Barbara Cox Anthony, Cox Media Heir, 84
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Barbara Cox Anthony, 84, Cox Media Heir, Dies
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HONOLULU [Hawaii], May 29 (AP) - Barbara Cox Anthony, an heir to the
Cox media fortune, based in Atlanta [Georgia], died on Monday [May 28,
2007] at her home here. She was 84.
Ms. Anthony was a principal owner of Cox Enterprises, which reported
that she died after an extended illness.
Ms. Anthony and her sister, Anne Cox Chambers, inherited the company
from their older brother, James M. Cox Jr., who died in 1974. Their
father, James M. Cox, a former governor of Ohio, had founded the
company. Ms. Anthony's third husband, Garner Anthony, was chairman
from 1974 until 1988. Her son, James C. Kennedy, is the current
chairman and chief executive.
In March, Forbes magazine estimated Ms. Anthony's assets at $12.6
billion.
The company's holdings include Cox Communications, the cable
television distributor; 17 daily newspapers, including The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution; 15 television stations, and majority ownership
of 80 radio stations.
Ms. Anthony, a philanthropist who lived in the Diamond Head area of
Honolulu, was chairwoman of Dayton Newspapers in Ohio and a member of
the Cox Enterprises board.
Besides her son, survivors include her daughter, Blair Parry-Okeden,
of Australia; five grandchildren and four stepchildren
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/business/media/30anthony.html?ref=obituaries
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Louis Epstein
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: Barbara Cox Anthony, 84, Cox Media Heir, Dies
Confirming...the New York Times satisfied itself with that brief
AP obituary as its coverage of the death of Mrs. Anthony.
The death of their own Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger made their front page.
In the Dayton Daily News,where Mrs. Anthony followed her father and
brother as chairman (her son heads parent Cox Enterprises),she had
saturation coverage,and I wouldn't be surprised if Mrs. Sulzberger
made do with a sidebar if not AP boilerplate.
Among the Dayton coverage was a photo of the Cox Enterprises board,
which had the two sisters who owned the company lock stock and barrel
sitting on a couch,and nine men standing around them.
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