering newspapers, quit school at 16 to become a teacher, soon took a job as cub-of-all-work on the old Middletown Signal. He always had "a passionate interest in newspapers." Turning passion into profit, he put the Dayton Daily News into the black in less than five years after he bought the paper (for $26,000) in 1898, bought the Dayton Journal-Herald (current circ...
...Trailsend. Publisher Cox allowed his papers to keep their own personalities, gave free rein to his local publishers-who sometimes showed more concern for the cash register than the crusading journalism for which James Cox stood. (All Cox dailies are Democratic except the pro-Ike Dayton Journal-Herald and Springfield Sun.) Overall management of the seven-paper group and a string of allied TV and radio stations fell increasingly to James Cox Jr., the twice-married publisher's son. But the governor still showed up at his Dayton office, held frequent long-distance powwows with Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph...
...common with the New York Times's Chief Washington Correspondent James B. ("Scotty") Reston, who used to be Cox's caddy in Dayton...
Died. James Middleton Cox, 87, longtime newspaper publisher (Dayton Daily News, Miami Daily News, Atlanta Constitution, etc.), governor of Ohio (1913-15, 1917-21), and, with Franklin D. Roosevelt as running mate, the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President in 1920; in Dayton (see PRESS...