DAYTON, Ohio -- Cox Media Group, Inc. announced today the appointment of Alex Taylor as group vice president for its Dayton and Louisville, Ky. markets, effective immediately. This is part of Cox Media Group’s new operating concept that reorganizes its media businesses by maximizing the expertise and talents of its media professionals across its portfolio of newspapers, radio and television businesses.

This model is a departure from the company’s traditional grouping of businesses solely by medium (newspapers, radio and television), and it responds to rapidly changing consumer and advertiser preferences.

Taylor is publisher of The Palm Beach Post, and his replacement will be named in the coming weeks. Taylor will report to Doug Franklin, executive vice president of Atlanta-based Cox Media Group and a former president and CEO of Cox Ohio Publishing.

In his new role, Taylor will oversee Cox’s newspaper, television and radio properties in the Dayton market and the publications in its surrounding areas. Additionally, he will have oversight for Cox’s four FM radio stations in Louisville, Ky. This radio group will report to Donna Hall, a direct report of Taylor’s who also manages Cox’s four stations in Dayton. In his new role, Taylor will encourage collaboration of ideas, skills and strengths to provide unique sales opportunities and solutions for advertisers across multiple media platforms. The newspaper, television and radio properties will continue their existing independent news and editorial functions.

“Alex is a media expert who brings fresh thinking to the table,” said Franklin. “Dayton is a key market for our new business model as Cox develops into a fully-integrated media company. As the boundaries between traditional and new media merge, it’s important to have leaders like Alex in place who can think broadly across the media landscape.”

Prior to his position at The Post, Taylor served as publisher of The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, Colo. and as vice president and business manager at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. During his career with Cox, Taylor also has served as an advertising executive, reporter and editor at various properties.

Cox Enterprises, parent company of Cox Media Group, began in Dayton in 1898 with James M. Cox’s purchase of the Daily Evening (now Daily) News. Cox served three terms as Governor of his native state of Ohio from 1913-19, and in 1920 he was the Democratic nominee for U.S. President with a young Franklin D. Roosevelt as his running mate. More than 110 years after the company’s start, Governor Cox’s great-grandson, Taylor, will lead Cox Enterprises’ Dayton and Southwest Ohio properties. Today, Cox Enterprises posts revenues in excess of $15 billion.

About Cox Media Group
Cox Media Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises, is an integrated broadcasting, publishing and digital media company that includes the national advertising rep firms of Cox Reps. With revenues exceeding $1.5 billion, the company operations include 15 broadcast television stations and 1 local cable channel, 86 radio stations, four metro newspapers and more than a dozen non-daily publications, and more than 100 digital services.

Cox Media Group’s operations in Ohio include: Dayton Daily News, Fairfield Echo, JournalNews, Springfield News-Sun, The Middletown Journal, Oxford Press, Pulse-Journal and the Western Star; WHIO-TV, a CBS affiliate; AM 1290, 95.7FM News Talk Radio WHIO, K99.1FM and 95.3 The Eagle.