Washington Business Journal
Published: 12-03-08
Cox Newspapers will shut down its D.C.-based national and international news bureau on April 1 2009.
The Atlanta-based media company said the move is related to pending sales of several Cox newspaper properties and the declining newspaper industry.
Cox said its metro newspapers The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Dayton Daily News will manage their own Washington and international newsgathering independently through dedicated correspondents in D.C. with after the national bureau is closed. The D.C. bureau has provided an average of two stories a day to the AJC Cox noted.
“The Washington news bureau and its chief Andy Alexander have an impressive and storied history in Washington and in our company” said Sandy Schwartz Cox Newspapers president in a prepared statement.
“For more than 30 years the reporters of this bureau have broken an untold number of stories that have had an impact on the lives of our readers in cities and towns all across the U.S. The Cox Washington bureau has won or shared virtually every major American journalism award including the Pulitzer Prize.”
Cox Television will continue to run its Washington broadcasting news bureau.
